House Republican comes out and says it: Forcing tax cheats to pay up would 'cost' them billions [View all]
Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace, inflicted on us by the state of South Carolina, has been running a bold new online ad condemning Democratic plans to boost funding for the Internal Revenue Service. Why, you might ask?
"Biden's policy will double the size of the IRS at the cost of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes. We should stabilize our nation's economy first."
While @z3dster has done us the solid of parsing out what the hell Mace's word shrapnel was meant to actually mean, it's still worth stewing on that odd language. "At the cost of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes?" At the ... cost? But going after tax cheats is widely recognized as being a net federal win, because just a little money allocated to investigating the most prolific tax-dodgers results in much larger revenues when the dodged taxes actually get paid, soooh. Ooooooh.
Right.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/29/2066671/-Rep-Nancy-Mace-opposes-IRS-reform-because-it-would-cost-tax-cheats-billions-of-dollars