Sen. Rob Portman says increased IRS enforcement nixed as way to pay for infrastructure plan

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Sen. Rob Portman, the GOP’s lead negotiator for a bipartisan infrastructure bill, says lawmakers nixed increased IRS enforcement as a proposed way to pay for the package.

said Sunday that lawmakers had nixed increased IRS enforcement as a proposed way to pay for the package.

roads, bridges and public transit, so they can formally begin the $3.5 trillion party-line bill before a scheduled monthlong August recess. One looming obstacle is the score from the Congressional Budget Office, which will test whether the financing proposals sufficiently pay for the bill.

 

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GOP stands for 'law & order' only if the law applies to those of lesser means. Don't dare to enforce laws for those with wealth, i.e. the donor class. IRS needs resources to fight the tax lawyers of the rich.

If the GOP doesn't care about enforcing the tax laws, change them. That way the little fish stop being the only ones prosecuted for tax crimes.

two kinds of stupid in one convenient carry pack™!

The gop doesn’t plan on doing anything.. they never do

Rule of Law party. Enforcement be damned.

No wonder Manchin did a 180.

In fairness, he might not understand that revenue is used to pay expenses.

Another Lucy and the football trick, so how many times that it takes of their moving the ball, to realize that they are not in the game.

So 1 trillion a year goes unpaid because they can't afford to go after the rich. So the middle and lower classes will keep paying their taxes as always while 1 trillion which could pay for alot each year goes unpaid

Well of course they did. If IRS could just collect taxes owed, taxes might not have to be raised.

GOP is protecting the tax cheaters

Tax the rich.

Cannot alienate the GOP donors.

That is absolute HORSE $hit! If you haven't read this from ProPublica...it shows the reverse logic the IRS uses. For some reason, they audit poor people...someone explain that to me.

Can someone please ask WHY Rs don't want tax laws (already skewed to favor the rich) enforced? I'm thinking this will be a difficult question for them to answer... which is exactly why they need to be asked repeatedly.

Bout Right… They’re using tRumps Book Keeper!!!

I'd like to know exactly why Republicans think cheating on your taxes is perfectly okay.

you can't make rich people pay their fair share of taxes because then my family, my friends and i would all have to pay a fair share of taxes... guess we'll have to accept a few thousand deaths from infrastructure failures since there's nothing else to do

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