Comment by nielsbot
2 days ago
> If the rich commit tax fraud, put them in jail.
I feel this doesn't happen as often as it should. I don't even think the IRS is catching enough wealthy tax cheats. The GOP has traditionally cut funding to the IRS which lowers their audit rate and/or limits their audits to those to the less wealthy. (Since going after the really wealthy requires a lot more work.)
I'll add every dollar of IRS funding nets many more dollars of taxes--if we ran the government like a business (for the sake of argument) we should invest a lot more into the IRS. It's free money.
It doesn’t and advocating for that is sensible. Advocating for exposing private data because we don’t feel the amount they paid is fair, even when they’ve not been accused of crime, is not.