Didn't the legislature try to introduce a bill to prevent using the new agents/funding against lower earners, and it flopped? So it turns out all along no one actually wants to keep anyone accountable to such "promises."
Statement of Purpose: To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service Funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80.000.000.000, infusion of new funds.
Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
> legislature try to introduce a bill to prevent using the new agents/funding against lower earners
Money is fungible. This was a messaging bill. If they were serious, they'd create an independently-funded agency within the IRS with the sole mandate of going after high earners.
If the bill was a message, so was the response. "Fuck you, we'd rather not be hindered by such promises."
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>The original bill already passed.
factcheck: false. Original bill passed almost 12 hours later on the same day[0] [1]. The (above) amendment was voted on in the early morning, with the unamended increase passing in the afternoon.
>Congress has more important things to do.
factcheck: false. All 100 senators voted on the floor for a full vote on the amendment. None found they had something more important to do that would cause them not to cast a vote.
>The executive has stated its position.
factcheck: True. Either congress ignored the position, or they followed the privately endorsed position rather than the publicly endorsed one.
[0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm
[1] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00296.htm
Then more money will have to be printed. So we get a raise, but the raise still doesn't match the hurdle rate, while demand remains the same. That's some dystopian fucked up shit there.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...