Highlights: House Republicans are proposing funding $14 billion in aid to Israel by cutting additional money for divisions of the IRS tasked with making sure wealthy people and tax cheats pay their fair share, according to a new bill filed Monday.
The bill would also eliminate a task force intended to design a free direct e-file tax return system that could wind up competing with TurboTax—a change that the company, and politicians, particularly Republicans, have fought. Advocates have said such a system could save taxpayers billions of dollars, and millions of hours of prep time, per year.
The GOP’s latest bill matches $14 billion Biden’s funding request for Israel in number—but not in its proposed approach.
The thought of—as my colleague David Corn put it in Mother Jones‘ internal Slack channel—”letting billionaires cheat to pay for bombs to drop on civilians” is jarring, particularly given the more than 3,500 children that Gaza health authorities say have been killed by the Israeli airstrikes; heartbreaking photos and videos have shown kids covered in blood and dust and collapsing while coping with living through the trauma of war and losing loved ones.
Republicans don’t actually know how governments get money, do they?
They know. The GOP is anti-government. They’ve done nothing but gut regulatory bodies and cut taxes for the rich, with some occasional bipartisanship, for over 30 years.
The only exceptions are things like abortion bans and laws restricting the rights of groups they don’t like. Then, suddenly, the GOP are big fans of a large government.
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Oh, they do. But the party gets the money primarily from the big donors, so it is important to keep them happy. The load of the taxes is on the shoulders of the middle income people, anyway, who cannot afford to bribe the politicians their way.
The politicians generally do, the voters generally don’t.