Summary
The IRS announced it has recovered $4.7 billion in back taxes and criminal proceeds since receiving $80 billion in funding through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
This includes $1.3 billion from wealthy tax dodgers and $2.9 billion from criminal investigations.
Despite these gains, the IRS faces funding cuts: $1.4 billion was rescinded earlier, and $20 billion is frozen or redirected under recent budget deals.
Republicans, under a new majority, aim to further reduce IRS funding and renew Trump-era tax cuts. Trump has nominated Billy Long as the next IRS commissioner, drawing criticism from Democrats.
New headline: Thugs managed to steal $4.7 billion that they would previously have been unable to steal.
Taxation is theft.
Always one of you silly buggers commenting these kinds of stories isn’t there.
But you don’t understand, see, he didn’t consent to being taxed, therefore it’s theft.
Be kind to them, they were kidnapped and imprisoned for many years since birth. The earlier years involved many forms of humiliating torture.
Yep. Glad to be of assistance.
Man, I remember middle school…
Why?
Roads, schools, fire department,…
The large one defense budget (possible theft here)…
Why do you think “taxation is theft”?
Because they want the benefits of a civilized society but think they shouldn’t have to pay for them
I bet it’s that the think they will one day own the benefits of a civilized society, and want to preemptively pull the ladder up while making money off the backs of everyone else. You know, like a parasite.
Taxes are the subscription fee one pays to live in a society. Don’t like that? Go live somewhere else.
There is no land on this planet that has not been claimed by government goons, so there is nowhere else to go.
Edit: Okay, that is not quite true. But for the most part, it is. The only exception I’m totally aware of at the moment is Gornyasiga, which became Liberland. Now that I find to be an interesting project and something that seems like it would be interesting to participate in.
All of Antarctica, though that’s been designated entirely for science by international treaty.
Plenty of land is claimed but uncontrolled. Just get some like-minded people together and set up camp. I’m sure it’ll go fine.
Oh yes, I read a book about that and it was quite funny actually. The Free State Project is actually something I am interested in and have considered moving for myself, but it’s still in the United States, which is under the tyranny of the federal government, so it might not be worth it. Unless they succeed in actually seceding from the Union.
I think you missed the point of the book, the FSP is a failure. You can’t build a society of people who reject society.
Libertarians want to create a voluntary society which is by definition a society.
Only if it works (it doesn’t).
Let me know after you move to a region with no taxes. I’ll come kill you and take all your stuff since there’s no justice system.
So you don’t like schools, roads, public healthcare, having a police force to protect the citizens? You realize taxes pay for those right? And without them, if you get robbed, there will be no police to help you.
Also, did you know the bourgeoisie steal way more from you than the taxes you pay?
The concept of money is theft, taxation is how the money-printing thugs keep it from inflating itself out of existence.
It sure doesn’t seem to be working because it’s still costing more and more all the time. So they’re printing it faster than they’re taking it away. But that’s not surprising since the government doesn’t tax itself.