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Your own personal IRS agent?

Interesting math behind the Biden plan to hire 80,000 IRS agents to make sure persons and corporations earning over $400,000 per year are paying their fair share.

2,800,000 = the approximate number of American tax filers who earn more than $400,000
80,000 = the number of additions new IRS agents Biden plans to hire to assure the above will pay their fair share
35 = 2,800,000 divided by 80,000

At 35 to 1, this is like someone earning more than $400K will have the equivalent of a personal IRS agent looking over their financial affairs. Contrast this to the 790 to 1 ratio of police officers to citizens in my community. Put another way, the US government is far-far-far-far more focused on the rich 2% paying their taxes than the city is on protecting the people from being murdered, raped, assaulted, robbed, etc. Why so many "far"s? Because 35 to 1 compared to 790 to 1 is a big, big difference.

Digging further into the insanity ....

$100,000 = the annual approximate cost of employing one IRS agent (a pretty conservative estimate)
$2,857 = $100,000 divided by 35

To pay for the 80,000 additional IRS agents, the IRS will have to squeeze an average of an additional $2,857 from everyone earning $400K+ just to pay the salary and benefits of the additional IRS agent hired to make sure the over $400K taxpayers are paying his/her fair share.

How did this kind of crap get into a bill called the "Inflation Reduction Act"? It sounds more like it belongs in a bill designed to fund the Gestapo.
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what if we instead, taxed eh mega corps, not based on their NET, which is easy to fudge.
Ooo we made 30 Mil in profits,, if we instead use that for "expenses" then there is no income to tax.
maybe the megacorps should actually pay taxes for the PRIVLEDGE of doing business as a corporation in the US
this goes double for those who have offshored their company
to do businss in the US you should BE in the US, if not pay more
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@SatyrService so it will be just like the Ozulu regime where those with money moved it offshore and simply didn't invest. There were trillions just sitting under the matress

You must be an economics scholar
@SW-User lol,, ah
"the Dismal Science" talk more about the Ozulu regime? when where and who was that?