Mike Johnson’s first proposal: direct $14B to Israel by cutting $14B in IRS funding. It’s not a real offset since cutting IRS funding actually costs money. It’s not a serious proposal: it’s an attack ad in waiting (“Congressman X chose the IRS over Israel!”)
“I suggest we pay for this package with enormous losses in revenue”
I’m sure their latest interest in defunding the IRS has *nothing* to do with this announcement:
The tax agency vowed not to increase audit rates for people earning less than $400,000 annually.
Is an attack ad in waiting like a lady in waiting? Attending to the needs of the attack ad, bringing it snacks, playing the lute..
I struggle to understand who falls for "Congressman X chose IRS over Israel!" who also isn't already paying attention to what Congress is doing on Israel
Does the math work out that it would cost more to country to cut irs funding vs the interest in "borrowing" 14B? Just unfamiliar of ROI on every IRS enforcement dollar spent...know it is a net positive.
I genuinely think Johnson thinks that he can bully the House into passing it using that exact threat. He also thinks that the public opinion on Israel is still "near-universal support" instead of "mixed, with narrow support."
If that’s the plan it’s at least a couple of decades out of date, not that I would expect Republicans to realize it
Congressman X chose the IRS over <insert surprisingly precise end-of-days myth>
To be fair, the right has done a bang up job convincing average Americans that the IRS is the enemy of the working poor rather than an instrument for extracting tax revenue from the wealthy
Mike Johnson put funding for the mass slaughter of babies over making the rich pay their fair share of taxes.