Today I learned the IRS doesn’t audit rich people because it’s too much work.

• Americans owe a cumulative $131 billion in unpaid taxes, enough to completely fund the Department of Ed. for 2 years...
• Most of this unpaid tax money is owed by millionaires...
• Millionaires were 80% less likely to be audited in 2018 than in 2011...
• You are more likely to get audited if you make $20,000/yr than if you make $400,000/yr

just to chime in, saying that it’s “too much work” frames the IRS as lazy and not willing to work hard. The IRS can’t audit rich people because they don’t have enough money to pay for sufficient personnel to audit everyone who isn’t on anti-poverty programs.

This is directly because of conservatives. 

Moreover, the rich pay lawers and accounting teams to ACTIVELY MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO AUDIT THEM. The IRS actually put together task force to finally go after billionaire tax fraud and they were immediately swamped in more red tape and civil court trouble than they could handle.

The government can't tax rich people because the rich are, in fact, so rich that they can leverage more power than the government.

That’s revolting. <__>

“In 1966, Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California on a promise to “clean up the mess at Berkeley,” which he described as “a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters, and sex deviants.” Reagan got the school’s president fired, attempted to cut the educational budget, and, in 1969, ordered an armed confrontation with student demonstrators who were protesting the war. Officers opened fire with shotguns and tear gas. One student, a bystander, was killed. Another was permanently blinded, and 32 were hospitalized with severe injuries. On May 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon told an audience at the Pentagon: “You see these bums, you know, blowing up the campuses. Listen, the boys that are on the college campuses today are the luckiest people in the world, going to the greatest universities, and here they are burning up the books, storming around about [the Vietnam War].” Three days later, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University, leaving four students dead and nine wounded. On May 15, local police killed two black students and left twelve more wounded during a demonstration at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. Somehow, despite decades’ worth of counterexamples, the American mainstream remains convinced that campus activists represent a unique threat to public safety and civil discourse.”

— Political correctness doesn’t kill people | The Outline (via brutereason)