Congress Catch-All | House passes CR, no debt ceiling change

[heelinhell]

"Tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthy in part because high-income taxpayers are able to employ experts who can better shield them from reporting their true incomes, the Treasury Department argued in a blog post. More complicated incomes such as partnerships and proprietorships – more frequent among high earners — have a far greater noncompliance rate that can hit as high as 55%."

Change the effing laws then. Nothing like a democrat to participate in creating an extremely complex tax structure that requires "experts" and an entire specialty of law to administer, then complain that people who can afford to hire them are taking advantage of the very system democrats helped create. Quit bitching and lead the effort to rewrite the tax code. If its so bad, shift more resources to auditing rich people and less to the middle class. The answer isn't hiring more overhead. The answer is simplifying the code or focus more on the wealthy. I'm all for people paying the taxes they legally owe. Hell, I'm all for taxing the wealthy in different ways. But I also fully support the 50% who pay nothing having to have some skin in the game as well.

So Democrats created a tax system to benefit the wealthy and punish the middle class ?

I did not know that

 

[TangledUpInBlue06]

"Tax evasion is concentrated among the wealthy in part because high-income taxpayers are able to employ experts who can better shield them from reporting their true incomes, the Treasury Department argued in a blog post. More complicated incomes such as partnerships and proprietorships – more frequent among high earners — have a far greater noncompliance rate that can hit as high as 55%."

Change the effing laws then. Nothing like a democrat to participate in creating an extremely complex tax structure that requires "experts" and an entire specialty of law to administer, then complain that people who can afford to hire them are taking advantage of the very system democrats helped create. Quit bitching and lead the effort to rewrite the tax code. If its so bad, shift more resources to auditing rich people and less to the middle class. The answer isn't hiring more overhead. The answer is simplifying the code or focus more on the wealthy. I'm all for people paying the taxes they legally owe. Hell, I'm all for taxing the wealthy in different ways. But I also fully support the 50% who pay nothing having to have some skin in the game as well.

If you could turn $20 billion into $44 billion in 10 years, would that be a good investment?

 

[lawtig02]

Yep, it was fantastic work. Not surprising you would look at a gotcha headline like the one NYC posted and make your comment or completely disregard everything else that got cut. The simple fact is trump created DOGE to highlight and eliminate wasteful spending. That your side would ridicule that speaks volumes. However, it also highlights just how out of touch this board is with reality. DOGE will be a huge hit among voters. Just wait and see.

DOGE is already a flop with freaking Laura Loomer. You think it’ll be popular with the average American?

 

[lawtig02]

Yep, it was fantastic work. Not surprising you would look at a gotcha headline like the one NYC posted and make your comment or completely disregard everything else that got cut. The simple fact is trump created DOGE to highlight and eliminate wasteful spending. That your side would ridicule that speaks volumes. However, it also highlights just how out of touch this board is with reality. DOGE will be a huge hit among voters. Just wait and see.

If you think blowing enormous amounts of political capital on a gambit that resulted in zero spending benefits and pretty much everything the Dems wanted while setting up a massive problem for the Pubs just two months into Trump’s presidency is “fantastic work,” then I’m feeling much more confident about how the next couple of years will play out. I guarantee you Trump doesn’t think that Keystone Cops routine was “fantastic work.”