Apr 102011
The US budget went though in the end.
There was the inevitable horse trading.
One important part – to get the deal through the Republicans demanded that it be agreed that the IRS could hire no new agents.
So the US has a budget deficit and the easiest way to solve it is to collect the tax owing – but the Republicans refuse that option.
The only explanations are:
- seeking to undermine the rule of law
- seeking to undermine democracy
- stupidity
- all three of those noted previously.
2 Responses to “You have a budget deficit – but you ban the hiring of new tax agents. Now why would you do that?”
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A good study if one had time, would be a ration between agents and evasion amounts recouped…
Conceptualisation is everything.. to communicate this to Joe Schmoe you need to be able to say..
100 new tax agents = said sum recouped…. ie, in a way they understand.
American politics…. who’d have it?
A *ratio
[not a ration lol]