More Democrat Duplicitousness on IRS Funding

[neurosis]

I thought this was an interesting article coming from a very left leaning media outlet.  Makes you think about how honest the Dems have been in their intentions (I know you guys do anyway) from the beginning.  The kicker was the amendment that they Dems unanimously voted no on. I'm glad the amendment was proposed and they were forced to vote to show their true intentions. 


https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/more-democrat-duplicitousness-on-irs-funding/

This morning, I wrote about how Janet Yellen's math doesn't add up on the claim that the expanded IRS resulting from the Democrats' reconciliation bill will audit only the highest-income earners. Now, a Congressional Budget Office estimate is providing more evidence of Democrats' duplicitousness.

During the reconciliation bill process in the Senate, any senator can introduce an amendment. That meant that many Republicans offered amendments to force Democrats to take votes they might not have wanted to take. One such amendment was from Senator Mike Crapo (R., Idaho). It would have added to the IRS funding portion of the reconciliation bill that "none of the funds . . . may be used to audit taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000."

That is exactly the line that Yellen, in her letter to the IRS commissioner, was saying Democrats support. Yet, when given the chance to vote on putting that language in the bill, all 50 Senate Democrats voted against the amendment.

[RobertELee]

Shocker!

[BrianP.]

I heard this a while ago. No surprise there. They will screw the working class every chance they get. I posted in another thread about how our wonderful state democrat legislature is sitting on 3 billion in tax revenue that a 1986 law requires them to refund to the tax payers. They are doing everything in their power to not have to. The biggest hinderance to the middle class is the tax and spend policy of the left. The right isn't much better but the left takes it to a whole new level. Wait till you see what happens to your health insurance and copays on drugs when only Medicaid and Medicare can negotiate drug prices. Where do you think they will try to make up the difference? Just like Obamacare it will place the burden on the working people.

[CNCAppsJames]

I pointed that FACT out to leftists I know.... they ALL said I was lying.