georgephillip
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Don't forget "law and order" conservatives who spend hours every week dialing for dollars:By bandits you mean Wall Street, big corporations, the 1%, the Catholic Church. etc right?
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"That tax gap didn’t just magically happen — it is the result of conservatives’ huge cuts to the Internal Revenue Service’s enforcement budget, which resulted in a particularly precipitous decline in audit rates for the superrich.
"In fact, the $266 billion figure could be an understatement, because the congressional budget analysts were estimating the tax gap that existed before those IRS budget cuts."
The 1 Percent Are Cheating Us Out of a Quarter-Trillion Dollars in Taxes Every Year