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TrollBuster9090

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3. That's true, but they're also VERY GOOD at not leaving their finger prints on these policies.
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 07:45 PM
Dec 2016

For example, Republicans GUTTED FUNDING for the IRS during Clinton's second term. The first people the IRS had to lay off were the more highly paid auditors who specialized in auditing high-income tax returns. So, the IRS essentially gave a 'tax cut' to the wealthiest Americans because they didn't have the personnel to audit their taxes anymore. Meanwhile, they tried to make up the shortfall by auditing poor people more often. And then they made the perfect double play, by using that to turn sentiment against the IRS.

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