Well, that didn’t take long.
For years Republicans have campaigned on the claim that our growing national debt had to be addressed. That Democrats and their “tax-and-spend” ways were driving us over a fiscal cliff.
Forget the fact that this is the same GOP that added $2 trillion to our debt with a tax scam skewed to benefit the rich and corporations. Forget the fact that former president/unindicted criminal Donald Trump tacked on nearly $8 trillion to what we owe in just four years as the Republicans cheered his every move.
It turns out that if you had one day in the pool for how long before the GOP’s rank hypocrisy would rear its ugly head in the newest version of the House of Representatives, you win.
On Monday House Republicans voted to strip about $71 billion from the Internal Revenue Service approved in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act to help it pursue tax cheats. The 221-210 vote was along party lines.
The original appropriation was $80 billion. It was earmarked for things like boosting taxpayer services to quicken agency response time, upgrading its computer system, and increasing enforcement to help find and collect unpaid federal taxes, particularly from high-earning individuals and businesses, the Washington Post reported.
“High-earning individuals and business” is the operative phrase here. Republicans are dedicated to protecting the rich at the expense of the poor and middle class. It’s the foundation of their “small…
