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    1 year ago

    There’s a reason Republicans are hell bent on defending the IRS and the only other option isn’t putting up much of a fight…

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        1 year ago

        Not going to look up the actual numbers, but…

        Dems said we need X billions dollars to fund the IRS.

        Dems asked for billions less, got even less passed. Then went back and took billions more from that after it was passed as a “show of good faith” in negations with Republicans. I’m pretty fucking sure that was to get a budget passed, which Surprise! Republicans still didn’t pass one.

        That’s why I said “the only other option isn’t putting up much of a fight…”.

        By Dems own admission we’re not giving them enough, even before it was reduced multiple times.