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[SAllen2556]

UH OH:

The Internal Revenue Service is hiring thousands of new auditors as it gears up for a potentially massive tax-enforcement push if Congress is able to pass an infrastructure plan that includes $40 billion to expand audits on the wealthy.

The IRS small business and criminal investigations divisions are adding thousands of new tax enforcement employees as the agency seeks to rebuild the roughly 17,000 audit staff lost in the past decade, officials said Friday.

The agency’s small business unit will add about 2,000 new workers, including 1,300 revenue agents, before the IRS’s fiscal year ends at the end of September, De Lon Harris, co-commissioner of the division, said at a tax conference at New York University. The criminal investigations division will add more than 500 people this year, with about half of those being special agents, said James Lee, who leads the criminal unit.

[irv]

What they should really be doing is investigating those that get elected with just a base salary but end up with millions in net value and assets after not too many years in power.
Going after the little guy is all about more gov't control and taxation.
Anyone hear about the new credit card that will watch your carbon credits then tax/punish you if "they" think you spend too much on those sort of things all in the name of global warming?
Funny times ahead, people. Bank on it.

"The Aspiration Zero card can help you shop responsibly
The Aspiration Zero is a carbon credit card issued by Aspiration, a sustainable neobank that tracks the carbon emissions of your purchases. With each purchase, Aspiration will plant a tree to offset your carbon footprint"
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/05/03/do...e-credit-card/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ma...ts-11618229211
https://www.thebalance.com/mastercar...tprint-5176550

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by irv

Anyone hear about the new credit card that will watch your carbon credits then tax/punish you if "they" think you spend too much on those sort of things all in the name of global warming?
Funny times ahead, people. Bank on it.

"The Aspiration Zero card can help you shop responsibly
The Aspiration Zero is a carbon credit card issued by Aspiration, a sustainable neobank that tracks the carbon emissions of your purchases. With each purchase, Aspiration will plant a tree to offset your carbon footprint"
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/05/03/do...e-credit-card/
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ma...ts-11618229211
https://www.thebalance.com/mastercar...tprint-5176550

Cool! That means I get extra points every time I buy a hamburger, because I've had a hand in killing off a burping, farting cow.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Mark17

Cool! That means I get extra points every time I buy a hamburger, because I've had a hand in killing off a burping, farting cow.

Actually no, because of all the cows they need to keep reproducing to maintain the herds and keep producing beef for the evergrowing population. Plus you have to factor in all the other resources required to get the cattle to maturity and the overall cost carbon footprint-wise to raise and bring to market a pound of beef. Buying that burger just gives the cattle industry a reason to raise even more cattle, not less.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by BobC

Actually no, because of all the cows they need to keep reproducing to maintain the herds and keep producing beef for the evergrowing population. Plus you have to factor in all the other resources required to get the cattle to maturity and the overall cost carbon footprint-wise to raise and bring to market a pound of beef. Buying that burger just gives the cattle industry a reason to raise even more cattle, not less.

I didn't birth the cow, I didn't raise it or feed it or teach it to fart. Others bear that guilt.

My involvement with the cow is that I terminated its life, then terminated its carcass.