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So will the IRS.
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Only because we keep gutting their funding, and making them stay 40 years in the past with documentation. They go after the easier marks.
If they had more resources, and they could modernize, they could more effectively go after the wealthy, but decades of "iRs bAD" propaganda has kneecapped their public perception, and their ability to do their jobs against billionaires.
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According to this 3 year old data set, US direct and indirect subsidies for the Oil and Gas industry ALONE account for ~750 billion per year.
Agricultural subsidies add another $30 billion per year.
Wal-Mart, just a single company, benefits from around 7.5 billion per year in public spending.
The US government literally hands our tax revenue DIRECTLY to the rich. And then says we have no money for SNAP. Like stop giving Lockheed and General Dynamics and BAE and Raytheon a trillion dollars a year. The US government is a machine for taking money from working people and handing it to the rich, just like pretty much every other aspect of society at this point.
It intentional.
The only reason means testing exist is so people get mad who gets it when they don't.
Instead of getting mad at the people preventing everyone from having it, they get mad at the people even lower who need it more.
The only way the oligarchs can keep balanced on top is if everyone is punching down.