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American psychologist Abraham Maslow once quipped, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” This philosophy is applied regularly to America’s financial problems by President Joe Biden and President-in-Waiting Kamala Harris as they spend, regulate, and tax more, redistributing wealth and hammering down the hard-working American.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig testified before the Senate Finance Committee last week, “As much as $1 trillion a year in federal taxes may be going unpaid because of errors, fraud, and lack of resources to enforce collections adequately.” Seeking an IRS budget increase, his remarks were referencing his agency that features about 6,500 agents mobilized to deal with the most complex cases involving large corporations or the highest income earners.
In 2019, the IRS had “73,554 full-time equivalent positions in conducting its work” and spent $11.8 billion for its operations, while the revenue it collected in 2019 was $3.5 trillion. Oregon’s famed Democrat and Finance Committee Chairman, Senator Ron Wyden, responded to the plea for more funding and the outstanding trillion due to tax cheats: “I thank you for delivering this important wake-up call to this committee about the enormity of the cheating that is taking place in America with respect to taxes.”
What is the remedy to retrieve the needed money for more spending? More spending, of course! The Biden administration is seeking a $1.2 billion increase for the IRS, with $900 million of that to be directed toward compliance. Clearly, Americans must lawfully comply with their tax payments, but we should understand that there will never be enough taxes to feed an engorged government.
The Wall Street Journal’s John McCormick observes, “The U.S. budget deficit grew to a record $1.7 trillion in the first half of the fiscal year as a third round of stimulus payments sent federal spending soaring last month.” Less than 10% of the $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan was used directly for virus aid. When parents are predictably easy, teenagers wise to those weaknesses will make more requests for money and further test the boundaries. When Biden solves every problem with money, more money will be requested from this big-spending, big-government administration.
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