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  1. 17 hours ago, Satchel said:

    I’m a Biden fan but I think there’s a chance that Jill might persuade him to rest on his laurels as a successful long term senator, VP, and POTUS and allow them to live out the rest of their lives enjoying their family and each other. He has nothing left to prove and deserves some time off. I’m much younger and recoil in horror at the thought of having to keep his schedule. 

    This is where I’m leaning. 

  2. On 9/11/2022 at 10:20 AM, Rhinotx said:

    I saw the Defensive Linemen communicating with each other to line up correctly. Big difference from last year. 

    Remember a play specifically where one interior DL told the other to slide down a gap.  We proceeded to stuff that run in the exact gap the interior DL shifted over to.  It’s so refreshing to see some sense of competence on the defensive side of the ball.

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  3. 36 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

     

    From the fact check. 
     

    “The text of the Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t specify a number of new hires for the IRS. The 87,000 number shows up in a May 2021 reportfrom the Treasury Department that estimated more funding allocated by President Joe Biden’s administration would allow the IRS to hire nearly 87,000 full-time employees by 2031.”

     

    So 87,000 more agents over the next decade if they’re allocated more funding. And….they were allocated more funding in a very public effort to increase the scope of their operations and collections. All while not bothering to clarify or contest the number themselves. 
     

    I award your fact check a generous 1 out of 5 stars.
     

    That was some well ackshually….level work.

     

     

    Did you miss this part?

    Additionally, the IRS is expecting a large number of employees to leave in the next 10 years and will hire new staff to fill those roles. At least 50,000 staff members will leave or retire from the agency in the next five years alone, according to the Treasury Department. 
     

     

    55 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

    First GR Horn post?

    fuck you and fuck gr horn 

  4. Spoiler

    The IRS is not increasing audits on middle class by hiring 87K new agents

    The Inflation Reduction Act includes about $80 billion in funding for the IRS. The agency isn’t using that money to hire 87,000 new auditors.


    There was 0% inflation in July 2022, but inflation is still at 8.5% annually


    VERIFY This: Medicare cuts, $35 insulin for all, chickenpox vaccine, Pelosi Taiwan trip and shading A/C units

    Author: Megan Loe
    Published: 10:15 AM EDT August 11, 2022
    Updated: 5:56 PM EDT August 12, 2022
    Congress recently passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes the largest-ever federal effort to combat climate change and aims to lower rising costs of goods while paying down the nation's debt. The legislation also allocates funding to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 
    After the Senate passed the bill, people on Twitter claimed that the funding would allow the IRS to increase audits on middle-class Americans by hiring 87,000 new agents. 
    “Do you make $75,000 or less? Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) wrote in a tweet. 
    THE QUESTION

    Is the IRS increasing audits on the middle class by hiring 87,000 new agents?
    THE SOURCES

    U.S. Treasury Department
    IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig
    Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
    THE ANSWER


    No, the IRS is not increasing audits on the middle class by hiring 87,000 new agents. 
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    WHAT WE FOUND


    The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes about $80 billion in funding for the IRS over the next 10 years.
    If the bill passes the House and is signed into law, about $45.6 billion of that IRS funding would be put toward expenses for IRS tax enforcement services through September 2031, including hiring more employees. But the bill does not mention that the agency will hire 87,000 new agents specifically tasked with audits – and the U.S. Department of the Treasury says these claims are false. 
    The text of the Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t specify a number of new hires for the IRS. The 87,000 number shows up in a May 2021 report from the Treasury Department that estimated more funding allocated by President Joe Biden’s administration would allow the IRS to hire nearly 87,000 full-time employees by 2031. 
    RELATED: Yes, the Internal Revenue Service did buy nearly $700K in ammunition in early 2022
    That report was specific to previous legislation and it’s not clear yet how many people the IRS would hire with the Inflation Reduction Act funding.
    Additionally, the IRS is expecting a large number of employees to leave in the next 10 years and will hire new staff to fill those roles. At least 50,000 staff members will leave or retire from the agency in the next five years alone, according to the Treasury Department. 
    These staff members work in various departments throughout the IRS and aren’t tasked with only enforcement. The IRS plans to determine the final numbers and breakdown of potential new staff for the next decade in the coming months, but the addition of new employees won’t mean increased audits for middle-class Americans, according to the Treasury and IRS. 
    “New staff will be hired to improve taxpayer services and experienced auditors who can take on corporate and high-end tax evaders, without increasing audit rates relative to historical norms for people earning under $400,000 each year,” a spokesperson for the Treasury Department said. 
    In a recent letter, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig also assured Senate members that the IRS would not “increase audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans.”
    According to the Treasury Department spokesperson, “the resources to modernize the IRS will be used to improve taxpayer services, from answering the phones to improving IT systems – and to crack down on high-income and corporate tax evaders who cost the American people hundreds of billions of dollars each year.”
    RELATED: Inflation Reduction Act only caps insulin prices for Medicare patients, not for people with private insurance
    Previous analyses of the agency have revealed that the IRS needs more employees. National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins said in her midyear report to Congress, published in June 2022, that many of the challenges the IRS is facing “stem from inadequate staffing, including limited staffing in Submission Processing and telephone call centers.”
    In 2021, the IRS had less than 80,000 employees, a decrease of nearly 13% since 2012, according to the agency’s website.
    Rettig wrote in his letter that the IRS has “fewer front-line, experienced examiners in the field than at any time since World War II, and fewer employees than at any time since the 1970s.”
    “Advances in technology have been helpful but have not kept pace with the ever-increasing responsibilities and challenges facing the IRS,” he said. “As a result, the IRS has for too long been unable to pursue meaningful, impactful examinations of large corporate and high-networth taxpayers to ensure they are paying their fair share.”

    Meant to add the spoiler 

  5. 3 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

    Good point. It’s a great jobs program. Glad to see you’re on the side of more law enforcement. Let’s hire 87,000 more cops at the federal level. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about! 

    You keep mentioning this 87K number, source?

     

    https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/taxes-verify/irs-not-increasing-audits-hiring-87k-new-agents-through-inflation-reduction-act/536-477cb699-a46e-4898-9e5e-0e48d5fffd2a

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  6. 9 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

    Jones’s counsel called the plaintiff’s lawyer “dishonest” in front of the judge after the jury was dismissed for the day, which is why she instructed him to review the disciplinary rules and come back ready to “back up” that allegation.

    When I had a trial in front of this judge earlier this year, she often times cut off any of defense’s bs immediately.  Like I said previously, this judge ain’t bout the bullshit.

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  7. 7 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

    FYI 

    459th District Court

    1000 Guadalupe, Room 501
    Austin, TX 78701

     

     

    Judge Maya Guerra Gamble is a great judge and doesn’t really take any bullshit.  
     

    edit to add: fuck Alex Jones hope they fry his ass

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  8. 1 hour ago, Goredho said:


    A surprising thing about Colorado -- it is a blue state, but the poor (non-resort) rural areas are just as red as they would be in Texas.  The people there feel like they are living under the tyranny of politicians in Denver that just care about the I25 corridor.  They may be more pissed off than Texans about liberals and democrats, because the state is generally under their influence.  I know a few who have left for Texas and South Dakota in a migration not unlike my own but for obviously different reasons.

    @mchookem, @PenelopeWitherspoon, @Neonmoon, others?

    I attended a wedding in August 2020 in Pagosa Springs.  I was studying for the bar, my brother was working from home, and we were offered a cabin for free so we said fuck it and decided to spend a week there. You aren’t kidding about the small town Colorado being major gqp.  Really wasn’t much difference between say midland with how red that area was.

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  9. 13 minutes ago, Immaculate Vibes said:

    What pandemic readiness? We just had one. Do you think our government would do anything different? It’s a money grab. Simple. 
     

     

    Yes? They’d probably do a lot more than the trump admin and maybe not downplay it. “It’ll be gone by Easter.”  
     

    why are you so bad at this?  At least put your carrot profile pic back so you have something else for us to point and laugh at.
     

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