Manchin Promises to Ensure the IRS ‘Doesn’t Harass Anybody’ After $80 Billion Bulk-Up
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), a key sponsor of the recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act, has vowed to ensure that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “doesn’t harass anybody” after receiving an $80 billion appropriation in the bill.
The IRS provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act were among its most controversial.
The $80 billion allocated to the agency by the bill sextuples its budget, and Republican critics have warned that the bulked-up IRS could hire as many as 87,000 new agents. These agents in turn, critics have said, will be let loose among middle-class Americans and small businesses, despite Democrats’ claims that nobody making less than $400,000 per year will see their tax bill increase….
Why don’t you pass a bill that goes after medicare and medicaid fraud, I”ll bet that’t save billions of dollars in lost monies.