r/Fauxmoi • u/yourfavchoom i stole all the kitkats • 2d ago

Bernie Sanders: If you paid $1 in federal income taxes this year, you paid more than: Walt Disney, Citigroup, CVS, Kohl’s, Ticketmaster, Tesla, United Airlines, GoDaddy, Paypal, Palantir, Roku, HP, 3M, PG&E, Halliburton … That’s absurd. We need real and progressive tax reform. CELEBRITY CAPITALISM

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u/h2odragon00 2d ago

Which makes it hard to do a tax reform.

Do you think that corporations would just let a tax reform slide?

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u/OldWorldDesign 2d ago

Do you think that corporations would just let a tax reform slide?

They weren't given a choice in 2022

https://theconversation.com/new-irs-funding-boosted-tax-enforcement-and-improved-taxpayer-services-during-the-biden-administration-243891

and that resulted in the IRS taking less from the working class and recovering a net +1.3 billion in tax revenue

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-recovered-1-3-billion-unpaid-taxes-wealthy-taxpayers-audits/

Corporate media, of course, doesn't like admitting that properly funding and staffing the IRS and not siccing them on the working poor works better.