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IRS collects milestone $1B in back taxes from high-wealth taxpayers

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95 points gmays | 2 comments | 27 Jul 24 02:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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anon291 ◴[27 Jul 24 04:59 UTC] No.41084545[source]▶
Okay... That'll fund like what.. An hour of governance?

Why more Americans Are not mad at the complete waste of our tax money is beyond me

For a billion dollars, other countries are successfully building entire transit systems, high speed rails, other infrastructure, or running massive welfare programs.

We should be getting so much more.

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1. Glyptodon ◴[27 Jul 24 05:30 UTC] No.41084625[source]▶
It's be nice if the two parties didn't have a goal of making bad policies to prove their points.
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2. bilbo0s ◴[27 Jul 24 08:00 UTC] No.41085127[source]▶
They don’t.

They make bad policy, to stay in power.

Political ideologues nowadays generally have no points to make. They believe in whatever will keep them in power. That’s how we end up with a nation full of ‘conservatives’ who routinely outspend ‘liberals’. And we have a nation full of ‘liberals’ who ‘believe’ in increasing the power of the state.