We should be hammering all politicians who do not take seriously spending the tax payers funds in such a flagrantly irresponsible way of not even reading the legislation. Are politicians only rubber stamps? pawns? Who is really calling the shots?
These are very serious economic decisions that will awaken voters.

A politician can gush, jobs, jobs, jobs, as justification of their actions. Maybe someone will now check up on the results.

GL

The point is that the economy has become so complex and large that there is no way that anybody can manage or police it. The IRS is a mid 20th century construct. It hasnt been up to its task for 25 years. In order for the govt to gather the revenue it needs, it has to come up with a much simpler and robust system.

Both are readily available for instant play on Netflix, and highly recommended.

What else will change things? The Republicans? Please.

The next Black Swan is the inevitable complete collapse of the US economy and government, if things continue down this road. Herb notes that tax receipts are down. Of course they are, because economic activity is down (Democrats never seem able to make this connection, which a ten year old could figure out). If all the ‘Bamas gradiose schemes go through, we will see a collapse in economic activity that will make the Depression look like a bull market. From whence, then, comes the government’s revenue?

It may come as a shock to the Democrats in the near future that without people making money, there is no money to take. They won’t like it, but as the late great James Burnham put it, “Who says A must say B.” There’s nothing they can do to stop it, no matter how much they scrunch up their fat, stupid faces and bulge out their vacant, evil eyes while spouting off on the House floor. Reality will be, as they say, a bitch.

What does the government run on when there’s nothing to run on? What happens? What gets cut? What doesn’t? What happens in the streets when unemployment is 20%, 30%, 40% or more? What happens when people can’t eat because there’s no food to be had? Will we still be worried about our carbon footprints? (I cried because I had a big carbon footprint until I met a man who didn’t have any carbon footprint at all.)

Just who will be the Who after the deluge? If we are lucky, a good and strong person will arise to take that role. The odds ain’t good, but it’s what we got.

Otherwise, we’re on target to resemble something along the lines of North Korea. Think it can’t happen? It could all happen in six months.

An IRS phone agent told me yesterday, when I called about a matter, that I had neglected to claim a credit worth $1000 per year for each of three years. IRS has been very helpful on a personal level for quite a few years now, responding to the request a decade ago that it be nicer to taxpayers.

This is just to say that any bad system tends to ensnare the often good people who work in it.

If bad money drives out good money, a corollary is that bad systems drive away good people, who just want to be left alone to do the best they can. Needless to say, this situation favors the proponents of the bad systems, who can use those systems to drive away the people who don’t want the system.

PBS aired ‘Bleak House’ and ‘Little Dorrit’ during the last two years. Dickens lived inside of bad systems. His depictions of the legal system in Bleak House and of the government “Circumlocution Office” in Little Dorrit are, unfortunately, timeless.

An uncommmonly cynical person might predict under the current admin that if people actually begin to take advantage of the appeals process enough to measurably impede the flow of revenues, Urkel will issue an executive order to the inland revenue collection service to ignore or even punish such appeals.