Originally posted by: AKQJ10
Great point that somehow in all his research on the matter, Kevin hasn't addressed that this limit has been in effect for decades with either party in control and yet it hasn't changed. Sure Kevin, blame it on the current Congress Republicans! lol
What Kevin also fails to understand, is that while the rule would change if Congress passed a bill directly addressing the limit, the IRS has the authority to make the change itself, without approval from Congress. In other words, the limit can be changed without involving Congress at all! This is why the latest news on the matter is a bit more promising than prior efforts. Why hasn't your in depth research of the matter along with your superior intelligence made you aware of this, Kevin? How can you account for not fully understanding this simple matter?
I was fairly sure that some conservitard would yeep in response to what I said, and Miller already beat you to it. The difference NOW as opposed to the efforts the IRS has made in the past is that the funding enhancements requested by the IRS are presently directly requested by the current administration (as well as the IRS itself). Previously, Republican administrations/Congresses blocked such efforts. It's true that during the only two years when Democrats actually had control (the first two years of the Obama administration), this was something that should have been done...but they were focused on the much more important ACA.
I don't know what the current arcane mechanisms are, but isn't it kinda obvious that if a) the IRS says, and has repeatedly said, that they want the reporting thresholds raised, b) they have testified so in front of Congress, but c) it hasn't happened, that Congress, in whatever fashion, presents an obstacle? If the IRS could, as you say, just do it, why haven't they, and why were they even talking to Congress about it?
Isn't it also kinda obvious that like so many other measures placed in front of Congress over the last few years, the Republiholes have opposed this simply because it's something Biden wants? They've fucked over their own constituents hundreds of times already with this "implacable opposition" crap.
(I know the precise answer to the above, but I want to see if your erudition affords you access to it first.)
