{"id":1641622,"date":"2022-09-15T09:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641622"},"modified":"2022-09-15T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:49:39","slug":"senate-republicans-introduce-bill-to-block-super-sized-irs-from-targeting-middle-class-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-republicans-introduce-bill-to-block-super-sized-irs-from-targeting-middle-class-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republicans Introduce Bill to Block \u2018Super-Sized IRS\u2019 from Targeting Middle-Class Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-republicans-introduce-bill-to-block-super-sized-irs-from-targeting-middle-class-americans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641622&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A group of Republican U.S. senators introduced a new bill on Sept. 11 designed to curtail the growing power of the Internal Revenue Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-irs\">IRS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which is sponsored by Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.) and\u00a0Mike Crapo (R-ID), responds to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-inflation-reduction-act\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a> signed into law in August, which allots\u00a0$80 billion of additional funding to the IRS. The new surplus in funding has raised alarms that the IRS will use its power to harass middle-class Americans, and it is this fear that the new bill attempts to address.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the bill is simple: The proposed legislation stipulates that none of the additional funding provided to the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act should be used to audit Americans making less than $400,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith their so-called \u2018Inflation Reduction Act,\u2019 the Democrats just gave the IRS $80 billion to hire thousands of new IRS enforcement agents to squeeze more money from taxpayers\u2019 pocketbooks,\u201d Senator Lankford said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Lankford_Crapo_bill_to_protect_taxpayers_from_IRS_audits.pdf\">statement<\/a>. \u201cDemocrats needed billions to pay for their progressive Green New Deal climate-change policies in their bill, and their gimmicks and games are going to worsen our economic tailspin and higher costs for taxpayers in all income levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s co-sponsor is in consensus with Lankford, arguing that the targeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-middle-class\">middle class<\/a> will be a necessary feature of the new IRS agenda, as the agency probes deeper into the finances of middle-class Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats cannot achieve\u00a0their desired tax revenue goals without targeting the middle class, small businesses, and taxpayers earning under $400,000 per year\u2014taxpayers who cannot afford teams of lawyers and legal fees\u2014which is why they rejected my original amendment,\u201d\u00a0Crapo said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cWhile advocates promise they do not intend to increase audits on people making less than $400,000, the best way to protect those taxpayers is to turn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Republican U.S. senators introduced a new bill on Sept. 11 designed to curtail the growing power of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The bill, which is sponsored by Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.) and\u00a0Mike Crapo (R-ID), responds to the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law in August, which allots\u00a0$80 billion of additional funding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}