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- GlyphGryph
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Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
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It's deniably a crime, because they're going to deny it.
Are they? I don't see why they'd bother when they can simply ignore it, it's not like anyone who matters is ever going to formally accuse them.
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Apr 6, 2023 18:47
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- cat botherer
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I am interested in most phases of data processing.
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For example, Voice of America doesn't have that label, and uh....
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Apr 6, 2023 18:56
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- InsertPotPun
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Pissy Bitch stan
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That wasn't NPR, that was ITVS.
quote:Carl Deal: We did not want to [use Kickstarter], but our funding got yanked from public television. We brought it to PBS for the last months of finishing. They were afraid of offending the Kochs, who are major contributors to Public Broadcasting. We were forced to use Kickstarter as a means to finish the film.
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Apr 6, 2023 19:05
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- Discendo Vox
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We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
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That's...still not NPR.
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Apr 6, 2023 19:23
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- InsertPotPun
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Pissy Bitch stan
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i got npr confused with pbs, my bad
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Apr 6, 2023 19:37
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- Leon Trotsky 2012
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They have evidence that the judge overseeing Trump's trial is a partisan Democrat who has funded multiple Democratic campaigns - including Joe Biden's Presidential campaign in 2020.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1644001176080244736
quote:$35 political contribution to Democrats raises fresh scrutiny of Judge Merchan
Judge Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York, donated $35 in political contributions to Democrats in 2020, including a $15 contribution to the campaign of Trump’s opponent, President Joe Biden.
The political donations are undoubtedly small, but they nevertheless raise questions about Merchan’s impartiality as he has come under attack by the former president as a “Trump-hating judge.”
“While the amounts here are minimal, it’s surprising that a sitting judge would make political donations of any size to a partisan candidate or cause,” said Elie Honig, a senior CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor.
According to federal election records, Merchan made the three donations in July 2020 through ActBlue, an online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and causes.
Merchan contributed $15 earmarked for the Biden campaign, and made two $10 contributions, one earmarked to the Progressive Turnout Project, a voter outreach organization, and another to Stop Republicans, a subsidiary of the Progressive Turnout Project.
Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics professor at New York University, said that New York, like most US jurisdictions, has adopted language from the American Bar Association Model Code of Judicial Conduct, which prohibits judges from “soliciting funds for, paying an assessment to, or making a contribution to a political organization or candidate.”
“The contribution to Biden and possibly the one to ‘Stop Republicans’ would be forbidden unless there is some other explanation that would allow them,” Gillers said.
But Gillers said that the donation “would be viewed as trivial, especially given the small sums.” He said if a complaint was made, the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct would remind the judge of the rules.
Asked if this could be grounds for a legal challenge or recusal, Gillers said, “Absolutely not. This does not come anywhere near the kind of proof required for recusal.”
Trump has been attacking Merchan and his family, including his daughter, whose political consulting firm did work for the Biden campaign and now-Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. Trump has also complained about Merchan for presiding over the case against the Trump Organization, which was convicted on tax fraud charges late last year.
CNN’s John Miller reports that the New York Police Department is tracking numerous threats against Merchan but has not seen specific, credible threats.
An attorney for Trump on Thursday condemned those making threats against Merchan. Joe Tacopina, one of the lawyers representing Trump in the case, told CNN the threats were “appalling and we condemn anyone participating in such behavior.”
Trump lawyer Susan Necheles declined to comment on the donations. But the former president’s political allies are pointing to the contributions to argue the judge should remove himself from the case.
“He donated to Joe Biden’s campaign. He should get off this case. And this judge has a history, with President Trump, in prior cases,” Mike Davis, a former Republican chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee and founder of a conservative judicial advocacy group, told CNN’s Pamela Brown. “He finds out that this judge actually donated to Biden’s campaign. So, that at least raises the appearance of impartiality – the appearance that this judge could not be impartial against President Trump.”
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a CNN legal analyst and former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said that the political donations amount to an “unforced error” for Merchan.
“Judge Merchan has a reputation of being a fair down the middle judge, however, donating to a defendant’s political rival can cause the appearance of a conflict, even where there is none, and creates an unforced error in this case involving Trump,” she said.
A search of federal election databases does not turn up any additional political contributions for Merchan. New York state campaign finance records show that he gave a $99 contribution in 2002 to Rolando Acosta, who has served as a New York state appeals court judge since 2017.
A source familiar with the court system said that the court administration doesn’t monitor judges’ personal affairs. The decision to recuse from the case would be up to Merchan himself.
If he doesn’t, however, Trump’s lawyers could appeal the matter to a New York state appeals court.
A spokesperson for the courts said, “We decline to comment on pending cases.”
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Apr 6, 2023 19:48
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- Eric Cantonese
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You should hear my accent.
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$35!!!!!
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Apr 6, 2023 19:56
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- Leon Trotsky 2012
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DeSantis and his political team are inexplicably modeling their 2024 campaign strategy after... Rudy Giuliani's 2008 Presidential campaign.
One of his political consultants in Michigan even makes the argument that the campaign is strategizing for a nomination that is decided at the convention after Trump dominates the early states and Republicans who want to win in 2024 rally around DeSantis afterwards.
Some wild political strategy that involves intentionally losing the first 12 primaries and surging after that.
https://mobile.twitter.com/aterkel/status/1643971657877389312
quote:Ron DeSantis' long-haul strategy against Trump comes into view
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ team is already plotting out a strategy to run against Donald Trump for the long haul. The plan focuses less on making a quick splash in places like Iowa or New Hampshire and more on outlasting the former president in a battle for Republican convention delegates.
Even though it’s early and DeSantis isn’t officially a candidate yet, in talks behind the scenes, an expanded map is viewed as one of the keys to victory, three sources close to the governor said.
“There have been multiple conversations about delegates and how they are picked in various states across the country,” a DeSantis adviser said. “One thing that we have looked at is that Trump can be beat on the delegate portion of all this. He has never been good at that.”
Another DeSantis political adviser said there have been internal conversations about delegate strategy. Staffers expected to lead the effort include Ryan Tyson, a longtime Florida GOP pollster who played a crucial role in DeSantis’ 19-point re-election victory last year, and Jeff Roe, a longtime Republican operative who led Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign and is now advising the pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down.
“I think if you look at out-of-state travel, it’s all over,” this person said. “It’s not missed on anyone there that it’s often to early states or large delegate states.”
A spokesperson for DeSantis’ team declined a request for comment.
DeSantis, who isn’t expected to formally declare his candidacy until May or June, isn’t expected to skip the first contests. Still, the strategy carries risks: Advanced attention to states that award more delegates under winner-take-all rules later in the primary season could translate into less time in the all-important first nominating contests, allowing Trump or another contender to develop unstoppable early momentum.
The early stages of the approach are evident in some of DeSantis’ travel this year.
Through Wednesday, DeSantis had attended more than a dozen events outside Florida. Only three — two in Iowa, one in Nevada — were in states expected to hold one of the first four caucuses or primaries. His first trip to New Hampshire is set for next week, a day after he gives two speeches in Ohio.
Some of the states DeSantis has visited, like California and New York, both of which have become specific focuses for the campaign’s early efforts, are home to big donors and delegate hauls. Others, like Georgia and Pennsylvania, also have the benefit of being general election battlegrounds.
“If you’re somebody like me who believes there’s the possibility that 2024 has the makings for a convention-decided nomination, with candidates each having several constituencies and several levels of regional support, it makes sense to be campaigning — or all but campaigning in the case of Ron DeSantis — in these big blue states or these big purple states,” said Dennis Lennox, a GOP consultant in Michigan, where DeSantis has two stops scheduled Thursday.
DeSantis allies note that his travels are related to an arranged book tour and to invitations he has accepted from local GOP leaders who recognize his ability to draw large audiences and raise money for their organizations. DeSantis raised more than $200 million during his 2022 re-election campaign, the most of any gubernatorial campaign in U.S. history, and he is expected to have the largest war chest of the 2024 GOP primary field.
But DeSantis’ itineraries stand in contrast to those of his would-be rivals. While Trump has visited early states sparingly and staged his first big 2024 rally in Waco, Texas, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Ambassador Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., are among the candidates and likely candidates heavily focused on early states.
Two pro-DeSantis super PACs have taken the lead as he travels the country, one of them, And To The Republic, often coordinating event logistics and the other, Never Back Down, engaging in polling and other efforts to promote him on the ground. The latter group is led by Ken Cuccinelli, one of the architects of Cruz’s strategy to wrangle delegates away from Trump ahead of the 2016 Republican convention. Never Back Down is expected to operate with DeSantis’ blessing — an important signal to party donors and activists — after he launches his campaign.
Advisers to the group declined to respond to questions this week about whether there are specific plans to shore up delegates for DeSantis. But one official, who requested anonymity to share internal thinking, acknowledged the benefits of a methodical state-by-state approach. National polls showing Trump with double-digit leads are irrelevant, said the official, who pointed to data showing more competitive races not only in states like Iowa and New Hampshire but also in Georgia.
“If he runs for president, Gov. DeSantis is going to win the nomination because of this grassroots support you’re seeing right now in all of these states that he is crisscrossing to,” the official said. “We’re the movement, the voice to get him to run. That’s what you’re seeing in these states. That’s what’s getting missed in trying to see the trees through the forest.”
Thursday’s schedule is particularly illuminating. Haley is set to rally in South Carolina, where she was once the governor and where White House dreams can be fortified or fumbled early in primary season. DeSantis is in Michigan, where Republicans aren’t yet sure when or how they’ll pick a favorite for president. The state’s primary was moved to February to accommodate a Democratic plan to make Michigan an early carve-out state. But the move didn’t comply with the Republican National Committee’s rules and calendar, so state party leaders are considering a later caucus or state convention to allocate delegates.
“You’re establishing these beachheads in states like Michigan, which has not decided what it’s going to do yet, in the hopes that maybe you can work the refs a little bit and get rules that perhaps might favor you more than another candidate in the race,” said Lennox, the Michigan consultant, who noted that the state’s new GOP chair, Kristina Karamo, won the position against a Trump-endorsed candidate and may feel less loyal to the former president.
State parties have until Oct. 1 to submit plans to the RNC for allocating delegates. In the past, rules have ordinarily required convention delegates to be awarded proportionally in the caucuses and primaries held before March 15. Winner-take-all contests, in which first-place candidates can win all of a state’s delegates, traditionally come later in the calendar.
While there are potential advantages to a broader strategy that values later-voting states, there are also risks. Bigger states can be more expensive to organize and advertise in, and failing to notch an early win in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada could shift the narrative of the race and keep DeSantis from having the money and momentum to make a deep run.
“I think if you have the resources to play on the larger playing field and not just focus on the early states, then it’s smart to do so,” said a Republican strategist who has held senior roles in past presidential campaigns but is for now unaligned in the 2024 race. “The caveat is you need to close the deal in the early states first. Gov. DeSantis hasn’t done that yet, so he runs the risk of acting too much like a front-runner when he hasn’t cemented that place yet.”
Much of the strategy for DeSantis is focusing on delegate-rich states like California and New York. DeSantis late last year did an event for the failed Republican gubernatorial campaign of Lee Zeldin of New York, a former member of Congress who is expected to be a top official in the state once DeSantis’ campaign becomes more official.
“Those states obviously have reputations for being Democratic, but in a GOP primary they have a lot of delegate potential,” said one of the DeSantis advisers who was granted anonymity to speak freely about the thought process. “He has polled really well in California, and we think there is potential.”
DeSantis, however, has had missteps even in states where his team sees potential. During a February trip to Staten Island hosted by the New York State Fraternal Order of Police and designed to highlight his law enforcement agenda, he didn’t reach out to key players in the state’s Republican Party. The move was viewed by some as a snub, even among Republicans in the state who have been supportive of him.
“DeSantis kind of has a reputation here for not playing well in the sandbox,” said a New York Republican who wasn’t invited to the event. “In some states you can go around the state party; not here. There is real power down to the county level.”
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- Morrow
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It's the only avenue that DeSantis's consultants have that presents a path to getting a paycheck for another year.
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Apr 6, 2023 20:21
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- nine-gear crow
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DeSantis and his political team are inexplicably modeling their 2024 campaign strategy after... Rudy Giuliani's 2008 Presidential campaign.
One of his political consultants in Michigan even makes the argument that the campaign is strategizing for a nomination that is decided at the convention after Trump dominates the early states and Republicans who want to win in 2024 rally around DeSantis afterwards.
Some wild political strategy that involves intentionally losing the first 12 primaries and surging after that.
https://mobile.twitter.com/aterkel/status/1643971657877389312
Ah yes, a stunningly brilliant idea for your campaign for president against the man who destroyed Rudy Giuliani with the phrase "A noun, a verb, and 9/11" to then model it after... let me see if I got this right here... RUDY GIULIANI?! 
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Apr 6, 2023 20:28
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- Leon Trotsky 2012
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Jamelle Bouie pretty much sums up my thoughts on this.
But, I legitimately can't believe that DeSantis is hiring people who are recommending this, that he thinks this is a good idea and is following through with it, and that nobody else on his team is pushing back on this.
It has an extreme contrarian "nobody has ever done this before because it is so obviously dumb, but that means that nobody has REALLY tried it before" energy.
Baffling that this is what $117 million - before even announcing - is buying him.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jbouie/status/1643974202431782912
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Apr 6, 2023 20:34
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- nine-gear crow
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"it's not blood, it's victory wine"
DeSantis's strategy DOES appear to be the "doing a sick burnout in the parking lot and when the smoke clears I'm lying dead on the pavement" tactic.
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Apr 6, 2023 20:44
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- Eric Cantonese
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In a way, wasn't that how Biden ended up winning last time, though? Sanders was way ahead on delegate count and everything in the early states, until Super Tuesday, when the more conservative Dems rallied around Biden and the number of delegates flooding his way ended up totally upending that race.
It's a theoretical way for DeSantis to win, but I still haven't heard any real rational reason why he's supposed to be a "better" choice than Trump would be, or why later states would rally around him if Trump already has the momentum of an early lead.
If Klobuchar or Buttigieg or Harris or even Warren managed to get some real momentum (and not just media hype) out of the early primaries, Biden would have just sputtered out.
Biden's late approach only looked like it worked out because the other "moderate" candidates kept cannibalizing themselves.
DeSantis does not have this dynamic running against Trump.
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Apr 6, 2023 20:59
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- 7c Nickel
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People have bad memories, Biden was ahead in polls for 95% of the race.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html
7c Nickel fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Apr 6, 2023
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Apr 6, 2023 21:01
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- Leon Trotsky 2012
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YOU CAN TRUST ME!*
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The IRS announced that, with the $80 billion in new funding they received from the IRA, they will be overhauling the entire agency.
Their plan includes:
- Hiring 30,000 new employees to work customer service jobs and 57,000 employees to reduce attrition and double the agency's staff.
- The new staff will also be used to increase audits of businesses and the wealthy by 10x to about 4.5% to 5% from the current 0.4% (with an additional goal of 20% of filings reporting greater than $400,000 in income receiving manual reviews - not full audits that require additional participation from the filer).
- Debuting a pilot program to allow people to file their taxes online through the IRS website and have live customer support assist them in filing through secure online portals.
- Introducing their own free IRS tax prep software for the nearly 70% of people who qualify for free online filing.
- Introducing new document scanners, IT upgrades, and electronic record keeping systems.
The IRS is taking a big gamble doing this because Republicans have threatened to cut their budget and repeal the IRA funding. If they do, then they will run out of money for their IT upgrades by 2027 and be unable to complete them without new funds being appropriated.
quote:IRS overhaul aims for tenfold increase in audits of the wealthy
Officials plan to use funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to improve IRS customer service and claw back unpaid sums from wealthy tax dodgers
The IRS hopes to increase tax audits on the wealthiest taxpayers tenfold under the Biden administration’s plan for the agency, according to a senior administration official and the IRS’s new strategic operating plan.
IRS and Treasury Department officials said Thursday that they will use $80 billion in new funding for the tax service to claw back unpaid balances from high-income earners and complex businesses — restoring audits on those taxpayers to higher rates from more than a decade ago — and boost customer service resources for middle- and low-income tax filers.
The agency plans to digitize its tax-processing pipeline and begin developing a government-backed online tax-filing software with money from the Inflation Reduction Act, one of President Biden’s chief legislative victories, officials announced in a 149-page report.
Retooling the IRS, which languished for more than a decade with budget and staffing shortages, was a key provision in the legislation to pay for spending on climate change and health care.
But it also appealed to Biden and Democrats’ political base as the president readies for a reelection campaign in which he’s signaled a populist economic appeal will be a central cause. He’s pledged not to increase taxes or audit rates on those making $400,000 or less.
“The tax system is not fair. It is not fair,” Biden said during his State of the Union address. “No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a schoolteacher or a firefighter. I mean it.”
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, who was confirmed to his post last month and had a ceremonial swearing-in this week, said in the report that his agency would create a “world-class customer service operation” where “Americans have confidence that all taxpayers, regardless of means, are doing their part to meet their responsibilities under our tax laws.”
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said in an interview that the IRS hopes to increase audit rates on wealthy individuals to 2011 levels, before congressional Republicans slashed its budget for five consecutive years.
“One of the things that people talk about when they say that the tax code is unfair is, if you’re low-income, you’re more likely to be audited than if you’re wealthy,” Adeyemo said in an interview. “That is not consistent with tax fairness.”
The IRS will hire hundreds of employees in the coming years with skills to undertake those audits and to transform the agency’s technology to better spot noncompliance. Werfel is set to brief lawmakers later this month on the agency’s hiring plans, the official said.
In 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, the IRS audited 0.4 percent of taxpayers earning at least $500,000, down from 4.5 percent in 2011.
The most impoverished filers in 2019, those reporting zero positive income, were audited 0.8 percent of the time, more than twice the rate of wealthier taxpayers the same year.
Republicans have criticized the IRS expansion, saying it would “supersize” the agency. Some falsely claimed it would lead armed government agents to harass taxpayers, prompting threats against agency employees.
“Despite what some might think or say, these public servants within the IRS are armed only with calculators and their skills to help us address complex issues,” Werfel said in remarks Tuesday after his ceremonial swearing-in.
The IRS has already spent nearly $850 million to improve taxpayer services and the agency’s ailing technology.
The IRS plans to introduce services to allow taxpayers to complete their returns electronically and solicit help from customer service representatives through secure online portals, according to the report.
It will invest in digital scanning technology for paper tax returns. Roughly 10 percent of filers submit hard-copy returns, bogging down the agency with millions of pieces of paper. Werfel said the IRS will spend Inflation Reduction Act money to purchase more scanning equipment, with the goal of eliminating the paper backlogs that snarled the 2022 tax season.
“The vision is that you’re going to be able to interact with the IRS the way you would any other company,” Adeyemo said.
The agency is also in the midst of commissioning a report on the feasibility of its own tax prep software. The IRS diverts online filers to private firms such as Intuit TurboTax and H&R Block to file taxes electronically. Nearly 70 percent of taxpayers qualify for “IRS Free File,” which directs them to other software programs.
Instead, with the new funding, the agency will consider a “question-based electronic service to prepare and file tax returns directly with the IRS,” the report states. The IRS commissioned a study on such a program with the left-leaning New America think tank this year.
The IRS’s new operating plan fulfills an Inflation Reduction Act goal by “eliminating the two-tiered tax system that has allowed the wealthy and well-connected to play by one set of rules and everyone else by another,” said Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), the ranking Democratic member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
But the tax service’s report cautioned that the Inflation Reduction Act funding alone would not be enough for the IRS’s technology, customer service and compliance improvements.
The agency warned that budget cuts — or even just small increases that do not keep pace with inflation — would derail its transformation, forcing it to divert money meant to be spent on IT upgrades or taxpayer services to keep its head above water in coming tax seasons.
“To fund the government, you need an effectively functioning and fair Internal Revenue Service,” said Mark Everson, who served as IRS commissioner from 2003 to 2007 and was briefed on the strategic plan by administration officials. “Things have gotten so complex, and there have been so many changes, and yet the service has clearly not been able to keep up.”
If Congress cuts the IRS’s budget in 2024 or does not factor inflationary costs into the agency’s annual appropriation, the agency would exhaust its $3.2 billion in IRA taxpayer services funding within four years, the report says. The agency will also be unable to fund its IT modernization projects without additional funding from Congress.
That’s a risky position for the IRS, which frequently finds itself in partisan crosshairs, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative think tank American Action Forum and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office. House Republicans have passed legislation to strip the IRS of much of the Inflation Reduction Act funding, (The Democratic-controlled Senate is unlikely to take up the bill.)
Appearing to give Congress an ultimatum about the IRS’s capabilities, he said, rather than working with lawmakers to secure more funding, could spell trouble.
“Don’t blackmail people,” Holtz-Eakin said, “give them options. This should be about the [IRS’s] plans, and not what the Congress does.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/06/biden-irs-tax-audit-wealthy/
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- Jaxyon
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I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.
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Pay for all the projects up front, overpay if you have to.
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In a way, wasn't that how Biden ended up winning last time, though? Sanders was way ahead on delegate count and everything in the early states, until Super Tuesday, when the more conservative Dems rallied around Biden and the number of delegates flooding his way ended up totally upending that race.
It's a theoretical way for DeSantis to win, but I still haven't heard any real rational reason why he's supposed to be a "better" choice than Trump would be, or why later states would rally around him if Trump already has the momentum of an early lead.
Super Tuesday is pretty early - there's only four states before that.
The article says DeSantis is betting on losing Super Tuesday, and making up for it by winning states that'll be holding their primaries weeks later, like California, New York, and Pennsylvania. It's an utterly terrible idea. DeSantis desperately needs to show he's a credible candidate who has a shot against Trump, or else all his money and support will abandon him. If he blows off all the Feb and March races figuring he can make up the points later, it'll be impossible for him to scrub off the stench of a loser.
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Apr 6, 2023 21:29
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Here is another reason why his strategy is stupid:
Let's say for WHATEVER reason Trump isn't all the ballot. If you cede early states to someone else, THEY get the momentum and media coverage, THEY get the money, and THEY get to claim credibility. His strategist is playing for a tie and hoping the delegates back DeSantis. It's literally saying we don't have any appeal anywhere but we'll win on a technicality of the rules and hope you get behind it.
edit: Like honestly, he should focus on ONE of New Hampshire or Iowa at least.
Mooseontheloose fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Apr 6, 2023
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- XboxPants
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Steven doesn't want me watching him sleep anymore.
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It's possible that it hasn't been processed yet or that her son has a different last name than her, but there is no minor with the last name of Jones who was charged with a crime in Florida in the last 24 hours in NCIC.
If you're looking for more details, most of the info seems to be coming from local Florida outlet Pensacola News Journal: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crim...ns/70088634007/
They claim the son has been put on home detention with a monitor, and have specific quotes about wanting to do a school shooting that are allegedly from him. I get how it would have been scary as gently caress for the mom, but unless this is being wildly misrepresented, it looks like this is the system functioning as we would want it to. Or at least, it's better than ignoring it when kids are making threats to shoot up a school.
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- Fritz the Horse
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while comparisons between the 2020 and potential 2024 primary/general are certainly relevant, let's avoid relitigating the 2020 primaries
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Rather then rehash primary chat again, how about this, the Biden admin has seen how far red states have gone in criminalizing trans lives, and decided, hey maybe they had some good ides when they were pushing this last year before settling on kill all those groomer freaks:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/educ..._source=twitter
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The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new regulations that would allow schools to bar transgender athletes from participating in competitive high school and college sports, but disallow blanket bans on the athletes that have been approved across the country.
The proposal was met with mixed reaction from transgender rights activists, with some saying that it provided a welcome set of protections for trans students and others saying the regulations could offer a roadmap for those who want to discriminate.
Specifically, the department’s proposal requires schools that wish to limit trans athletes’ participation to show that the decision relates to an important educational objective and minimizes harm to others.
“The proposed rule … recognizes that in some instances, particularly in competitive high school and college athletic environments, some schools may adopt policies that limit transgender students’ participation,” the Education Department said in a fact sheet. It said the proposal would give schools “the flexibility to develop their own participation policies.”
Supreme Court refuses to reinstate West Virginia’s transgender athlete ban
Under the proposal, blanket or categorical bans on all trans athletes would not be allowed, setting up a clash with Republican-led states that have enacted sweeping prohibitions.
Just this week, legislators in Kansas overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to impose a ban on transgender athletes in kindergarten through college. Kansas was the 20th state to impose such a ban, according to tracking by the Movement Advancement Project, a think tank that supports transgender rights.
There have been numerous court challenges to these laws, including one in West Virginia, where the law is on hold. On Thursday, the Supreme Court refused to immediately reinstate that law, which bars transgender athletes from playing on female sports teams from middle school through college. The law defines eligibility for certain sex-specific teams to “be based solely on the individual’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
The case was the high court’s first examination of restrictions on transgender athletes, but was not a decision on the merits of the case.
The new Biden administration proposal puts forth a framework for developing eligibility criteria that schools can use to be in compliance with Title IX, the 50-year-old federal law that bars schools from discriminating on the basis of sex. The Education Department has already said, in a regulation proposed last summer, that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is also barred under Title IX.
Schools that want to limit trans athletes’ participation in sports would have to consider the sport, the level of competition, and the grade or education level involved. For instance, the administration said, elementary school sports should be generally open to transgender students but bans could be allowed for older students, especially at the high school and college levels.
It noted that some teams require advanced skills and others allow anyone to participate, such as intramural or junior varsity squads, and said rules must “reflect these differences in competition.”
This, the administration said, was to ensure objectives such as fairness in competition.
Kentucky’s lone transgender athlete can’t play on the team she helped start
The proposed rules, which will be subject to public comment, are the administration’s interpretation of the federal Title IX law, and would apply to all public K-12 schools, as well as colleges and universities that receive federal funding.
The issue has become politically hot across the country, driven by Republicans who oppose transgender rights, even though a small share of people identify as transgender and only a limited number of actual cases have raised concerns. Numerous court challenges already are pending, filed by people on both sides of the debate.
Polling last year from the Pew Research Center and Gallup found 0.6 percent of American adults identified as transgender, though among young adults, the share was about 2 percent.
The Biden administration has moved deliberately on this issue. Last summer, the Education Department issued regulations making clear that under Title IX, schools also may not discriminate against students on the basis of gender identity. But the administration put off the question of sports participation amid concerns about the politics of the issue ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
Polling shows a majority of Americans oppose allowing transgender women to compete in sports. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll last year found 55 percent of Americans opposed allowing trans women and girls to compete with cisgender women and girls in high school sports, and 58 percent opposed to it for college and professional sports. About 3 in 10 said they should be allowed to compete at each of these levels, while another 15 percent had no opinion.
Similarly, in May 2022, Pew found 58 percent of adults saying they favor laws that require trans athletes to compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth.
A senior administration official said the department considered a wide range of views in writing its proposal.
Supporters of these measures say that allowing transgender girls and women to compete puts cisgender girls and women at a competitive disadvantage because their sex is male so therefore their bodies tend to be stronger and faster.
And at least one suit argues that allowing trans women to compete violates Title IX, saying it compromises the rights of cisgender girls who compete against them.
Between this and their push to re-enact much of Trump's immigration policies, just despicable, vile poo poo coming from this administration.
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- Captain_Maclaine
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Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!
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Which one did they voluntarily lobotomize again?
That was Rosemary, Robert and JFK's sister.
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Apr 6, 2023 22:28
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If you're looking for more details, most of the info seems to be coming from local Florida outlet Pensacola News Journal: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crim...ns/70088634007/
They claim the son has been put on home detention with a monitor, and have specific quotes about wanting to do a school shooting that are allegedly from him. I get how it would have been scary as gently caress for the mom, but unless this is being wildly misrepresented, it looks like this is the system functioning as we would want it to. Or at least, it's better than ignoring it when kids are making threats to shoot up a school.
The abnormal part is apparently sending an operative posing as a family member of a friend to monitor the chat. That’s some gestapo poo poo.
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I’m just saying I would like to see a man beat a woman in a cage. Just to be sure.
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Rather then rehash primary chat again, how about this, the Biden admin has seen how far red states have gone in criminalizing trans lives, and decided, hey maybe they had some good ides when they were pushing this last year before settling on kill all those groomer freaks:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/educ..._source=twitter
Between this and their push to re-enact much of Trump's immigration policies, just despicable, vile poo poo coming from this administration.
Absolutely gross
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