Our IRS’s $80 billion in new funding over the next 10 years, despite Republicans usually blocking needed funding for the agency, will abet closing the “tax gap” (difference between taxes owed and taxes paid). Up to 87,000 new IRS hires will go after people and businesses not paying owed taxes. The miscreants are the super wealthy. Some of those hide out in NH. A clever CEO can take no “income.” Bernie Sanders promoted a wealth tax instead of income tax. Those worth more than $32 million if taxed on their wealth, could net the public purse $4.35 trillion over the next decade “and cut the wealth of billionaires in half over 15 years, substantially breaking up the concentration of wealth and power of this small, privileged class.”
This relates to our NH primary, coming up September 13th. The Republican leadership, filtering down from distant desks to our hinterlands, maintains a nice tone deceiving the public about the ailing old party’s goals. They redistrict for their advantage and decrease voting opportunities. Our ballot lines will need public-oriented candidate names, even the Republican lines, if possible. These primary choices yield our so important November ballot with local offices but also senatorial and congressional. Bad Republican candidates could steer independents to vote for the Democrats, who, under President Biden, high office and lower, take on the muddle left by Trump and his sidekick Mitch McConnell who governs the U.S. Senate Republicans not to do much, just block.
Lynn Rudmin Chong
Sanbornton