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'Just look at its cafeteria': Tour of the IRS gives reporter a good idea of why the agency needs $80 billion

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday that none of the 87,000 new IRS agents would be auditing people who make under $400,000 a year — which is like 99 percent of taxpayers. So don’t let the GOP scare you into thinking you’re going to be audited.

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The Washington Post has gone so far as to write an opinion piece explaining why the IRS needs $80 billion more. Just look at the cafeteria — there’s, like, paperwork stacked everywhere.

The Washington Post reports:

Taxpayers are trapped in this time warp because Congress has systemically underinvested in the IRS. Its funding was cut for most of
the past decade, despite the agency receiving evermore responsibilities: stimulus checks, child tax credit payments, Obamacare enforcement, foreign bank account tracking and, lately, hunting down Russian yachts. Without reliable, long-term funding guarantees, the IRS has struggled to upgrade its systems.

I recently took a (chaperoned) tour of the Pipeline, which is usually off-limits to journalists. Imagine Willy Wonka’s secretive chocolate
factory, but instead of gumdrops and lollipops it’s … paper. Everywhere, paper.

… it’s astonishing that the system has survived this long, since it seems to be held together with duct tape and string. When I mentioned this to Desselle, the mailroom manager, he corrected me.

“That’s too generous,” he said. “It’s more like Scotch tape and string.”

If only there were some way to streamline the process without spending $80 billion additional dollars.

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Let’s do that.

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We’re seriously supposed to feel bad for the IRS because it has so much paperwork? That’s the angle they’re going with here?

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