Just one example of how to fix the terrible inequities in the tax code so it doesn't privilege the rich comes from the source of Trump's audit: the $72.9 million refund for carryback losses. Why was that refund given, and THEN checked out?
As the Times notes, the Joint Committee on Taxation reviews every refund of over $2 million to individuals. Why do we GIVE THE REFUND first and then review it?
JCT could review and only release the funds afterward. Anyone entitled to a refund of over $2 million is highly unlikely to need that refund quickly.
Making the refund contingent on JCT's review changes completely the dynamic of the audit. The IRS wouldn't be pleading with the rich person to give up their gains, because they wouldn't have them yet.
Sure, Trump or whoever could appeal the ruling, but they wouldn't be in the position of using the millions they may have illegally received because the current system routinely blocks poor people from their money but speeds it to the rich.
You could come up with 1,000 just-as-simple options to make the tax system not quite so attentive to the concerns of the wealthy. But then who would pay the campaign contributions I guess-
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