We have become so unhinged from our original Constitutional moorings that stuff

This is a whole big bundle of stupid now matter how you cut it.

Re: This is a whole big bundle of stupid now matter how you cut it.

Every politician is trying to buy votes one way or another.

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Mar 23, 2024, 7:37 AM

like this Biden $10k tax credit for selling a "starter home" (using whatever goofy meaning the IRS or Government will attach to defining a "starter home") hardly raises an eyebrow. Our Federal Government has absolutely no Constitutional business in this yet it has become an accepted norm...

Politicians look at the IRS and the US tax code and see it as a nothing but a political opportunity. They use it to funnel money to preferred constituencies, to modify and encourage/discourage desired public behavior, and have no problem using the IRS processes and the tax code as a weapon to punish their opponents or people they simply don't like. The IRS is among the crown jewels of their inner authoritarian carrot and stick approach to governing.

If anyone wants to know the wellspring from which US "crony capitalism" flows - where the Government routinely interferes in the free market to pick the winners and losers - then look no further than the US tax code. Our political class manipulates reams of bureaucratic agency regulations and the US tax code with its thousands of pages of loopholes, credits, and carved out exceptions to tighten their control over everything. To be sure - the political class are clever at selling their manipulations as a benevolent and morally righteous pig but beneath their rhetorical masks is an ugly, fat, fascistic swine whose appetite for more power is never satisfied.