The Situation: President Biden’s signing of the Inflation Discount Act, which is able to end in 87,000 new IRS hires.
The acknowledged intention of the 87,000 extra IRS hires is to solely audit folks making over $400,000; nevertheless, there’s little doubt the “witch hunt” will embody small companies and hard-working middle-class households (“Joe signs $437B IRA,” Aug. 17).
It appears Democrats’ intention is to finally recoup the billions specified by their extreme spending payments from each potential supply. So why not go after these making lower than $400,000?
These are the susceptible folks and small companies that don’t have the backing of prime tax attorneys and CPAs.
Marty Orenstein
New Hyde Park
The so-called “Inflation Discount Act” will do nothing to scale back inflation and can doubtless make it worse. It feels like one thing out of Ayn Rand’s dystopian novel, “Atlas Shrugged.”
In that story, Congress, dominated by socialists, passes the “Anti-greed Act,” the “Equalization of Alternative Act” and the “Anti Canine-Eat-Canine Act” — all of them nothing however big-government fantasies handed by power-hungry politicians that do the alternative of what they purport.
Congress hit the mega-billions jackpot with this one.
Richard Sawicki
Manhattan
We’re completely screwed. Regardless of how a lot President Biden and his equally inept administration attempt to promote their new tax-and-spend canard, journeys to the grocery retailer and gasoline station aren’t feeling any higher.
Worse, aid shouldn’t be coming anytime quickly, regardless of how the Dems are spinning it.
The Dems bought half of the nation a invoice of products, promising a return to sanity, unity and prosperity. What they delivered is a stage of corruption, incoherence and incompetence by no means earlier than seen in our authorities.
The one factor we are able to do now could be to cease the hemorrhaging in November, include the harm this administration has brought on and encourage the Republicans to revive the insurance policies of the earlier administration as shortly as potential.
Michael D’Auria
Bronxville
Wouldn’t it’s clever to allocate 87,000 personnel to the beleaguered and harassed Border Patrol as an alternative of hiring extra IRS brokers?
Since these additional IRS hires may have few millionaires and billionaires to audit, they must audit the individuals who make up the bulk in america — the poor and the center class.
All voters ought to keep in mind who voted for this boondoggle and what number of of them are Democrats who’re up for reelection this November.
It’s time to vote the rascals out. It’s in your self-interest.
Chuck Lehmann
Delray Seashore, Fla.
The Situation: Minneapolis Public Faculties’ new coverage that white academics can be let go first if layoffs are essential.
The town of Minneapolis is adopting employment insurance policies that can present race-based job protections to academics of coloration (“Defending deal to ax whites 1st,” Aug. 18).
How is that this not racist? How is it not divisive? Most necessary: How does making employment selections primarily based on what a instructor appears like present college students in Minneapolis with a greater training?
If Minneapolis seeks to diversify its workers, how about tweaking recruitment practices as an alternative of treating white academics unfairly?
Michelle Graham
Lynbrook
Gee, what an effective way to trigger chaos within the faculty system.
This can create pressure between college students of coloration and white academics, discourage any white instructor from making use of (no matter wanted abilities) and encourage any susceptible white instructor to go away instantly to hunt employment elsewhere.
Gary Layton
Interlaken, NJ
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