{"id":56627,"date":"2024-09-22T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56627"},"modified":"2024-09-22T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:04:55","slug":"rewarding-the-hand-that-feeds-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56627","title":{"rendered":"Rewarding The Hand That Feeds You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are people in America who will vote for Kamala Harris for many reasons&#8211;the idea of a woman President, the idea of a mixed-race President, and the idea that a Harris presidency will provide free money for a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/mrctv.org\/blog\/craig-bannister\/irs-agents-union-endorses-kamala-harris-cites-inflation-reduction-act-windfall?fbclid=IwY2xjawFbwYRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRhcksFlFh8PWDMbg2ow_jj7i58hJi5mhVeygyuSDh1BCS4qKcGDKF9X6Q_aem_Nvw7_q7rOhKUyYI57npZoQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mrctv<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The union that represents the nation\u2019s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents announced Wednesday that it is endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris for president in this year\u2019s election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Vice President Harris has played a role in \u201cone of the most pro-labor administrations in history,\u201d the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nteu.org\/media-center\/news-releases\/2024\/09\/18\/endorsementrelease?hatchact=non-government-computer\">press release<\/a> announcing its decision:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cThe administration also delivered agency budgets that provide federal employees with additional staffing and resources, including significant new investments to rebuild the IRS under the Inflation Reduction Act.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Indeed, the Inflation Reduction Act, for which Harris cast the deciding vote to break a Senate deadlock, boosts the IRS budget by $80 billion, enabling the agency to hire an additional 87,000 employees \u2013 while increasing the union\u2019s membership in the process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>However, the IRS expansion won\u2019t just increase union membership, it\u2019ll also help the agency to collect an additional $5 trillion of tax increases Harris wants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atr.org\/irs-agents-endorse-kamala-harris\/\">analysis<\/a> by Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) finds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">\u201c<strong>Harris-proposed tax increases will kill jobs in the private sector but create jobs for IRS agents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>\u201cAgents certainly appreciate her call to make the IRS even larger and more powerful if she wins the presidency. Agents will be hired and deployed to implement the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atr.org\/5-trillion-list-of-tax-hikes-kamala-harris-just-endorsed\/\">$5 trillion of tax increases<\/a> Harris wishes to impose over the next decade.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>ATR research also found that 97% of political contributions by the IRS agents\u2019 union went to Democrats in the 2022 election cycle. In all, the union gave $635,170 to Democrats during that election cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing like supporting your local IRS agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are people in America who will vote for Kamala Harris for many reasons&#8211;the idea of a woman President, the idea of a mixed-race President, and the idea that a Harris presidency will provide free money for a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15120,853,14827,1290,15597,284,8625,5747,10745,2016,4473,10740],"class_list":["post-56627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-americans-for-tax-reform","tag-democrats","tag-federal-employees","tag-government","tag-inflation-reduction-act","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-kamala-harris","tag-national-treasury-employees-union","tag-political-contributions","tag-revenue","tag-tax-increases","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56628,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56627\/revisions\/56628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}