{"id":9124,"date":"2022-10-23T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9124"},"modified":"2022-10-23T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T14:46:05","slug":"fact-checking-industry-continues-providing-cover-for-white-houses-unbelievable-irs-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9124","title":{"rendered":"Fact-Checking Industry Continues Providing Cover for White House&#8217;s Unbelievable IRS Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crsreports.congress.gov\/product\/pdf\/IN\/IN11977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congressional Research Service<\/a>&nbsp;(CRS), the Inflation Reduction Act directs the $80 billion in additional IRS funding to the following four enumerated divisions: &#8220;enforcement&#8221; ($45.7 billion), &#8220;operations support&#8221; ($25.3 billion), &#8220;business systems modernization&#8221; ($4.7 billion), and &#8220;taxpayer services&#8221; ($3.2 billion)&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The Treasury Department spokesperson would have us believe that 50.01 percent of newly created positions funded by this $80 billion injection will work in the divisions receiving just 10 percent of the money.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/08\/19\/fact-checking-industry-continues-providing-cover-for-white-houses-unbelievable-irs-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/08\/19\/fact-checking-industry-continues-providing-cover-for-white-houses-unbelievable-irs-claims\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the Inflation Reduction Act directs the $80 billion in additional IRS funding to the following four enumerated divisions: &#8220;enforcement&#8221; ($45.7 billion), &#8220;operations support&#8221; ($25.3 billion), &#8220;business systems modernization&#8221; ($4.7 billion), and &#8220;taxpayer services&#8221; ($3.2 billion)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Treasury Department spokesperson would have us believe that 50.01 percent of newly created positions funded by this $80 billion injection will work in the divisions receiving just 10 percent of the money.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1303],"class_list":["post-9124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-irs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9125,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9124\/revisions\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}