Millionaires who were behind on their taxes have already paid half-a-billion dollars to get current with the IRS as the agency ratchets up high-level tax...
Yes, i.e. they’re trying to trick people into thinking progresses is being made. They’re presenting their nothingburger as some kind of win because they need a propaganda victory so people don’t do something drastic.
I feel like you didn’t read the article. This is what basically happened:
IRS got funding
a bit later, IRS says “hey! We got 500 million back so far”
here comes you: “it’s a trick!”
They didn’t use stats or any framing here. They just reported progress.
If you are being genuine at all, you are grossly misunderstanding the situation and additionally your arguments don’t make sense in the grand scheme of things: at some point of debt collection, you will collect less than 1%. From there you keep getting more.
Yes, i.e. they’re trying to trick people into thinking progresses is being made. They’re presenting their nothingburger as some kind of win because they need a propaganda victory so people don’t do something drastic.
Reporting progress isn’t a trick. It’d be a trick if that number wasn’t true.
They equally could have said “we got 3.50 from em, everyone is following the rules”. Would that be a trick if that’s what happened?
Framing numbers and statistics in a misleading way is a trick. $500 million, by itself, means nothing.
Treasury: Top 1 percent responsible for $163 billion in unpaid taxes
Americans failed to pay $688 billion in income taxes in 2021
Without this crucial context, people are tricked into thinking the IRS is making lots of progress. In reality they’ve caught less than 1% 😂
I feel like you didn’t read the article. This is what basically happened:
They didn’t use stats or any framing here. They just reported progress.
If you are being genuine at all, you are grossly misunderstanding the situation and additionally your arguments don’t make sense in the grand scheme of things: at some point of debt collection, you will collect less than 1%. From there you keep getting more.