{"id":26108,"date":"2022-08-12T11:54:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26108"},"modified":"2022-08-12T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:54:32","slug":"image-of-the-day-irs-collected-record-taxes-through-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26108\/image-of-the-day-irs-collected-record-taxes-through-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  IRS Collected Record Taxes Through July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/6018-fbi-trump-raid-casts-manchin-schumer-irs-empowerment-bill-in-even-more-sinister-light-\">Liberty Update<\/a> highlights the danger of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that&#8217;s about to enjoy a <em>doubling<\/em> of funding and personnel via the abominable Manchin-Schumer &#8220;compromise&#8221; tax-and-spend-and-regulate bill.\u00a0 Apologists for the bill rationalize that a turbocharged IRS is necessary to collect more taxes from the American people (and we highlight in our piece how Americans earning under $200,000, not the &#8220;rich,&#8221; will be the primary targets).\u00a0 The U.S. Treasury Department, however, just reported that the federal government just collected a record amount of taxes so far this fiscal year.\u00a0 The obvious problem isn&#8217;t insufficient funding of the federal government, but rather excessive spending:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cnsnews.com\/styles\/article_big\/s3\/2022-08\/taxch1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest Liberty Update highlights the danger of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that&#8217;s about to enjoy a doubling of funding and personnel via the abominable Manchin-Schumer &#8220;compromise&#8221; tax-and-spend-and-regulate bill.\u00a0 Apologists for the bill rationalize that a turbocharged IRS is necessary to collect more taxes from the American people (and we highlight in our piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2464,735,5181,61,71],"class_list":["post-26108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-manchin","tag-spending","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26109,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26108\/revisions\/26109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}