Highlights: House Republicans are proposing funding $14 billion in aid to Israel by cutting additional money for divisions of the IRS tasked with making sure wealthy people and tax cheats pay their fair share, according to a new bill filed Monday.
The bill would also eliminate a task force intended to design a free direct e-file tax return system that could wind up competing with TurboTaxāa change that the company, and politicians, particularly Republicans, have fought. Advocates have said such a system could save taxpayers billions of dollars, and millions of hours of prep time, per year.
The GOPās latest bill matches $14 billion Bidenās funding request for Israel in numberābut not in its proposed approach.
The thought ofāas my colleague David Corn put it in Mother Jonesā internal Slack channelāāletting billionaires cheat to pay for bombs to drop on civiliansā is jarring, particularly given the more than 3,500 children that Gaza health authorities say have been killed by the Israeli airstrikes; heartbreaking photos and videos have shown kids covered in blood and dust and collapsing while coping with living through the trauma of war and losing loved ones.
How many more billions does Israel need? If I was American I would be ashamed to fund a colonial ethnostate.
Yes, many of us are.
Idk, youāre fine with mass casualties of civilians if theyāre Israeli? Hamas has fired thousands of rockets at civilian population centers in Israel. Thanks to the Iron Dome, most of those rockets were intercepted.
Imagine Israelās response in Gaza if that wasnāt the case.
Still enacting a genocide? You want peace go in aid the Palestinians, incorporate them into your economy, allow them jobs, education, and a better life then under hammas direction, the Palestinians population is mainly young and stuck in an authoritarian regime help them help you ffs, you donāt bomb them to create more hammas fighters and complain. Nor do I give justification for genocide in any bearing, especially not because this one is less worse than what they would do unabated ffsā¦
Yes, Hamas is bad. Ok, I accept that. We all accept it in fact.
Israel is not free from criticism, and by allying with democratic nations, they signed a contract to be judged by their behaviors and to have their history judged.
Arguably, the most moral position is to leave Middle East to fend for itself until they get their religious extremism problem fixed.
āGenocide is badā is a pretty comfortable hill to die on
Youāre pretty ignorant to be spouting this shit at this point. Israel has been trying to fuck over Palestine for almost a goddamn century now. Hamas is a response to decades of oppression from the Israeli govt. Does that excuse Hamas? Fuck no it doesnāt, but Israel is still much more in the wrong than Palestine ever was or could be at this point.
Youāre pretty ignorant to be spouting that shit. It shows you understand 0% of whatās going on in the middle east.
Very mature response.
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