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So will the IRS.
Only because we keep gutting their funding, and making them stay 40 years in the past with documentation. They go after the easier marks.
If they had more resources, and they could modernize, they could more effectively go after the wealthy, but decades of "iRs bAD" propaganda has kneecapped their public perception, and their ability to do their jobs against billionaires.
While you're not wrong, part of the problem is that we can't just give the IRS money and cross our fingers that they'll go after the billionaires. Without any legislative teeth backing it up, there is a sizeable chance they'll keep going after the easy marks first.
With enough resources they'll run out of easy targets faster and they'll have to go for harder ones.
Yeah, and that's terrible. I don't want the IRS going after everybody that failed to report the $2 in royalties they get from their self-published book before they go after Amazon.
I want them to prioritize high-value targets over easy marks, and I don't think giving them a carte blanche is a way to achieve that.
The funny thing is that all IRS inspectors (or the equivalent in other countries) always say the same: they go after the easy targets because they don't have resources to go after the hard ones. I assume they have to have a minimum work as finished.