Donald Trump is not as popular as everyone thinks
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On Super Tuesday, the former president lost the state of Vermont and more than 2 million votes to Nikki Haley.

Despite resounding victories on Super Tuesday, there are indications that Donald Trump is still struggling to get strong, united Republican support, which he may need in the presidential election.

Speaking to CNN about the Super Tuesday results, columnist and political commentator Molly Jong-Fast said: "There is a real ‘Never Trump’ contingent, and remember, Trump is a primary candidate. He has only ever tried to appeal to Republican primary voters, and he cannot marshal that group together the way he needs to.

“Part of his trick in 2016 was, he got these low-frequency voters out, these people who almost never voted, which is why the polling was so off, and you’re just not seeing that same type of enthusiasm.”

  • mommykink@lemmy.world
    22·
    8 months ago

    Poor people are audited at a rate of 5x more often than the rich and that trend hasn’t changed in the 2 years since the IRA was passed. The problems with the IRS aren’t from funding, they’re systemic, and the system is working exactly as intended. The IRS needs a complete defunding and rebuilding, but the idea that anything will improve for the average person with a better-funded IRS would be hilarious if not for the fact that so many people believe it.

    Less corrupt than private corporations and lobbyists? Of course. Take a look at something like the Roosevelt-era WPA to see what a properly-administered infrastructure project is supposed to be like, versus the lowest-bidder, private subsidies, inefficient system we have now.

      • mommykink@lemmy.world
        21·
        8 months ago

        Absolutely no source given.

        Meanwhile:

        a ProPublica analysis found that someone making $20,000 a year was far more likely to be audited than a person making $400,000.

        Source

        …low-income households with less than $25,000 in annual earnings.  This group is five times as likely to be audited by the IRS as everyone else, according to a new analysis of IRS data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.

        Source

        Both articles written within the past two years.

        The US needs a massive tax law overhaul before any further funding for the IRS will benefit the average citizen.

        • AA5B@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          They’re cherry-picking the numbers, comparing the lowest income demographic against the lowest audit rate demographic. The lowest audit rate demographic includes most taxpayers, starting at very low income. That a look at this chart clearly showing that wealthy are audited at a much higher rate

          Also your own source says most of those EITC audits are “correspondence”. I’ve been through one: IRS sent mail saying they think I made a mistake and showed the correct value. I said “oops”, and returned the correction. Nothing to it. This is not the big scary audit people are afraid of