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 TurboTaxā€”a 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 GOPā€™s latest bill matches $14 billion Bidenā€™s funding request for Israel in numberā€”but not in its proposed approach.

The thought ofā€”as my colleague David Corn put it in Mother Jonesā€˜ internal Slack channelā€”ā€letting 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.

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    1 year ago

    Youā€™re 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 doesnā€™t, but Israel is still much more in the wrong than Palestine ever was or could be at this point.