On the recordAugust 12, 2022
Mr. Speaker, what a time to raise taxes and to spend nearly $1 trillion more. The economy is in a recession, food inflation is up 12.9 percent over the past year, gas is up 49 percent, and shelter costs rose by 5.7 percent. What will families get instead of relief? They will get $10.6 billion in tax increases, and 50 percent more may get audited by the IRS. Now, the chairman on the other side has disputed these 87,000 new agents. I would ask him to read page 37 of the bill which provides for $45 billion in new funding to the IRS, specifically for enforcement activities, and ask if he will dispute that as well. Where does he think $45 billion is going to go? In fact, we all know the IRS needs a lot of help to provide constituent services. Fourteen times more dollars are going for enforcement than to helping them do their job. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
