Treasury Secretary Mnuchin

might be ok: https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/steven-mnuchin-makes-a-welcome-case-f...

Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, is making a surprising, and welcome, case for boosting funding for the Internal Revenue Service, correctly calling it understaffed and “under-resourced,” and arguing that it should be exempt from Trump’s federal hiring freeze.

It may not be popular to say, but the IRS needs more funding. Unpaid federal taxes are almost as large as the entire federal budget deficit. Money is being left on the table. People and businesses who don’t pay what they owe are, in Trump’s lingo, “making a killing.” But when people don’t pay their taxes, they are not just cheating the government. They are ripping off their neighbors. Adequately funding the IRS could raise revenues significantly and give the public assurances that the system isn’t rigged in favor of the wealthy.

Adjusted for inflation, IRS funding in 2016 was the same as in 1998. As a result, IRS employment has fallen about 27 percent – by 30,000 workers – since then.

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