Analyzing the structural behavior of the IRS and comparing to modern emergent redefinitions of the term ‘racism.’

Handwaving Freakoutery

The Inflation Reduction Act took it on the chin a week ago with lots of people sharing a not totally true yet not entirely false either statistic that the bill included provisions to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, and that those IRS agents would be targeting the poor. Let’s unpack this with maps, explain why the maps look like they do, and cross-reference those against the emergent “systemic racism” concept within the modern American left, to see what we can discover.

Maps

ProPublica, an emergent investigative journalism outfit that tends to run counter-narrative in both directions at times, published an analysis in 2019 showing a map of disproportionate IRS audits.

The first thing to notice in this map, is basically none of the coastal elite liberal centers are being audited disproportionately. Nothing north of the Mason Dixon line, nothing in the denser Pacific Rim population centers, and nothing in the blue areas of the Midwest. So that feeds the red tribe paranoia that they’re being disproportionately targeted by government institutions, and may feed an internal blue tribe narrative that they’re the ones who follow the law and those evil red tribers are breaking it and need to be punished for doing so.

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