The proper number of people crossing the border illegally is...

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Zero.

Biden wants a much higher number.

The proper number of people cheating on their taxes is...

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Zero.

The GOP wants a much higher number.



Right? Isn't that why they objected to increasing the IRS budget? Because they wanted people to be able to cheat on their taxes, and get away with it? Because they wanted criminal tax evasion to increase and go unpunished? Is that right?

Or maybe - just maybe - it's possible for adults who are discussing political and policy issues to recognize that any regulatory enforcement mechanism has trade-offs. That there are consequences to ramping up tax enforcement. That it requires allocating resources that people might feel are better spent elsewhere or that it imposes hardships and obligations on the regulated population. That you can have concerns about the consequences of draconian enforcement without desiring that illegal behavior happen or that it go without consequences. That people of good faith can differ about the relative weight to assign the negative consequences of a draconian enforcement regime and those of the rulebreaking that happens in a less-than-draconian enforcement regime....and not falsely proclaim that the opposing position wants the rulebreaking, rather than wants to avoid the other consequences of the draconian regime.

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