Want To Have Provide Written Documentation of Rape or Incest to an IRS Agent?

[gehayi]

Guess what? The Republicans want to make rape, incest and survival subjects for IRS audits! Not only that, they want to narrow the definition of what rape IS.

And it looks like they might succeed on both counts.

Thomas Barthold, the chief of staff of the nonpartisan Joint Tax Committee, confirmed that one consequence of the Republicans' "No

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[lesbido]

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Douchebag.

That is all.

[gehayi]

And what's scary is that there are so many of them supporting it.

You know what's really stupid? Most tax agents do NOT want this bill to pass. The people who deal with taxes as a profession think it's a bad idea!

[black_castle]

This.

Then this bill would also attack the poor, who would most likely be the ones who receive tax credits.

Fortunately, the poor rarely get audited...they don't make enough money to draw attention.

[iolarah]

[gehayi]

I don't know. For some reason, it's not considered bribery if the cash comes from a political action committee.

you have to give IRS auditors proof that your abortion was justifiedYou'd have to give IRS auditors documentation IN WRITING and that was written at the time you became pregnant that your pregnancy was caused by "forcible rape" (the Rethugicans don't consider statutory rape to be rape, you see) or incest, or was life-threatening. If you don't have written documentation that you were forcibly raped, that you were a minor who was a victim of incest (because an adult couldn't possibly be forced to have sex with her father, brother or uncle, of COURSE not), or that you had a pregnancy deemed life-threatening, they see no reason for you to have an abortion

[aequanoctis]

The war on women, waging on