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Washington Recently, the Internal Revenue Service has gotten a lot of attention on social media -- specifically, an obscure proposal by the Biden administration to widen the authority to root out tax evasion by allowing the IRS to get annual, aggregated reports of flows from bank accounts with a minimum of $600.
But it's not Biden officials or Democrats who are pushing the topic most aggressively on Twitter and other platforms. It's Republicans and right-wing media outlets attacking the proposal as a violation of privacy and arguing that the IRS would be improperly spying on everyday Americans' bank accounts.Over the past several days Sen. Tom Cotton, Fox News host Sean Hannity, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Rep.
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