{"id":2935,"date":"2025-06-13T02:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/06\/billy-longs-confirmation-as-irs-commissioner-is-good-news-only-for-tax-cheats\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T02:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:19:52","slug":"billy-longs-confirmation-as-irs-commissioner-is-good-news-only-for-tax-cheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2935","title":{"rendered":"Billy Long\u2019s Confirmation as IRS Commissioner is Good News Only For Tax Cheats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, Senate Republicans voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/billy-long-confirmed-irs-commissioner-67cd8daaa53a53c4ebf1262de1ede5e6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">confirm<\/a> Billy Long as IRS Commissioner. <strong>Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTax cheats just received a huge gift. Billy Long has a clear history of working to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to skirt paying their fair share of taxes. He has even supported abolishing the very agency he has now been tasked to lead \u2013 the agency meant to take the lead in cracking down on tax evasion and ensuring that government is sufficiently resourced to serve the public interest. Wall Street may celebrate his confirmation as IRS Commissioner, but it is bad news for everyday people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Senate Republicans voted to confirm Billy Long as IRS Commissioner. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement: \u201cTax cheats just received a huge gift. Billy Long has a clear history of working to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to skirt paying their fair share of taxes. He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}