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  The second-biggest Republican lie And the truth you should know Robert Reich Aug 30 Billionaire GOP  mega-donor  Steve Wynn has some free messaging advice for Republicans, which he proffered in a  conference call  last Wednesday with Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel and Newt Gingrich (the audio was obtained by  Politico ): He urged the GOP to run TV ads telling average working people that Democrats have funded the IRS to hammer them. Wynn even offered a script: “Tell them the IRS is ‘coming after you if you’re a waiter, if you’re a bartender, if you’re anybody with a cash business … they’re coming after you.’” Unfortunately for Wynn, the funding for the IRS in the Inflation Reduction Act targets the very wealthiest Americans — such as Steve Wynn — whose complicated businesses dealings and small armies of accountants and tax attorneys require lots of IRS resources if they’re to be audited. Over the past decade, Republican lawmakers cut th...

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