Together, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz received a 100% score from the IRS union in two-thirds of the years they were in Congress.
A database shows that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz received a 100 percent voting scorecard from the Internal Revenue Service’s labor union in a majority of years during their careers in Congress.
The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) is the public-sector union of IRS employees. NTEU’s political action committee gives more than 97 percent of its political donations to Democrats and has been criticized for spending millions of taxpayer dollars on union activities when they should be working on behalf of taxpayers.
The database, produced by voter information service Vote Smart, lists the IRS union’s ratings of then-Senator Kamala Harris’s (D-Calif.) voting record as a 100% score in 2017 and an 86% score in 2018, for an average of 93%.
The IRS union also gave then-Congressman Tim Walz (D-Minn.) a score of 100% in five out of the seven years where data was available, according to the database. His voting record received an 87% score on average from the union during his congressional career.
Together, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz received a 100% score from the IRS union in two-thirds of the years they were in Congress.
Although internet archives show that these congressional scorecards also used to exist on NTEU.org, the webpage appears to have since been removed from public view.
It’s no surprise that Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the union bosses at the IRS would align on the issues. Harris cosponsored the “PRO Act,” congressional Democrats’ radical plan to push workers nationwide under the thumb of union bosses, and she continues to serve as an advocate for the bill. The PRO Act would also supercharge the IRS’s ability to go after middle-class Americans by forcing independent contractors into more restrictive and higher-tax employment statuses.
Harris has endorsed $5 trillion in tax hikes, including new energy taxes, new taxes on both realized and unrealized capital gains, increased Medicare taxes, new death taxes, and a corporate tax rate higher than China’s. The Harris budget plan would also flood the IRS with $104.3 billion in new funding from taxpayers.
Walz, for his part, signed a multitude of tax increases into law as Governor of Minnesota, supported massive tax increases in Congress to back regulatory overhauls on energy and healthcare, and is a favorite of Big Labor union bosses in the public and private sectors alike.
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