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220 House Democrats Vote for IRS Surveillance of Americans' Bank Accounts
Townhall ^ | 11/22/2021 | Spencer Brown

Posted on 11/22/2021 9:40:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Democrat members of the House of Representatives killed a Republican motion on Sunday aimed at protecting Americans from IRS surveillance of their private finances in the latest instance of Nancy Pelosi's caucus seeking to give government a larger and more intrusive role in Americans' lives. 

The motion to recommit, brought to the House floor by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), would have stripped funding Democrats included in President Biden's budget bill to increase IRS enforcement and also prohibited the creation of an IRS program to spy on Americans' bank accounts.

Speaking on the floor in support of his motion, Rep. Brady — who also serves as the ranking member on the House Ways and Means Committee — said that "there is more than just nonsense in" the Build Back Better budget. 

"My amendment is simple," Brady explained. "It stops Democrats from unleashing 80,000 new IRS agents on American taxpayers. More importantly, it blocks the House and the Senate from ever imposing a dangerous bank surveillance scheme targeting American families, farmers, and small businesses."

Ways and Means Ranking Member Kevin Brady torches the Build Back Better Act and urges support for his MTR to prohibit IRS surveillance of Americans' bank accounts. pic.twitter.com/u6xOWz2fi1— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) November 22, 2021

Brady's amendment is short and to the point:

The Secretary of the Treasury (including any delegate of the Secretary) may not require any financial institution to report the inflows or out-flows (or any similar amount, whether on a transaction or aggregate basis) of any account maintained by such institution, except to the extent that such reporting is required under any program, 10 or other provision of law, as in effect on October 1, 2021.

"The truth is the IRS doesn't need your private information, it has a record of targeting Americans based on their political beliefs," noted Brady. "In fact this year they discriminated again against a non-profit focused on biblical teachings and continues to fail to stop massive leaks of private taxpayer returns to the media."

"Our Democrat colleagues claim that bank surveillance is not in there — yet," Brady warned before saying "the Biden White House is still insisting" on the program aimed at surveilling Americans' everyday bank transactions.

Democrats ultimately defeated Rep. Brady's motion with 220 Democrat members voting against protecting Americans' private banking information.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bankaccounts; banking; banks; buildbackbetter; california; deepstate; irs; kevinbrady; nancypelosi; policestate; privacy; sauleomarova; spying; surveillance; texas
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1 posted on 11/22/2021 9:40:41 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Did they exempt themselves?...................


2 posted on 11/22/2021 9:41:18 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

The DemoNaziCommie party machine is extremely dangerous.


3 posted on 11/22/2021 9:41:53 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

Communists have to be communists.


4 posted on 11/22/2021 9:42:42 AM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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5 posted on 11/22/2021 9:42:43 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, now we know they’re full blown commies….


6 posted on 11/22/2021 9:43:26 AM PST by mikelets456
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Testing my anger in 3...2...1...


7 posted on 11/22/2021 9:45:58 AM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJB/LGB community.)
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8 posted on 11/22/2021 9:46:41 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess that ole 4th Amendment doesn’t mean shit to these people.

Maybe the 2nd Amendment will.

It’s time.

FJB!


9 posted on 11/22/2021 9:47:48 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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Take heed POS pelousy: “He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.”

We are coming for YOU.


10 posted on 11/22/2021 9:53:59 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: unixfox

Take heed POS pelousy: “He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.”

We are coming for YOU.


11 posted on 11/22/2021 9:53:59 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: SeekAndFind

Fourth Amendment....The Courts will kill this.


12 posted on 11/22/2021 9:58:39 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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Will be interesting, to say the least, seeing how the Senate handles this.


13 posted on 11/22/2021 9:59:39 AM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: SeekAndFind

WELCOME TO 1984

Stalin raps box


14 posted on 11/22/2021 10:00:36 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Saule Omarova is finally proud of the US.


15 posted on 11/22/2021 10:05:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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220 Stazi voted to peruse your financial records anytime they want to.

Do you feeeel more secure now?

No, I din’t t’ink so, childrun.

Many have escaped regimes only to now see another regime here stomp on their rights just as cruelly as Stalin and Hitler.


16 posted on 11/22/2021 10:07:52 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!! In CONgre$$ WE're Disgusted!! Joe McCarthy was right.)
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Doe it include the over seas accounts of the Congress Critters?? LOL, YEAH SURE.


17 posted on 11/22/2021 10:08:20 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There’s probably funding for concentration camps buried somewhere in “Build Back Better”.


18 posted on 11/22/2021 10:08:44 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Sacajaweau

lol Just like all the other things the court will kill.


19 posted on 11/22/2021 10:09:07 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules
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To: SeekAndFind

Flat out enemies of the American populace...


20 posted on 11/22/2021 10:10:19 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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