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.
Every one of those 220 have gone too far and, im gonna say it, need to be removed.
Why?
They are neither democrat nor republican.
They are communists.
How? I do not know. That’s your job.
I’m 69, disabled, and married to a dialysis machine.
I csnnot ‘do’ anything, except sit here and kvetch!!
THIS IS NOT THE AMERRICA I PUT MY LIFE ON THE LINE FOR!
THE ENEMY IS IN THE STINKING CONGRESS AND NEEDS TO BE REMOVED.
Translation:
220 Democrats vote to collapse the banking system and destroy the US Dollar.
Thats what happens when you trigger a run on the banks.
At the VERY LEAST, make every stock trade, investment, and transaction they make public - before they do it (like CEOs etc. having to disclose that they are selling their shares).
VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!
Vote them out !!!
The vice chair of the federal reserve announced today by Brandon. Thick as thieves. Not one reporter asked about her husband and conflicts of interest.
Not thiers though, the criminals are calling for the monitoring of the non criminals. we need a purge a good flush of the toilet is in order
87,000 more government employees incapable of building something real, but empowered to destroy peoples lives.
The IRS needs to be 100% abolished. No more politicization of taxes and ruining peoples lives. A sales tax on new purchases collected by the states is the solution. Everyone pays their fair share. No more business taxes. No more person income taxes. No more hidden taxes. No more tax accountants. No more tax lawyers. No more lobbyists working for loopholes. No more forms. No more filings. And a ton of unemployed government employees.
Stop calling them Democrats. They’re COMMUNISTS!!!!
OF COURSE...They all are banking with Maxine Waters’ husbands banks.
Why don’t they start with Hunter Biden and the “big guy?”
These new IRS agents will be the intimidation arm of the democrat party. The IRS has been politicized, with no repercussions.
As inflation gets going worse and worse my bank account will require a magnifying glass for the Feds to snoop on it.
I hope they don’t confirm her!!!
Pelosi is running them over a cliff. Thanks Plastic Face and BTW organized raiders are systematically looting every high end store in your home town.
Patriots need to support their state lawmakers in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
To permanently stop unconstitutional federal taxes, all the states need to effectively “secede” from the unconstitutionally big federal government by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments.
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