Posted on 08/08/2022 5:05:46 AM PDT by SJackson
Inflation is skyrocketing. Gas prices, despite Old Joe Biden’s crowing about minor reductions, are still substantially higher than they were before his presidency was inflicted upon us. America’s global standing is drastically diminished by Biden’s handlers’ catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, due to the lack of preparedness of a politicized military distracted by wokeism. The Southern border is essentially nonexistent, and due to that as well as to the arrival of tens of thousands of unvetted Afghan migrants, there is an unknowable number of criminals and terrorists in the country who would have been kept out by remotely sane immigration policies. Amid all this and much more, Biden’s handlers are tackling the real problem facing America today: they’re expanding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the extent that, according to the Washington Free Beacon, it will soon be larger “than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined.”
Yes, it’s true. The people who run Joe Biden looked around at their dumpster fire of an administration, and the smoking ruin they have wrought, and decided that what America really needs are tens of thousands of new employees for the IRS.
The Free Beacon reported that “under the Inflation Reduction Act negotiated by Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.), the agency would receive $80 billion in funding to hire as many as 87,000 additional employees. The increase would more than double the size of the IRS workforce, which currently has 78,661 full-time staffers, according to federal data.” The new money that the agency would receive “would increase the agency’s budget by more than 600 percent. In 2021, the IRS received $12.6 billion.”
Why does the IRS need so many new full-time employees? Why does it need a six-hundred-percent budget increase? It’s all part of the administration’s ongoing efforts to squeeze the American middle class. The Free Beacon notes that according to “a Congressional Budget Office analysis,” the new behemoth IRS “would result in more than $200 billion in additional revenue for the federal government over the next decade.” This is because the new IRS agents would devote substantial energy to squeezing Americans and bleeding them dry: “Democrats say the hiring of additional IRS agents will help root out tax cheats and other criminals,” for “more than half of that funding is specifically earmarked for ‘enforcement,’ meaning tax audits and other responsibilities such as ‘digital asset monitoring.’”
It’s easy to see where all this is going. The new super-IRS will be as corrupt and politicized as the FBI already is, and would use its new staff and money to go after dissenters from the Leftist regime in Washington. The IRS is already one of the most hated and feared of all federal agencies, and one that was already politicized during Barack Obama’s first two terms, when the infamous Lois Lerner began persecuting conservative nonprofit organizations.
Back in the heady days of April 2017, then-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady and then-Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam asked the Justice Department to reopen a probe into Lerner’s conduct. They wrote: “On April 9, 2014, the House Committee on Ways and Means voted to send a letter to the Department of Justice referring former IRS Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois G. Lerner for criminal prosecution. As indicated in the attached letter, the Committee’s nearly three-year investigation uncovered evidence of willful misconduct on the part of Ms. Lerner. Despite this fact, and for what many believe were purely partisan reasons, the prior Administration refused to review Ms. Lerner’s misconduct.”
Indeed. And that misconduct had to do with the politicization of the IRS: “In particular,” Brady and Roskam continued, “the Committee found that Ms. Lerner used her position to improperly influence IRS action against conservative organizations, denying these groups due process and protection rights under the law. The Committee also found she impeded official investigations by providing misleading statements in response to questions from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Finally, Lerner risked exposing, and may have actually disclosed, confidential taxpayer information, in apparent violation of Internal Revenue Code section 6103 by using her personal email to conduct official business.”
Nothing was done, of course, and now Lois Lerner’s friends and colleagues are back in power. They’re poised now with their new funding to make her look like an impartial, absolutely honest, trustworthy public official. It’s clear that Biden’s handlers, having already turned the Justice Department into a tool of his agenda, now wants to corrupt the IRS in a similar way, and turn it against those who dare to resist the implementation of his socialist, green agenda. Is there anyone among our elected officials in Washington who has the will to stop them in their ongoing efforts to corrupt the American system to its very core?
The reconciliation package would also double the current IRS workforce by hiring an additional 87,000 employees to the bureau’s staff of 78,661 employees, a move that would make the IRS larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI and Border Patrol.
This is Obama’s Civilian National Security Force becoming reality.
Now you know why the IRS, and every other government department needs enough bullets to kill every American several times over.
They are going to be coming hard for small business types. Think about the tradesmen and people that do some of their work for cash.
We’ll need a hell of a log of “doxologists” so that we can know where they live. And then we wait.
Shen you deploy 87K useless bureaucrat hammers, everyone to the right of Mao looks like a nail.
Doubling the size of a Federal agency is a bit ambitious. Are there really 87,000 people that 1) want to work for the IRS and 2) can pass the training to be an IRS agent. I understand it’s a long, math heavy, difficult academy including time at FLETC.
I think the appeal will be to those true believers in big leftist government, and they will be glad to investigate grandma and grandpa because they think a few more tax dollars will save the mother earth....
The ranks will fill.
And since a huge percentage of government employees are angry black wimmin, watch out sucka. Now they got guns.
The underground economy has been there for a long time. It is huge. Politicians have been afraid to admit it exists let alone do anything about it. What we are about to experience is the result of our government continually kicking that can down the road and it ain’t gonna be pretty, folks.
Time for Americans to pay the fiddler. The freakin’ dempanic party is over. Eighty seven thousand RAT voters with the right to legally mug Americans and take your money away from your family. When the taxman is armed and you’re not, you know your ass is out there hangin’ in the breeze. The world almost came to an end a few years back when Arizona tried to arm its welfare fraud investigators. Now the RATS are doing it on the Federal level.
Isn’t this like Bill Clinton’s 100,000 new cops?
And if a few of their own get caught in a crossfire, then so be it. They made their bed. Eff em.
The RATS destroy the police force created to go after criminals in order to increase the number of “mass shootings” in America just in time for the midterms and create a police force to go after law abiding Americans to make sure American families are broke. Yup. We’ve become a Nazi state.
I agree. According to the DNC “media” toads, the people living here are eating this communist agenda up. I’ve come to the conclusion that sitting around all day staring at a cellphone rapidly destroys brains cells and turns people into drooling democrat idiots.
Doubtful this is ever going to happen. They couldn’t even get 18,000 new IRS employees previously.
Math to operate a firearm? Only need that if you are an IRS snipper.
Think affirmative action and math as being racist. The hiring standards and training requirements will be lessened.
All the retired police officers can get jobs at the IRS. And get to carry again.
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