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Earlier this year, the House of Representatives voted 221-210 to repeal funding for 87,000 IRS agents. “Promises made,” Speaker McCarthy said as he dropped the gavel. ... The so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ gave $79.6 billion to the IRS over the next 10 years. The Wall Street Journal said the new army of IRS agents will target the middle and upper-middle class. ... IRS audits the poor at 5 times the rate of everyone else. The IRS also has a history of targeting conservative groups. Three hearings have been held in recent months, two with Commissioner Werfel and one with Secretary...

As the Biden administration continues its attempts to consolidate power within the federal government and among its leftist allies, there's a familiar face being tapped to lead Biden's effort to surge power, resources, and agents to the IRS — and she has quite the track record of working to target conservative groups and organizations. One of Lois Lerner's lackeys from the Obama-era IRS scandal — one that saw the agency target conservative and tea party affiliated groups as a political arm of the Obama-Biden administration — will be leading the Biden administration's expansion of the IRS and stated goal of...

Tax collectors and federal cops have always been rotten to the core. There's no doubt that both the FBI and IRS are having a tough moment with the public. Perceptions that the national police agency is at war with half of the population have eroded its standing, while Biden administration plans to super-size the tax-collection agency further sour public perceptions of that never-popular arm of government. It might all be very depressing if you work in the public sector, or you could say that Americans are finally gaining a more realistic assessment of deeply flawed federal enforcers. Over the past...