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?
now lets take a look at those charitable contributions
mmmm....seems a bit too conservative
Reminds me of the Aztec tax collectors. If they liked the farmer’s daughter, they took her also.
for those who have not been through an irs audit
the phrase “the process is the punishment” is very appropriate
even for “no change” audits, it is very stressful and time consuming for the taxpayer
“Isn’t this like Bill Clinton’s 100,000 new cops?”
No. They had no centralized authority, all individual local departments.
Our local sheriff did not participate because he said the money would not last long enough to hire new people.
You know once they start arming IRS “agents” that Americans are in heap big trouble.
Here’s a simple questions;
Where are they going to find, let alone, hire 87,000 new employees?
What wiil be the minimum requirements for education and experience?
If the plandemic taught us 1 thing, employees dont want to work in cubicles.
As bad as this is, I just don’t see them filling these jobs any time soon.
they will be putting recruiting posters up at antifa and blm hq
if they cant pass, they will just lower the bar
You can bet these new IRS Special Agents are going to concentrate on Conservative Leaders, supporters and donors. This is going to be a legal process to throttle all Conservatives legally who the Dems consider a threat.
how many of these new agents will be working on fighting “disinformation”?
I think you are deluded.
Democrats in big cities do not crack down on gangs, sex traffickers, drug dealers or prostitutes. What makes you think they will go after them using the IRS?
Lois Lerner paved the way....
Vote GOP, social media posts against our government. YOU WILL AUDITED. This is Xiden’s Government.
I just had to give ebay my SS # because I'm over $600 which means W9/1099. I think this IRS thing has to do with CBDC and the end of cash. Sell $620 worth of stuff at a yard sale via CBDC and here cometh the tax man.
It's what commies do. Nickel and dime the little people to death in an effort to build their utopia. We all know how well that turns out every time they've tried.
...better watch your six people...it's about to get REAL nasty(if you're a conservative/MAGA supporter).
Are the Democrats turning the IRS into a domestic military?
Why did the IRS buy 5,000,000 rounds of ammo?
Jun 25, 2022
In just the last few months, the Internal Revenue Service has bought almost 5,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition — spending almost $700,000 in the process. The obvious question is why would a bunch of bean counters who spend their days staring at computer screens need to stock up on millions of rounds of ammo?
https://www.newyorkstatefirearmsassociation.org/why-did-the-irs-buy-5000000-rounds-of-ammo/
Maybe this setup with the IRS is like the Nazis in Hungary in WWII. The Nazis would locate anyone with property who were Jewish or political ideals the Nazis did not like and confiscate it. George Soros would be standing by to buy the property from the Nazis for pennies on the dollar, then market it to wealthy buyers.
“You know once they start arming IRS “agents” that Americans are in heap big trouble.”
When an IRS agent comes to your house, yes, they are armed. Have been for quite awhile.
About twenty years ago, an IRS agent came to a friend’s home in Houston, one of those “angry black wimmen” previously mentioned; while searching for her stuff, she pulled out a revolver and placed it on his coffee table.
If only that were true. Because that would single handedly solve the illegal alien problem.
Since they probably know who many of those small businesses support, the agents will have voting and donation records on file to target the small businesses that vote for the other party.
The average person is getting robbed by landlords, priced out of food and gas, and now will be finished off and on the streets living in a tent if they are lucky. Particularly if you voted the “wrong way”.
I harbor no illusions that this IRS stunt is to wipe out any opposition.
The RATS *like* gangs, sex traffickers, drug dealers and prostitutes?
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