IRS firepower: Actions speak louder than words

American Thinker ^ | 26 Apr, 2025 | Jim Davis

[MtnClimber]

Why should the Internal Revenue Service have enough trained manpower, guns, and ammo to equip nine or ten infantry battalions?

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has revealed that employees of the Internal Revenue Service owe about $50 million in back taxes. The problem extends far beyond the IRS: In Fiscal Year 2021, the IRS found that 149,000 federal employees owed about $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes.

Let’s bear that in mind while looking at the amount of firepower the IRS can deploy. In 2020, they had 2,100 “special agents,” who carry firearms and are fully trained to use them. These are law enforcement officers against tax evaders.

They inventoried nearly 4,500 firearms, including 15 “submachine guns” (probably M-16 or M-4 automatic rifles) and 539 long-barreled guns (presumably AR-15s and a few semi-auto shotguns). They also had 5 million rounds of ammo, which should be more than enough.

Starting in January 2021, the POC/LGBTQ committee that was operating Joe Biden like a Muppet started accumulating a much larger arsenal for the IRS. The budget line for more guns and ammo totaled over $10 million over the next three years.

Then the Muppeteers asked for an expansion of the IRS by 85,000 employees. Certainly that number included several thousand special agents.

Let me help with the math on this: They wanted enough trained manpower, guns, and ammo to equip nine or ten infantry battalions. If they added some artillery, that’s an entire division.

Remember, we’re talking about an agency whose weapons of choice should be calculators and Excel spreadsheets. There are only a few dozen law enforcement agencies in the world with that kind of firepower that are not Chinese, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, and U.S. Marshals.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: backtaxes; irs

[MtnClimber]

That ammo is intended to be used against us.

[BipolarBob]

The War on Drugs was a war on the people and their rights and any drug dealers caught/sentenced were just collateral damage. Civil Asset Forfeiture makes criminals out of citizens paying cash for cars/other purchases. Qualified Immunity gives police the protection to violate your rights as well. The IRS will monitor every purchase they can and they are quite good at that. So, no hoarding toilet tissue or survival supplies when the order is given.

[BenLurkin]

539 long guns for ten infantry battalions?

Seems inadequate?

[Frank Drebin]

Or perhaps they knew that eventually the people would find out about their, and the rest of DC's decades long grift, and come knocking for answers.

It won't be enough to save them in the end. If the American people ever decide to do their own version of an "audit"...

"Not a scorched stone of their fine house'd be standin'."

[Antihero101607]

539 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴?

𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦?

The IRS should not have any of that. Same with the Dept of Education, I remember over a decade ago it came out that they had their own S.W.A.T teams.

[dljordan]

“These are law enforcement officers against tax evaders.”

When’s the last time you heard of them raiding Wall Street?

[dljordan]

“Starting in January 2021, the POC/LGBTQ committee that was operating Joe Biden like a Muppet started accumulating a much larger arsenal for the IRS. The budget line for more guns and ammo totaled over $10 million over the next three years.”

Read.

[ryderann]

Wasn’t this begun as an Obama deal, then continued when Biden was in office? I always figured that these arms would be distributed to the military-aged illegals who were flooding our country. Why were they given cell phones? Was it to direct them to the weapon caches and tell them their particular area of operation. How many of the trained IRS agents are ex-military?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Didn’t Trump just order them all disarmed?

[Aria]

Good question!!!

[stars & stripes forever]

Transfer the weapons to the military.

Make the federal employees pay up.

Give We the People a tax holiday.

[Chickensoup]

yes, but did they??

[coloradan]

What does the Dept. of Ed need SWAT teams for? They don’t use them to respond to school shootings, they don’t use them when special ed kids beat the crap out of teachers, and they don’t use them when trans “girls” rape actual girls in women’s rest rooms. So what are they actually for?

[TalBlack]

Once they had this army in existence they could use it against anyone they chose. Simple.

[coloradan]

They also aren’t used to stop conventional bullying either.

[asinclair]

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has revealed that employees of the Internal Revenue Service owe about $50 million in back taxes.

And that's the evasion Ernst knows about. Who knows how much grift is flying under the radar? After all, the goal is not paying taxes, and the means is -- usually -- to hide the untaxed income by all means possible.

And thinking of that, how may of our Congresscritters are guilty of underpaying their taxes, given the kickbacks that have been exposed by DOGE?

[T-Bird45]

The author apparently is not very knowledgeable of firearm definitions. A “submachine gun” is an automatic in a pistol caliber. The M4 is a rifle caliber but reduced in size from its predecessor, the M16. Thus, it is properly called a carbine.

[antidemoncrat]

“Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) has revealed that employees of the Internal Revenue Service owe about $50 million in back taxes.”

This has become a government whose laws and policies are for the non-government people and government employees are exempt from them.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

They do need some because you do have some really a-hole dangerous groups out there, but this seems a lot more than needed.

I suspect that President O had the IRS warehousing these armaments until he managed to raise his Federal Police force to replace local police at which time he would transfer the arms to control of that Federal Police force.