Posted on 04/26/2025 8:56:31 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Maybe Trump can issue 100 round boxes of ammo with refunds.
Confiscate their weapons and ammo and sell it off to the public. The same goes for several other federal agencies that are not law enforcement agencies.
See 20. There is a veterans preference for IRS hiring, but it extends to all positions, not just special agents, who are recruited from within. IIRC.
Just think how many of our tax dollars are spent training and arming these IRS agents who do absolutely nothing for the benefit of American people and are only preparing to do us harm. DOGE, please recommend eliminating the entire program.
A national retail sales tax insted of the sadistic income tax would obviate the need for most of the IRS (and its army).
"Why should the Internal Revenue Service have enough trained manpower, guns, and ammo to equip nine or ten infantry battalions [emphasis added]?"
Regarding the armed IRS, ask Congress since the Constitution authorizes only Congress to arm an army.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia [emphasis added], and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"And speaking of Congress, the states need to disarm the constitutionally undefined IRS by putting a stop to the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress's ongoing abuse of the 16th Amendment (direct taxes) by repealing those amendments.
The 16th Amendment especially is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime imo, that amendment also weakening our 4th Amendment protections imo.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
"16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
"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.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
If you actually think that, “....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)......” That 15 fully automatic submachine guns (along with a bunch of semi-automatic rifles) is what would be within a small army, I really don't know what kind of army you have been looking at.
My friend use to carry an M-1911 A1 when he went out into the field. Some of the scariest field visits he relayed were to “cash” junk yards to investigate their books as a field audit. He also told me stories of getting to train with a Thompson submachine gun, but that it was usually in a safe at the field office.
Do I think that the IRS has provided firearms to its employees as a “perk?” Yes, I think that far more probably have given firearms than is needed. Do I think that depending upon assignments that some IRS agents should be armed? Yes. Do I think that any IRS field agent that might need a firearm should be trained to a high level of proficiency? Absolutely.
Should the IRS be required to explain it ammo purchases? Yes. Should there be greater oversight on which IRS agents should be authorized to carry weapons and the types of weapons? Absolutely. Do I think that the IRS field agents should all be stripped of weapons? No.
Do I think that this article posted is probably not well thought out and fear mongering? Yes. Even game wardens are armed these days, to say nothing of all the CCL licenses.
How many elected members of Congress owe back taxes?
I think it is to protect their own power. They don't think that they work for the citizens.
The two-tiered system is not just in the judiciary. The IRS does not seem interested in Hunter Biden (or how Joe Biden, Nazi Pelosi or Chuck Schumer got so rich). But look at how they went after Trump and his family...for what?
because they know one day, the masses are going to say no...
terminating the bureau will take care of this danger
So, is the IRS getting notified of all transactions over $600?
I am still fighting a mystery $6500 bill the IRS sent me in 2020. They can’t, or won’t, say why it is owed but if I didn’t pay I would be arrested. So I paid and now have to fight it. Maybe I will get it back but doubtful. Meanwhile, it looks as if the whole damned corrupt IRS “rank and file” don’t need to pay their taxes. Scumbags, the lot of them.
Employees of the Internal Revenue Service owe about $50 million in back taxes.
Well that explains a lot about the guns.
IRS weapons training...
An IRS agent who was allegedly shot dead by his coworker following a training session called his accused shooter ‘an effing idiot’ in his final words.
A jury found a federal agent not guilty on Wednesday in the 2023 shooting death of a fellow agent after a training exercise in Phoenix.
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/02/19/irs-agent-found-not-guilty-shooting-death-fellow-agent-phoenix/
Do Jesse and Al still owe back taxes?
As for TVA, I understand that. I have been involved in the nuclear power industry for many, many decades. The last time I visited a major power reactor, I was surprised by the entry into the facility prior to my inspection. There was a fenced zig-zag “kill zone” prior to getting inside the buildings between guard towers. Inside the spent fuel building there was netting on the ceilings to prevent grenades from being thrown. There were shooting stations in some of the interior hallways. The someone took the potential threat of a terrorist attack, extremely seriously.
Yes, agencies have been weaponized, but most of the weapon of choice is lawsuits and not approving valid requests. I think far too many firearms are being handed out to federal employees as perks and not based on need.
Hear, Hear!!
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