Posted on 08/08/2022 4:08:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Schumer-Manchin tax bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the Senate on Sunday, raises taxes and will give the IRS billions to go into what the Wall Street Journal called “beast mode.”
In all, the meant-to-be-inflation buster bill will dole out about $80 billion to the IRS for increase enforcement, operational improvements, customer service, and systems modernization. Think big, really big. That $80 billion is more than six times the current annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion.
How can the IRS spend all of that? You guessed it, the bill says a whopping $45.6 billion will be for enforcement, and make no mistake, enforcement is the main directive from Democrats to the IRS. Get bigger, tougher and faster at collecting, and make them pay. Meanwhile, the IRS could be ramping up its police power too. The IRS is a key part of the government, but not one you usually associate with law enforcement and guns.
Only the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS can carry guns, but the IRS has been buying more guns and ammunition in recent years, snapping up nearly $700,000 in ammo in early 2022. The bullet buy prompted Representatives Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Jeff Duncan (R-SC) to introduce the “Disarm the IRS Act,” to prohibit the IRS from buying ammunition.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeted, "87,000 IRS agents will be hired with $80 billion taxpayer dollars when the Senate Reconciliation bill passes this weekend. And they're buying more guns & ammo too. Lower to middle income Americans & small businesses will be the primary targets of Democrat's new IRS force."
The IRS has a hard job to do, but worry about the IRS inventory of weapons is not new. An official report published by the Government Accountability
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
$919,000 per employee funding.
Are tax dollars used against us, this is criminal
Question. Will these weaponized agents of intimidation also be allowed to carry weapons?? They dwarf the CIA and FBI now.
All Trump supporters, conservatives, Christians, and those who don’t want your children molested by drag queens beware. That knock on the door will be ATF, FBI, or now, IRS. Tens of thousands of new obedient vicious enforcers are there for one reason. To destroy us. And the idiot GOP does nothing but stamp their footies. I am glad I am close to retirement. It’s about time to sell what little is left of my business (THANK’S for the lockdowns) and get the heck off the radar.
The IRS has special agents that do indeed carry weapons and there will be more.
“Lower to middle income Americans & small businesses will be the primary targets”
Correction - republicans and conservatives will be the primary target.
I remember the late Larry Burkett had a Christian financial ministry and his IRS audit came up. At first, he said he was real positive that this would be a testimony to the integrity of his ministry and it would even validate his ministry. He quickly found out it was out that the audit came down to trying to find every minuscule error and quickly consumed large amounts of his focus and he realized he was dealing with a powerful government agency exerting its power and it really wasn’t about ensuring correct tax payments.
To put it in perspective, that’s about one IRS agent in every 221 registered Republicans.
I’m confused about how it passed when Sanders was against it. The tie vote by Harris should not have been necessary.
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LOIS LERNERS … … to TARGET US!!
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Disband the IRS. They are not needed.
87,000 Lois Lerners to enforce ideology and punish political enemies
Shift your allegiance to the FAIRtax?
Support elected Representatives and Senators who support the FAIRtax!
FAIRtax replaces the Marxist inspired “progressive” income tax with a National Retail Sales Tax and ABOLISHES the IRS!
You can help us! Check out https://www.fairtax.org and https://www.bigsolution.org.
We will never be a FRee country as long as we have an income tax and an IRS!
And get rid of the 16th amendment like we got rid of prohibition!
You bet your bippy!
H.J.Res. 61: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the sixteenth article of amendment.
Rep Warren Davidson (R-OH8) is the Primary Sponsor
These are the cosponsors:
R Bishop, Dan [R-NC9] Original Cosponsor
R Babin, Brian [R-TX36] Original Cosponsor
R Cawthorn, Madison [R-NC11] Original Cosponsor
R Cloud, Michael [R-TX27] Original Cosponsor
R Hice, Jody [R-GA10] Original Cosponsor
R Jackson, Ronny [R-TX13] Original Cosponsor
R LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA1] Original Cosponsor
R Miller, Mary [R-IL15] Original Cosponsor
R Norman, Ralph [R-SC5] Original Cosponsor
R Gosar, Paul [R-AZ4] Nov 9, 2021
There is a pretty good article about it at https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hjres61
can they add the 19th to it?
Must be separate legislation.
Probably WILL NOT happen!
PS There has been legislation to repeal the 16th Amendment introduced in EVERY Congress since the 104th Congress (1995–1996)!
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