Posted on 08/22/2022 9:08:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — It has been called President Joe Biden’s “shadow army,” described as a strike force to shake down small businesses with assault rifles and likened to a militia of auditors on search-and-destroy missions.
Decades of Republican antipathy toward the Internal Revenue Service have reached new levels of enmity with the passage of a Democratic-backed bill that gives the agency $80 billion to beef up its ability to go after tax cheats.
But Republicans, who have long accused the IRS of unfairly targeting conservatives, have seized on the law to fan unfounded conspiracy theories about the threat that mom-and-pop shops and middle-class Americans will face from an emboldened tax collector.
The scale and speed at which rumors about the agency have spread portend the political and logistical challenges that the Biden administration will confront as it embarks on the biggest overhaul of the IRS since its inception.
From Twitter and TikTok to newsletters and cable news, Republicans have embraced the notion that a bigger IRS is poised to be weaponized against them, often distorting facts to make their points.
The Biden administration has been trying to debunk disinformation and tamp down fears. It insists that the revamped IRS will be focused on better customer service and that honest taxpayers will have less to fear because audits will be better targeted at those who are evading taxes.
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So very sad when all we really need is a “national” sales tax and eliminate the “income” tax. That way everybody pays based on their wealth!
If NY Times ever feels the need to address a political situation as a “conspiracy theory” - its confirmation you can treat it as FACT.
“Republican antipathy toward the Internal Revenue Service”
Only Republicans have antipathy towards the IRS?
Sickening aholes!
But Republicans, ...have seized on the law to fan unfounded conspiracy theories about the threat that mom-and-pop shops and middle-class Americans will face from an emboldened tax collector.
It’s not like the IRS has ever targeted conservative groups or anything...../s
$80 billion to the IRS
$66 billion for the entire Russian military
Think about that
Didn’t Obama talk about a “civilian army that was as well staffed and funded as the military”? I can’t find clips, scrubbed?
But Republicans, who have long accused the IRS of unfairly targeting conservatives...
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Becuase it was proven in court the IRS *did* target conservatives.
VIDEO: I.R.S. Training Video Shows Armed Arrest of Small Business Owner
https://rumble.com/v1gosdn-i.r.s.-training-video-shows-armed-arrest-of-small-business-owner.html
They just bought a ton of ammo and had adds about deadly force.
So what part of “Armed Federal Agents” using “dealdy force” makes all you rubes think of an “Army”?
Come on, man!
They’re from the Goobermint and here to help you.
Gregg Phillips said the other day that even after Catherine Engelbrecht beat the IRS in court - they stiffed her.
Turnabout is fair play, I say.
debunked
misinformation
disinformation
CONSPIRACY THEORY!
no dissent
resistance is futile
you wouldnt want to get canceled, would you?
They’re not conspiracy theories anymore.
They’re spoilers.
That word, "unfounded" - I do not think it means what you think it means. That 87,000 is roughly the manning of 6 infantry divisions and it isn't an army? It's a doubling of the size of the IRS specifically for enforcement and inasmuch as the IRS's use by the Democrats as a political weapon is anything but "unfounded", yeah, there's a little concern here.
In fact, it's the acquisition of an attack dog paid for by its victims. In China they make the families of the executed pay for the ammunition. Same concept.
The NYT is just a joke at this point. They just ignore the 87,000 armed IRS goons that are part of this.
Lot’s a folks here think that is a tax on the poor...basically
So when Alan Rappeport and Tiffany Hsu get audited by one of the 87K new agents, do they show this article as their “get out of jail free” card?
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