I doubt they’ve actually hired all 87,000 by now.
I don't know about that..................
Posted on 12/01/2022 12:12:01 PM PST by Red Badger
The freshly-militarized Internal Revenue Service will now predictably be used by the Left to target conservatives, and the process has already started.
After adding 87,000 new armed “agents” this past summer, the tax-collecting bureaucracy is poised to target political dissidents and small business owners who are seen to be enemies to the regime.
Now, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has demanded that tax exemptions be taken away from conservative groups who ignored masking orders and social distancing guidelines during the pandemic, the Daily Signal reported.
The news has broken amidst the recovery of a 176-page document containing correspondence between Whitehouse and the IRS.
According to Tom Jones, president and founder of the American Accountability Foundation, this constitutes a clear example of a politicized IRS being used as a political bludgeon.
“It’s abundantly clear that [Whitehouse] is trying to take the 87,000 new IRS agents and put them to work investigating me and my friends because he doesn’t like their politics,” he said earlier this week.
“It’s Lois Lerner on steroids,” Jones said of what’s in the Whitehouse correspondence, alluding to the Obama-era IRS targeting Tea Party groups with tax exempt status.
“The Lois Lerner stuff was a mid-level bureaucrat abusing [her] power to investigate conservative groups,” he said. “This is a U.S. senator basically trying to turn the heat up on investigations by the Internal Revenue Service.”
Jones noted, however, that the Lerner situation was light stuff compared to what lies ahead.
“So, if Sheldon Whitehouse had his way, Lois Lerner would just look like a test run of what Sheldon Whitehouse has in mind,” Jones said,
Among those targeted by Whitehouse include Turning Point USA.
The IRS bloating took place in the wake of the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” an attempt by the Left last summer to save Biden and the Democrats from midterm obliteration, while handing out prizes to their friends.
Nothing never happened after The Lois Lerner stuff, so why would they want to stop there?
I like the way that a senator “threatened” Musk and painted him as a “communist China” supporter.
The democrats are slime.
The Dems always accuse others of what they are actually doing.
Always...................
Okay, GOP majority congress. The ball is now in your court. You have the power to defund the 87K agents.
I think they should take away all charitable exemptions. Most charities are controlled by leftists who pay themselves huge salaries and us their charity’s money for political purposes. They really are profit making enterprises. The only real difference is that instead of paying the profits to the stockholders they pay them to the management. At a minimum there should be a limit on how much a charity can pay its management.
So in the view of Whitehouse, conservatives are a public health threat.
Bump
Yup.🤔
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I doubt they’ve actually hired all 87,000 by now.
Where does the IRS get its funding? I think it’s time for the wimp who wants to be speaker weighs in, no money for these traitors, irs gets no funding until this crap stops
I doubt they’ve actually hired all 87,000 by now.
I don't know about that..................
Unprintable.
“The democrats are slime.”
Pope is usually Catholic.
Bears crap in the woods.
Shakespeare is a dead poet.
Miami is a city in Florida
Captain Obvious always states the obvious.
The premise the IRS is hiring 87,000 ARMED agents is BS. Most of the new hires will be Office Tax Auditors, Revenue Agents and Revenue Officers. They may hire a few thousand ARMED Special Agents, but that’s it.
The democrats want to use the IRS to wring every last dollar out of American taxpayers, and that will be done by auditing middle income taxpayers. That’s what Tax Auditors and Revenue Agents do. Revenue Officers collect the taxes owed.
Special Agents are the Criminal Investigators and they only go after Criminal Tax Evasion.
I’m no fan of the IRS, but such unfounded accusations makes our side look stupid and uninformed.
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
Ms. Wolfe, it’s now time to shoot the bastards.
5.56mm
As Trump has said many time, they’re not really coming after Trump, THEY’RE COMING AFTER YOU!!!!
Who are the real Fascists again? Yeah, Democrats.
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