Posted on 05/02/2023 2:30:49 PM PDT by 4Liberty
Federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency have spent nearly $4 billion in taxpayer funds on guns, ammunition, and other "military-style equipment," a watchdog group found.
Since 2006, "76 rank-and-file agencies" outside "traditional law enforcement entities" or the Department of Defense spent $3.7 billion on "guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment," according to watchdog group Open the Books's summary of its report. These agencies include the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Small Business Administration, among others that historically have played little to no role in law enforcement activities.
Federal agencies have ramped up spending on weapons and ammunition under the Biden administration, according to data provided to the Washington Free Beacon. The IRS has seen its annual spending on these items nearly double since 2020, while the whole federal government has seen a 60 percent increase over the same period.
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Probably distributed with “License to Kill” permits that ordinary cops don’t have.
I’m sure they have been given professional training also (sarc)
Also driving the costs up for citizens.
That has been ongoing for years now. No one seems to understand the ramifications of this activity. Certainly none within the political ranks, as they have remained silent.
They are itching for a fight.
Load up on black tip steel ammo.
When the people fears the government, there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is freedom. Things are upside down. The solution is simple. Shutter all these weaponized agencies. Yes, even the IRS. Go to a federal consumption tax collected with state sales taxes and eliminate the entire tax code. Send every scumbag IRS employee to the unemployment line.
I’m not sure if this is the case for guns and ammo, but it is most certainly the case for armored vehicles and heavy military equipment. For a variety of reasons, see below, Congress wants the production lines running on various military items. Here’s why. Contracts to supporters, jobs, votes, keeping the cost low for the military. The way this works is, the military per item cost goes way down the more of each item is built. So gifts to foreign governments even though they are paid for by the same taxpayer, stops a taxpayer revolt when the taxpayer sees those same items in the military buy-list at a huge price. To see how much more each item might cost, consider the price of a sofa and loveseat. You can often buy a used car for the cost of said sofa and loveseat. That’s because the cars and their parts spread over many models are produced in their millions so there is economy of scale. But a particular sofa and loveseat may have a few hundred total copies made. Even though the car has millions of hours invested in design, it is produced by machines and a huge rate. Sofa and loveseat, probably by hand. The more of any item made the lower the cost. (Follow the money...and the bribes.)
We DO actually need some Common Sense gun control, but of a different type than is usually discussed.
Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The departments of take
Sounds like gov’t agencies are preparing for the revolutionary transition into Socialism.
So every federal agency can have a Gestapo element.
If I worked for a government agency I would want my own machine gun as well. No real need for it, but a new toy is always fun. Ammo paid for by uncle sam? Sounds good.
Indeed. They've been building their standing army for decades now. They won't be satisfied until we see roving death squads. The government puts no value whatsoever on our lives. I've pretty much come to the same conclusion regarding the government and their enforcers at all levels.
And we are told our munitions to fight war are dwindling.
Which war?
I remember reading once that the Department of Education has its own SWAT team.
Building Obuma’s army of 500-lb, affirmative action morons who can’t figure out which bathroom to use.
When you go to war, you want soldiers weighing one-quarter ton who can be rapidly delivered to the battlefield via front-end loaders and can find cover behind corn silos, beached whales and dirigibles.
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