IRS gunning for taxpayers
Debt ceiling deal only cut agency a bit
Joe Biden will soon have a bigger army than the U.S had when it invaded Normandy in World War II.
That invasion, which led to victory over Nazi Germany, took place on June 6, 1944 — the longest day — and will be commemorated Tuesday.
Excluding the UK and Canada, the U.S. had some 71,000 troops in that invasion, 54,000 who stormed the beaches at Omaha and Utah, along with 13,000 paratroopers and 4,000 glider infantrymen who landed inland.
Joe Biden’s army in his war against the American taxpayer is made up of 85,260 new IRS agents — down from 87,000 — which not only doubles the existing size of the agency but will cost the taxpayers billions to pay for the expansion.
It is too bad Biden will not send IRS agents to the southern border to protect the American people from the millions of illegal immigrants who have invaded the country. Instead, they will go after Americans.
Biden administration maintains that the new agents will only go after tax dodging corporations and billionaires who are not paying their “fair share” of the tax burden.
Also, supporters say, most new hires will be information technicians, taxpayer service staff and auditors who will crack down on corporations and high-income tax evaders, Hunter Biden excluded.
The Republicans maintain that the new hires will be used to go after small business owners, the middle class, and workers who earn their living through cash payments, like waitresses, bartenders or food service personnel.
It is true that Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was able to contain or trim federal spending in the debt ceiling bill, including some cuts in the IRS budget.
It is also true that he could not have done it without the help of the Democrats. While the Republicans hold a slim majority in the House, more Democrats voted for the bill than did Republicans.
The vote in passing the bill, which was then fasttracked in the Senate, was 314 to 117. The bill got 165 Democrats voting for it compared to 149 Republicans.
Voting against the bill were extremist members from both the left, who wanted to spend more, and the right who wanted to spend less.
Even though passage of the bill was a major victory for the dogged 58-year-old Speaker, he came under fire from Republican conservatives for not cutting enough, especially in the IRS budget.
And when it came to the hiring of an army of new IRS agents, McCarthy had it both ways.
Early on he vowed that on his first day as Speaker “we’re going to repeal the 87,000 IRS agents.”
Keeping his vow, the House in January voted to repeal the proposal on a 221 to 210 vote.
“This was our very first act of the new Congress, because government should work for you, not against you. Promises made, promises kept,” he said.
The bill, which Biden was going to veto anyway, was sent to the Democratcontrolled Senate where it disappeared.
However, McCarthy was able to rework the proposal into the debt ceiling bill that the House passed in April that eventually forced President Biden to the negotiating table.
Up to that point, Biden had refused to negotiate.
It was during these negotiations, and the compromises that went along with them, that the proposal for hiring the new IRS agents was apparently restored with McCarthy’s acquiescence.
Rep. Andy Biggs of the House Freedom Caucus called the new IRS agents “the New Stasi,” which were the dreaded secret police of Communist East Germany.
The federal government has gotten along without thousands of new agents for years. Why does it suddenly need them now? To shake down billionaires?
Of the 750 or so billionaires in the country, you can rest assured that Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg among them are not worried. They just lawyer up.
It is you, me and the average working stiff who should worry. The Biden government has become an occupying army.