So, Admit It, You Want 87,000 More IRS Agents

[Wudidiz]

According to Ted Cruz, IRS will be bigger than the Pentagon, plus the Department of State, plus the FBI, plus the Border Patrol combined.

Cruz Rips Democrat Inflation Reduction Act -- 'A Massive Power Grab'

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Yes, similar to communist countries.

 

[Axxe55]

This is just the continuation of weaponizing federal agencies. I am afraid this is a tactic that Biden and the demtards. learned from the Obama administration. Remember Obama was actually caught doing so. I am sure this has been going on for years.

The weaponization of the IRS started under Obama.

 

[oldag]

87k more living on the taxpayer dole.

 

[Wudidiz]

The weaponization of the IRS started under Obama.

Sounds like a plan: disarm the public and expand arming the government.

 

[Axxe55]

Sounds like a plan: disarm the public and expand arming the government.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if that was their plan.

 

[Bozz10mm]

Who audits the auditors?

 

[Axxe55]

Who audits the auditors?

Biden?

 

[gdr_11]

Remember folks, the IRS has enforcement and search powers that no other federal agency possesses. They are the perfect Secret Police

 

[Darkpriest667]

I wonder what the starting pay for an IRS agent is

 

[Wudidiz]

I wonder what the starting pay for an IRS agent is

Not long ago it was around $40k

 

[Rhino]

"For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged."

Seems to me we need to clean our own houses, and work on reducing princes...

 

[Sam Colt]

Let me check my SURPRISE-O-METER.
Nope, not so much as a quiver of the needle.

That’s because you have it set on pico-shits. Flip the dial to femto-shits and it may flicker.

 

[benenglish]

$69.8 million just for their handguns (87000 times $800)
training costs

No. They're mostly hiring Revenue Agents. Revenue Agents do not carry a badge or gun. Special Agents are the ones with the guns.

 

[benenglish]

The weaponization of the IRS started under Obama.

No. Clinton.

The IRS was fully neutered after Nixon misused the agency. For a quarter of a century, the agency pretty much did it's job without stirring up too much shit.

Then Clinton came along and Al Gore rode herd on the whole "Reinventing Government" initiative. The IRS was an early casualty. It took years for them to get really twisted up but I now consider the agency a lost cause.

 

[benenglish]

Who audits the auditors?

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Go to their web site and read some of their reports. They're surprisingly easy to digest and point out all sorts of interesting stuff about the inner workings of the agency.

Some of it is funny, some sad, and too much is just plain scary.

 

[benenglish]

They are the perfect Secret Police

No. They're too incompetent, irregularly funded, and disorganized to be an effective secret police. Heck, they don't even keep any non-tax information on citizens. If they need such to conduct an investigation, they use contractors. They're not nor in any danger of becoming the Stasi, at least not for a couple of decades.

Remember folks, the IRS has enforcement and search powers that no other federal agency possesses.

Perhaps more than anything else, this should bother people. The IRS is almost unique in the way they approach civil law enforcement. The burden of proof is reversed from what we've come to expect; the law requires you to maintain records to prove yourself innocent rather than requiring the agency to prove you did something wrong.

That's... bothersome, to say the least.

 

[benenglish]

I wonder what the starting pay for an IRS agent is

It would be better to ask about signing bonuses. Prior to 2007, when the overheated finance sector was hiring every accountant in sight, the IRS couldn't get qualified people. They wound up offering ridiculous signing bonuses. If you were a CPA with three years experience in the energy sector, you could get a signing bonus of $50K and be onboarded 2 grades higher than normal. Before you knew where to find the employee toilet, you were officially a journeyman level Revenue Agent. That was ridiculous. Even more ridiculous, the bonus only required a 2 year commitment. Pretty much every single Revenue Agent who was hired that way was gone the pay period after they hit 24 months of service.

I sincerely doubt that anything like that will happen now but you never know, given the generalized labor shortage we're seeing in every sector of the economy.

 

[popper]

They are the perfect Secret Police
Defund local police and fund National Police. Use IRS special powers to control the masses.
Normal commie method, been around for eons. Even the Israelites and Romans used it.

 

[benenglish]

Not long ago it was around $40k

It depends on whether the person comes on as a Revenue Agent (a field auditor) or a Tax Compliance Officer (an in-office auditor). The bottom end salary can be as low as $31,083.

 

[wiredgeorge]

The goober-mint needs the agents to help support the poor illegals and jailbirds who are suffering from the plague!

https://americanactionnews.com/opinion/2022/08/05/biden-sent-as-much-as-5-2-billion-in-stimulus-checks-to-illegals-and-convicts-rs-mb/?wmg=1