New IRS Will Have 'More Soldiers Than the Israeli Army' Says Sen. Kennedy
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BY RICK MORAN AUG 14, 2022 10:27 AM ET


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The “surge” in IRS hiring is being compared to a military buildup by Republicans in Congress. The Inflation Reduction Act (sic) provides for an increase in IRS agents of 87,000 over a ten-year period, and a Republican study found that the additional agents will mean 710,000 more audits for taxpayers making $75,000 or less.

Related: Calling B.S. on White House Claims of No Increase in Audits for Middle Class

Perhaps it’s appropriate to describe the “new IRS” in military terms.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Biden’s new “army” will be larger than the president’s hometown.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz thinks we have to “Stop Biden’s Shadow Army!”

And Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said on Fox News that Biden’s new IRS will have “more agents, or soldiers, than the entire Israeli army.”

A truly colorful metaphor but, alas, it’s not true. As the Jerusalem Post reports, “According to a 2021 assessment by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the IDF has approximately 169,500 active personnel.”

Sorry, John, but it was worth a giggle.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

4 Facts About IRS Gun Arsenal
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Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / August 12, 2022

With congressional Democrats voting to add 87,000 agents at the Internal Revenue Service, here are some surprising facts about the IRS gun arsenal.

Some of the 87,000 new agents whom Democrats propose to hire at the Internal Revenue Service could come with some extra firepower. 

On Friday, House Democrats gave final passage to the tax and spending bill they dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, which, among other things, would double the size of the IRS with 87,000 new agents to beef up enforcement. 

As of two years ago, the IRS had an arsenal of 4,600 guns, reported OpenTheBooks, a government watchdog group. 

Two federal investigations in the past decade found that IRS agents had not been sufficiently trained and were accident-prone with the weapons they have. Armed IRS raids on nonviolent taxpayers surfaced as a concern almost 25 years ago during a Senate hearing. 

Democrats’ bill, which the Senate passed Sunday, awaits the signature of President Joe Biden should it clear the House as early as Friday.

The legislation, which unwinds from 2023 through 2031, would devote $80 billion to expanding the IRS and boosting tax revenue to pay for Democrats’ green energy subsidies and other  pet projects. 

Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative group that opposes the legislation, assembled information about the IRS arsenal from government and media reports. 

During the House floor debate Friday, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., raised concerns about arming IRS agents. 

“This bill has new IRS agents and they are armed, and the job description tells them that they need to be required to carry a firearm and expect to use deadly force if necessary,” Boebert said. “Excessive taxation is theft. You are using the power of the federal government for armed robbery on the taxpayers.”  

Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., suggested that no IRS agents are armed. 

“The idea that they are armed—I know that Ms. Boebert would like everybody to be armed, but that’s not what IRS agents do,” Yarmuth said. “I would implore my Republican colleagues to cut out the scare tactics. Quit making things up.”

In a posted job opening for a special agent, the IRS specified that applicants should be “willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments,” and able to carry “a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”

After sparking some controversy amid the proposed expansion of the agency, the IRS deleted “willing to use deadly force” from the job description.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Outrageous! Person chosen to lead 87,000 new IRS agents will make your blood boil
'We will be moving quickly with our work'
Art Moore By Art Moore
Published August 28, 2022 at 12:44pm
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The IRS official chosen to lead the new "centralized office" featuring the nearly 87,000 new employees funded in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act was involved in the agency's targeting of conservative groups that opposed Barack Obama's reelection in 2012.

IRS official Nikole Flax

Nikole Flax served as the chief of staff for then acting IRS Commissioner Stephen Miller, who was fired amid a cover-up of the scandal. When Republican lawmakers sought communications related to the scandal in an investigation, Flax's emails were among those the agency claimed were lost in a computer hard-drive crash. The IRS, the lawmakers charged, was attempting to "cover up the fact that it conveniently lost key documents in the investigation."

On Friday, as the Daily Signal reported, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said in an email to employees that the agency will establish a "new, centralized office" to implement elements of the bill, including the nearly 87,000 new IRS agents. The partisan bill, signed without a Republican vote, provides $80 billion to the IRS, mostly to pay for the new agents through 2031.

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In the email, Rettig said Flax, the deputy commissioner in charge of the Large Business & International Division, will lead the establishment of the centralized office.

"We have a unique, once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the IRS in a way to help taxpayers and fundamentally improve our tax administration work that is vital to the success of our country," Flax said in the memo from Rettig. "This is an exciting opportunity, and we will be moving quickly with our work."

In May 2014, the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration concluded in a report that the IRS delayed the processing of applications for tax-exempt status by certain conservative groups and sought private information that was later deemed unnecessary.

The Justice Department conducted a two-year investigation in October 2015 without bringing charges against Lois Lerner, the head of the Exempt Organizations division.
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The IRS claimed that the hard drive for Lerner's computer crashed within the same timeframe as the hard drives used by six other employees, including Flax, noted Jeff Bergner, a former federal employee in the executive and legislative branches, in a July 2014 column for the Virginian-Pilot.

"Each of these six other employees played a role in targeting tea party groups," he wrote. "Try that kind of selective loss of records at your next audit."

Bergner pointed out that Flax visited the White House 31 times during the period the conservative groups was targeted, between 2010 and 2012.

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