On the heels of me trying to educate the gullible on the dark side of government (including the IRS) comes a report by The New York Post, quoting from a watchdog group OpenTheBooks, that the IRS spent $5 million in 2021 alone to arm its agents.
And you thought all that these IRS types needed to perform their duties were green eyeshades and a calculator to audit you. Only, of course, if you avoided paying your fair share of taxes.
Think again.
The IRS, as pointed out here before, has a political side to it and $80 billion in new funding is going to allow the IRS to add a reported 87,000 additional agents and arm them to the teeth.
That Post report cited 2021 spending of $2.3 for ammunition, $1.2 million in ballistic shields and more than another $1 million in rifles, shotguns and body armor.
This was to add to an arsenal that prior to 2020 amounted to 5 million rounds of ammunition for 2,159 special agents.
The job descriptions for proposed additional IRS agent hires includes “must be willing to use force up to and including the use of deadly force.”
I guess this is the sort of coercion the left fears it will need if and when it gets tax rates up the confiscatory 90 percent or so rate that would be necessary to fund all their socialist and green initiatives.
Maybe IRS agents can be co-opted to aid in the confiscation of those offending gas cooking stoves.
It seems that the the new-look IRS is going to be so well-armed that Zelenskyy will be envious.
Nothing to worry about here.
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