The Biden administration has a lot of nerve proposing to double the budget of the Internal Revenue Service and add 87,000 employees.
This plan is set to become law as part of the soon-to-be-enacted Inflation Reduction Act. And it comes around the same time as the outrageous FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s compound in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. The Biden administration has converted the FBI and the Justice Department into functionaries of the Democratic Party’s character assassination campaign. Think they will do the same with a Yankee Stadium full of new IRS auditors? They will be on search-and-destroy missions.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) patronizingly dismisses any concerns about taxpayer abuses by saying, “If you’re not cheating on your taxes, you have nothing to worry about.”
That’s the language of tyrants. I personally went through a three-year dispute with the IRS, which cost me tens of thousands of dollars in attorney and tax accountant fees — until the IRS snoops did a “Whoops, we’re sorry, we were wrong. Have a nice day.” When you are under IRS investigation and the agency places a lien on your bank account, you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
Conservatives haven’t (or shouldn’t have forgotten) the outrageous weaponization of the tax collection agency during President Barack Obama’s administration. Obama political appointee Lois Lerner targeted the Tea Party and other taxpayer…
