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Another Republican lie is born
Letâs consider the lie, endlessly repeated by Republicans and the Fox News-led echo chamber, that new legislation enacted by Democrats funds the hiring of â87,000 armed IRS agents.â Like the âdeath panelâ fabrication during the Obamacare debate, this is a whole-cloth invention designed to stoke paranoia.
Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, sent an open letter last week warning Americans not to work for the IRS. He falsely claimed that the Democratsâ climate, energy and tax bill would add âroughly 87,000 agentsâ at the IRS, creating âan IRS super-police forceâ:
âThe IRS made it very clear that one of the âmajor dutiesâ of these new positions is to âbe willing to use deadly force.â ⌠The IRS is making it very clear that you not only need to be ready to audit and investigate your fellow hardworking Americans, your neighbors and friends, you need to be ready and, to use the IRSâs words, willing, to kill them.â
The IRS certainly isnât adding 87,000 armed agents. It isnât even adding 87,000 agents. In fact, itâs not even adding 87,000 employees.
When you figure in attrition (current funding doesnât let the IRS fill all vacancies), Treasury officials tell me, the expected increase in personnel would be more like 40,000, over the course of a decade â which would merely restore IRS staffing to around the 117,000 it had in 1990.
Only about 6,500 of the new hires would be âagents.â The rest would be customer-service representatives, data specialists and the like.
And fewer than 1 percent of the new hires would be armed.
One of the great mysteries of modern times is why the tard herd keeps going back to the same propagandists over and over and over to be lied to.
They BEG to be lied to, and so they DESERVE to be lied to.
Letâs consider the lie, endlessly repeated by Republicans and the Fox News-led echo chamber, that new legislation enacted by Democrats funds the hiring of â87,000 armed IRS agents.â Like the âdeath panelâ fabrication during the Obamacare debate, this is a whole-cloth invention designed to stoke paranoia.
Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, sent an open letter last week warning Americans not to work for the IRS. He falsely claimed that the Democratsâ climate, energy and tax bill would add âroughly 87,000 agentsâ at the IRS, creating âan IRS super-police forceâ:
âThe IRS made it very clear that one of the âmajor dutiesâ of these new positions is to âbe willing to use deadly force.â ⌠The IRS is making it very clear that you not only need to be ready to audit and investigate your fellow hardworking Americans, your neighbors and friends, you need to be ready and, to use the IRSâs words, willing, to kill them.â
The IRS certainly isnât adding 87,000 armed agents. It isnât even adding 87,000 agents. In fact, itâs not even adding 87,000 employees.
When you figure in attrition (current funding doesnât let the IRS fill all vacancies), Treasury officials tell me, the expected increase in personnel would be more like 40,000, over the course of a decade â which would merely restore IRS staffing to around the 117,000 it had in 1990.
Only about 6,500 of the new hires would be âagents.â The rest would be customer-service representatives, data specialists and the like.
And fewer than 1 percent of the new hires would be armed.
One of the great mysteries of modern times is why the tard herd keeps going back to the same propagandists over and over and over to be lied to.
They BEG to be lied to, and so they DESERVE to be lied to.