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2022-08-25 -Land of the Free
IRS says workers are concerned for their safety and is conducting a security review in response to Republican criticism over the $80billion in funds being used to recruit more agents
  • The Internal Revenue Service is launching a full security review of its facilities nationwide, Commissioner Charles Rettig announced Tuesday

  • It comes after Congressional Republicans and right-wing voices online drummed up fears over the decade-long $80 billion cash infusion

  • The money comes from the Inflation Reduction Act, the $370 billion bill President Joe Biden's signed into law last week

  • 'We see what's out there in terms of social media. Our workforce is concerned about their safety,' Rettig told The Washington Post

  • The agency will be conducting a risk assessment for each of the IRS's 600 faciliies - the first since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building

  • A number of top Republicans have expressed anti-IRS sentiment including Sens. Ted Cruz, Chuck Grassley, Rick Scott and Rep. Lauren Boebert

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 Remember Democrat President Wilson ended reliance on the booze tax as he wanted to outlaw booze so he started income tax and the IRS.
Posted by 3dc 2022-08-25 00:11||   2022-08-25 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Slow Joe doesn't get it that IRS employees will be despised by family and friends after saying he intends to weaponize them against everyone else.
Posted by Phons Omert2327 2022-08-25 02:45||   2022-08-25 02:45|| Front Page Top

#3 How about hooking my retirement income up to my city water meter. The city drives by once a month and reads the meter electronically. They send me a bill. I examine the usage and I pay it.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-25 03:41||   2022-08-25 03:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Selective IRS agents. They will only go after easy targets. No bad neighborhoods. No minority neighbor hoods. Privileged white people most likely targeted.
Posted by Dale 2022-08-25 03:49||   2022-08-25 03:49|| Front Page Top

#5 My view of the IRS will always be colored by the fact that IRS whistleblowers in the 80's had to be treated like Mafia informants BEFORE congress and have their faces hidden and voice changed. WHY would government whistleblowers require that level of security? Because the IRS is a criminal enterprise, like the demonrat party.
Posted by Silentbrick 2022-08-25 06:48||   2022-08-25 06:48|| Front Page Top

#6 IRS: "Looking for new agents. Must be willing to use lethal force."

Also IRS: "Why do people hate us?! We're scared!"
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-08-25 07:36||   2022-08-25 07:36|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Some reading and writing ability desired.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-25 07:50||   2022-08-25 07:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Thomas "Woodrow" Wilson may be one of the worst-ever US presidents.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-08-25 08:27||   2022-08-25 08:27|| Front Page Top

#9 They will only go after easy targets.

Usually small businesses. Send a letter saying they owe either a few hundred to a couple thousand dollars. The small businesses don't have enough funds to hire somebody so usually they just cough up the money.

Rinse, repeat.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-08-25 08:27||   2022-08-25 08:27|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Your telephone calls will be ignored. Your appeals will be answered via form letters that site backlogs or requests for additional information. Contact with a 'real person' will become impossible. The fare will eventually be paid to avoid interest and penalties.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-25 08:35||   2022-08-25 08:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Ref #9: These firms and many more like them, are already on board and serving our Washington and Beijing masters.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-25 08:41||   2022-08-25 08:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Contact with a 'real person' will become impossible.

It already is impossible - have you tried calling the IRS recently? I might be able to get through if I call early enough in the day but other than that I'm forced to do everything (penalty waivers, etc.) by paper and wait multiple months for a resolution.
Posted by Raj 2022-08-25 08:56||   2022-08-25 08:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Hitler says soldiers are concerned for their safety and is conducting a security review in response to invasion of Poland.

The agency will be conducting a risk assessment for each of the IRS's 600 faciliies (SIC, you simple chimps)- the first since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing of a federal building

I doubt that, but hey nice buzz.

The money comes from the Inflation Reduction Act, the $370 billion bill President Joe Biden's signed into law last week

OH yez, the IRA. That abbreviation means different things to different people.

'We see what's out there in terms of social media. Our workforce is concerned about their safety,' Rettig told The Washington Post

The Tacticool Video featuring a platoon of simps is likely concerned about incorrect pronouns, but we get who your target audience is.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-25 10:32||   2022-08-25 10:32|| Front Page Top

#14 They have time to see what people are saying about them on social media. Explains the backlog, at least in part.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-25 10:35||   2022-08-25 10:35|| Front Page Top

#15 ^^
The FBI staff are doing the same thing.
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-08-25 11:26||   2022-08-25 11:26|| Front Page Top

#16 We see what's out there in terms of social media. Our workforce is concerned about their safety,' Rettig told The Washington Post

How many of those social media posts are posted by bots that are controlled by the Democrat Party?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-25 13:03||   2022-08-25 13:03|| Front Page Top

#17 No. I don't know the answer to that question but I think an educated guess based on past experience is relevant.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-25 13:04||   2022-08-25 13:04|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm starting to think half of registered twatter is bots, is a low guess.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-25 14:23||   2022-08-25 14:23|| Front Page Top

#19 ^ I believe Mr. Musk came to the same understanding.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-25 16:40||   2022-08-25 16:40|| Front Page Top

#20 I used to think 25% was high but acceptable when considering influencers astroturfing, padding stats for corporate advertising, stuff like that. Then you have the pedos, stalkers, and weirdos with multiple accounts so they can do their chat room tricks. And of course advertisers and fake customer testimonials.

Then we find out that not only are they not policing bots, but actively courting intelligence agencies and organizations, organizations which want to create cover for unpopular/immoral actions. Like "We really do want you to be able to pay for your purchase in cash, but gosh golly gee look at all this concern with cash and Covid transmission."

"We don't really want to militarize and go after Joe the Landscaper, but gosh golly gee look at all these threats!"

Reminds me of a movie line:
"From where you're standing, you're a man. From where I'm standing, you're an ape. You're not even an ape. You're a media person. Media's like the weather, only it's man-made weather."
-Mickey Knox
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-25 17:08||   2022-08-25 17:08|| Front Page Top

#21 "Republicans pounce".
Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-25 18:26||   2022-08-25 18:26|| Front Page Top

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