As the Trump administration continues to mow down the excess spending within just about every government agency and firing apparent non-essential workers, there is no bigger agency that Americans would like its clock to be cleaned than the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The controversial Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act appropriated $80 billion of taxpayer dollars to hire 87,000 IRS agents, which the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee was used to target Middle America.
One of the tasks that those new IRS agents were assigned was to be willing to use “deadly force” against citizens.
"Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary," lists the IRS job duties.
Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) was one of the first lawmakers to outline the new IRS hires' dubious job duties.
Now that the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, looks to slash $2 trillion in government waste and cutting back on federal employees, Sen. Scott and other lawmakers continue to highlight the need to beatdown the IRS and help President Trump usher in the “Golden Age.”
“The Biden administration and Democrats weaponized the IRS to terrorize the American people and raise your taxes, hiring tens of thousands of employees to do so. President Trump is working to ensure the American people have a government that works for them, not against them, as he ushers the nation into its Golden Age,” said Sen. Scott in a statement to The Floridian.
Fellow Floridian and Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Joint Committee on Taxation, Rep. Vern Buchanan (R), asserts that the IRS is not going after the “millionaires and billionaires” instead is most-likely to go after Americans who earn less than $25,000 a year.
“Despite Democrats’ claims that providing the IRS with a massive $80 billion windfall to hire an additional 87,000 agents and auditors would be used to go after millionaires and billionaires, the facts just don’t bear that out,” said Rep.Buchanan in a response for comment by The Floridian. In fact, households with less than $25,000 in annual earnings are five times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else. And according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s official tax scorekeeper, 78 to 90 percent of the money raised from under-reported income would likely come from those making less than $200,000 a year.”
The IRS’ days could very well be numbered as a bicameral Republican effort to abolish the IRS was put forward when lawmakers introduced the Fair Tax Act of 2025 days before President Donald Trump took office.
