Good day all. There is a bill in congress that is just starting to move through the system. The goal of the bill is rather simple. It would disarm all personnel working for the Internal Revenue Service and move any investigations to the DoJ.
You may recall that last year the worst president in American history, Dementia Joe Biden, or at least those who were handling him, came up with the brilliant idea of hiring another 80,000 employees of the IRS. Worse, many of them would be issued firearms. Needless to say, this was not a popular move by the Biden Maladministration.
Once President Trump took office, he started undoing the Deep State’s plans for the IRS, beginning with not hiring the 80K people and transferring others to help with the roundup of illegal aliens. However, this still left a number of IRS agents armed to the teeth. Now Rep. Barry Moore has put forward a bill to strip all the guns from the IRS and sell them to Federal Firearms License holders for resale to the general public. Here are the details from Fox News:
While American taxpayers are familiar with the annual rigmarole of filing their federal taxes and realizing just how much of their hard-earned money Uncle Sam is taking away, several House Republicans are pushing a proposal to take some things away from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): Guns and ammunition.
The “Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act” would disarm the federal agency, prohibiting the commissioner of internal revenue from using funds to buy, receive or store firearms and ammo, and requiring the transfer of IRS firearms and ammunition to the Administrator of General Services. The guns would then be sold or auctioned to licensed dealers and the ammo would be auctioned to the public.
The bill also states that any money made from the sales would go to the treasury to reduce the deficit.
The bill states that “there are transferred to the Department of Justice the authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service, which shall be maintained as a distinct entity within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, including the related functions of the Secretary of the Treasury.”
This was one of the things that people have been asking. Why does the IRS need guns anyway? The IRS has claimed that they needed guns and a tactical team because of their investigations. That begged the question, “What investigations?” The IRS collects taxes and audits taxpayers. They aren’t mean to be a law enforcement agency. We have plenty, (To many actually), of those already. If they find something in an audit, then they can call the FBI, real treasury agents or the U.S. Marshals.
Rep. Barry Moore, R-Ala., introduced the measure, which is backed by three original cosponsors: GOP Reps. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Mary Miller of Illinois and Clay Higgins of Louisiana.
I wonder if there is a matching bill in the Senate? If not, there should be.
The IRS says on its website that its “mission is to provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and to enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.”
What a load of malarkey. The IRS does not provide “Top quality service” and never has. As to “Enforcing the laws?” Yeah, how about no? That isn’t your job. That’s the job of the Department of Justice. All the IRS has done is use stormtrooper tactics against Americans. This is one of the reasons that this bill is being proposed.
But Moore claimed that the federal agency has regularly been “weaponized.”
“The IRS has consistently been weaponized against American citizens, targeted religious organizations, journalists, gun owners, and everyday Americans,” Moore asserted, according to a press release.
The IRS has a long history of being used as a weapon. It’s happened under Republican presidents, but it’s been under the Democrats that the IRS really “Went to town” on Americans, especially anyone who didn’t kowtow to the Democrat narratives. Recall Lois Lerner? She became the poster child of abusive IRS bureaucrats. She should have been prosecuted for her actions, instead the let that person “Retire.”
I don’t know of this bill will make it through the house, but I think it may have a good chance. The senate is another matter. Most of the Republicans would probably be on board, with a few notable exceptions, (Murkowski and McConnell come to mind), however, the Democrats, who want the IRS to continue harassing taxpayers, especially any that might prove a threat to the Democrats, will oppose this. One claim is that it will be “Putting guns on the street!!” Yes, so? We the taxpayers may as well get some of our money back. Hopefully, it will pass both the house and senate and that President Trump does sign it into law.
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Note that the primary reason for armed IRS agents was in conjunction with the revenue aspects of the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms unit of the Treasury Department.
When that section (as the BATFE) was moved to the abortion of an Idea that is the Department of Homeland Security, any reason for armed IRS Special Agents went out the door with them