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srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 1:26 am I am also convinced that there are no essential duties left to be performed by 99% of the federal law enforcement agencies. With the exception of border patrol and the Coast Guard, we could do away with ALL the other federal law enforcement agencies by simply authorizing the states (and their political subdivisions) to enforce federal law.

Wouldn't that make the Founders happy? Instead, we keep growing all aspects of federal enforcement. When I got back from church, the reconciliation process still seemed to be slogging away in the Senate for the "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022," with the democrats now assured of passage of it in some form. Of the several aspects of HR 5376 that has me shaking my head, one is the part that appears in the original bill on pages 32-34. The IRS gets a new, extra, beyond-current-budget allocation of $25,326,400,000 for "Operations Support," and a tidy $45,637,400,000 for "Enforcement."

Uncle Joe has repeatedly said that no American with an income less than $400K will see a tax increase. According to 2019 tax filings, that cutoff represents only the top 1.8% of all U.S. income earners. Joe's other favorite harangue--and the rationale for the new 15% minimum corporate tax--has been that 55 of the country's largest companies paid no income tax in 2020. To that I'd say, first: COVID. Second, those data come from the Institute on Taxation and Economic policy. But if we look closely at their 2021 report, we find that none of the leftist-hated 10 largest U.S. oil & gas companies are on the list, but companies as small as Treehouse Foods (only $8 million in pre-tax revenue) supposedly makes the list of "55 of the largest corporations in America [that] paid no federal corporate income taxes." In fact, only 60% of the 55 companies had pre-tax earnings of $300 million or over; 45% had pre-tax earnings of $500 million or more. Evidently the way to boost the growth of the economy and pull us out of stagflation is to make a company's investing in its own growth a substantial tax disincentive. Yeah; that'll help.

So where does the need to beef-up the law enforcement arm of the IRS to the tune of $45.64 billion come from? I mean, if we look at the total 2020 annual budgets--people, training, equipment, vehicles, buildings & maintenance...the whole 9 yards--for the police departments of Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin combined, the new IRS enforcement allocation (not counting the additional $25.3 billion for operations support) would be enough to run all those cities' law enforcement operations for 19 years.

EDITED: The "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" has passed the Senate on, as expected, a 51-50 vote, with Kamala "I Talk Gooder" Harris breaking the tie. Schumer is at the podium right now taking his victory lap and thanking everyone up to and including former staff members. You'd think he'd just won a presidential election...Lord perish the thought.

This video from Warrior Poet Society just popped up on my YouTube recommendations so I thought I would, you know, share...

Ah, but don't worry about a lack of federal agent resources. The White House plans to double the number of IRS agents! Because, you know, Biden's promise to never raise taxes for anybody making less than $400,000...clearly there must be far, far more people earning more than $400,000 a year than I thought, so many in fact that the IRS needs to double in size to go after them all.

It was somewhat curious news in 2020 that the IRS had 2,159 armed special agents and had spent $21.3 million on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019, including a store of over 5 million rounds of ammo. So far in 2022 alone, the IRS has purchased an additional $725,000 worth of ammunition.

In light of this (and no doubt the planned swelling of the ranks of IRS agents) Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has introduced the "Disarm the IRS" act. My bet is that the bill never gets out of the House Ways and Means Committee, but maybe it will help raise awareness. It's cosponsored by Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA).

Gaetz introduces bill to ban IRS from acquiring ammunition
https://www.thecentersquare.com/florida ... 5f142.html

“I’m not against stockpiling ammunition, but you shouldn’t have to be a D.C. accountant to do it; you ought to be a mechanic in Pensacola,” [Gaetz] told Fox News. The Biden administration wants to “disarm Americans, open the border, empty the prisons,” and “still collect your taxes” with $725,000 worth of ammunition to do it, he said.

allisji wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:39 am All of the rioting, looting, and burning buildings? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was just all of these Betsy Ross flag waving extremists running around slapping people with their pocket constitutions.

Yep. I posted this elsewhere on the forum a few days ago, but maybe it bears repeating:

The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit organization that tracks conflict across the globe, documents 12,045 incidents of U.S. civil unrest from May 26, 2020 to September 5, 2020. Of those, 633 are coded as riots that occurred in 47 states and that included 47 fatalities. For those incidents where there is data about the participants' affiliation, BLM activists were involved in 95% of the riots.

Yessiree. All the rioting, looting, burning, and killing was clearly--and solely--the fault of patriotic Constitutional conservatives. They just went nuts during COVID, joined antifa, and gave up all their principles and morality.