So, again, what’s this money for? In the original BBB bill, this section took up a page. Now, it’s ten pages long. It starts on page 1926 of the current version of H.R. 5376 and on page 31 of the Senate’s draft Inflation Reduction Act; versions are slightly different but the total is the same. In the $45 billion enforcement section, we’ve got “…to provide digital asset monitoring….”

If that doesn’t make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up I don’t know what will. The IRS should be concerned only with assets it suspects are being funded through tax fraud and it doesn’t take $45 billion to do that. But to establish the ability to implement Senator Warren’s unconstitutional “wealth tax,” well, it might just be enough.

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And about those 87,000 new folks? The IRS already can’t meet its annual hiring goals. If you worked there, would you let folks know? A friend of mine even kept her family in the dark.

IRS agents are accountants. Now that the San Diego school district is giving straight As to every child who lives in the district, whether or not they show up at school, think any of them will be able to make it through 30 semester hours of increasingly complex accounting courses?
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Buried in the wording is a paragraph giving the Secretary of the Treasury the ability to hire directly into the competitive service without regard for current laws that mandate publicly announcing available competitive service openings. The Secretary can ignore all federal laws that give hiring preference to veterans, the disabled, former employees (that would include those fired for not taking the co-vax), military spouses, Peace Corps volunteers, etc. That’s one way to make sure only those who meet a political smell test get to participate in this new IRS enforcement program.

In re filling the ranks of IRS accountants regardless of ability, Heather Mac Donald has thoughts and facts about the medical schools lowering their standards to raise the matriculation and graduation rates of certain desired applicants, which apply to woke education in general.

https://www.city-journal.org/the-corruption-of-medicine
“Guardians of the profession discard merit in order to alter the demographics of their field”

An inadequate tax accountant might get you sent to jail, but an incompetent doctor can get you killed.

You are assuming there are some who aren’t complicit in the actions we want stopped.*

Replacing Obamacare and Building the Wall come to mind.
They didn’t have any plans ready in 2017, when they finally got the Presidency that they demanded before they could do anything, because most of them didn’t really want to interfere with their (or their donors’) preferred policies.

And we should have had enough support for flat-out repealing Obamacare that Maverick “Benedict Arnold” McCain couldn’t stop it with his sour-grapes no vote.

*I actually believe there are a few, but not enough, and not in higher positions. However, I never let facts get in the way of a good line!

A saving grace would be if the Republicans had a game plan to stop the clock, so to speak, as soon as they take office. But of course they have no time or any particular taste for such dramatic planning efforts. If a Republican is sworn in come January ’25, we may be in for interesting times, or at least I may be wishing for them by then.

I fear it may turn out to be an unavoidable necessity.

As there is no limit in the depth of depravity that the left will not descend to in pursuit of their utopia.

Good men and women do not resort to arms until no other recourse remains. It has ever been so.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

So too was it prior to 1776. Only when very few could argue that there was still reason to hope did the American colonists conclude that only through force could relief from tyranny be obtained.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”

The next two elections will decide whether hope remains.

I have no idea what it is, either, but I did notice this recent article–
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/court-authorizes-service-john-doe-summons-seeking-identities-us-taxpayers-who-have-used-1
Court Authorizes Service of John Doe Summons Seeking Identities of U.S. Taxpayers Who Have Used Cryptocurrency

A federal court in the Northern District of California entered an order today authorizing the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on Payward Ventures Inc., and Subsidiaries d/b/a Kraken (Kraken) seeking information about U.S. taxpayers who conducted at least the equivalent of $20,000 in transactions in cryptocurrency during the years 2016 to 2020.

Teenager mowing the neighbors lawn? Taxable.

And, notification of interest and fines a couple of years after you commit the crime of not paying the tax.