Category: IRS

America’s Standing Army

Commentary “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.” — James Madison The IRS has stockpiled 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition in recent years, including 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles and 15 submachine guns. The Veterans Administration (VA) purchased 11 million rounds of ammunition (equivalent to 2,800…


IRS Hiring Spree Is the Biggest Expansion of the Police State in American History

Commentary The Democrats’ new reconciliation bill isn’t just going to be the largest-ever expansion of a government agency. It’s going to be the largest expansion of the domestic police state in American history. Only a statist could believe that a federal government, which already collects $4.1 trillion every year—or $12,300 for every citizen—supposedly needs 80…


Guns of Washington

Commentary “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.” — James Madison Conspiracy theories sometimes have at least a thread of truth in them, which is what makes them valid to some. One of those theories is that the federal government is not on their side. Concern has…


The Sadistic State

Commentary Governor Ron DeSantis has a theory about those 87,000 new tax collectors, some of whom will be armed, as unleashed by the latest legislative triumph of the monopoly party ruling Washington today. He believes that they will be political agents. They will target the middle class in particular, with the hopes of punishing those…


Ep. 51: Podcaster Sam Harris Says He Wouldn’t Care If Hunter Biden Had ‘Corpses of Children in His Basement’ | The Larry Elder Show

Sam Harris, a prominent atheist and liberal podcaster, defended Twitter’s censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop report just weeks before the 2020 presidential election. He admitted the censorship “absolutely” was a “conspiracy” to prevent Donald Trump from winning re-election, but argued it was justified during an interview on the Triggernometry podcast Wednesday….


‘Orwellian’ Inflation Reduction Act Won’t Reduce Inflation, Says Sen. Johnson

The Democrats’ $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act is “Orwellian,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Fox News, saying that it will do nothing to help struggling Americans with high inflation. President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law on Aug. 16, but White House officials have yet to say when the act would start reducing inflation or…


Florida Small Businesses Fear Targeting by an Expanded IRS

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.–On Aug. 16, small business owners and independent contractors across Florida became fearful of their futures as Gov. Ron DeSantis questioned the sanity of Washington. On that day, President Joe Biden signed into law the “Inflation Reduction Act,” giving the IRS nearly $80 billion, with $45.6 billion going towards “enforcement,” which requires hiring…


Manchin Promises to Ensure the IRS ‘Doesn’t Harass Anybody’ After $80 Billion Bulk-Up

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), a key sponsor of the recently-passed Inflation Reduction Act, has vowed to ensure that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “doesn’t harass anybody” after receiving an $80 billion appropriation in the bill. The IRS provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act were among its most controversial. The $80 billion allocated to the…


Democrats Weaponize the IRS to Silence Critics

Commentary The public should be frightened that Democrats are passing new legislation to weaponize the already abusive Internal Revenue Service. For nearly a century, the IRS has been used by presidents and members of Congress to harass and incriminate political foes. In addition to collecting revenue to fund the government, the IRS is a hit…


Data Shows Number of Low-Income Audits Could Triple as IRS Grows

The IRS audited 197 low-income families for every high-wealth family in 2019, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—a number that some experts expected to climb under an IRS turbocharged with more money and manpower. Over the next decade, the Democrat’s new “Inflation Reduction Act” will provide the IRS with 87,000 new agents and $80…