AK-15's? Republicans Use False Rhetoric To Attack Just-Passed Reconciliation Bill

[Webster]

(The Guardian) The Democratic spending bill Biden signed into law last week to fight climate change and lower health care costs also reversed years of underfunding at the Internal Revenue Service. The Guardian’s Joan E Greve reports on the Republican counterattack to the money, which relies on claims that are more or less false: The picture that the top Republican painted was both vivid and terrifying. He warned that additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service would lead to armed auditors banging down front doors to squeeze hard-earned dollars from working Americans.

“Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded, ready to shoot some small-business person in Iowa with these?” Senator Chuck Grassley said on Fox News last week.

The Orwellian image conjured up by Grassley bears little resemblance to reality. Democrats have indeed directed nearly $80bn to the IRS over the next 10 years as part of their climate and healthcare spending package, the Inflation Reduction Act, which Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday.

Armed ... auditors? The IRS becomes the latest target of GOP misinformation

Some Republicans have spread false information about how new funds will be used by IRS, stoking outrage and alarming experts

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[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Just what we need another heavily armed section of the government. I’m feeling good about an expansion of government agency specifically for going after people under the guise of taxes to attack peoples political beliefs. And what’s dangerous about this expansion is it could happen whoever is in charge left or right because that kind of expansive power creates corruption. The left has just made America more dangerous.

 

[KenDaGamer]

Just what we need another heavily armed section of the government. I’m feeling good about an expansion of government agency specifically for going after people under the guise of taxes to attack peoples political beliefs. And what’s dangerous about this expansion is it could happen whoever is in charge left or right because that kind of expansive power creates corruption. The left has just made America more dangerous.

 

[Webster]

Just what we need another heavily armed section of the government.

Could they at least get the name of the weapons right?
I mean, an AK-15?!?

Seriously?

 

[Webster]

I’m feeling good about an expansion of government agency specifically for going after people under the guise of taxes to attack peoples political beliefs.

Then pay your taxes, Serafin, and you won't have to worry about them.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Then pay your taxes, Serafin, and you won't have to worry about them.

Because government is so well known for leaving people alone if you just pay your taxes. But we know this is not the purpose for what they are doing.

 

[Webster]

Because government is so well known for leaving people alone

Yeah, just follow the rules and law; that's all you have to do.

Period, end of story.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Yeah, just follow the rules and law; that's all you have to do.

Period, end of story.

Half billion slaughtered people across the globe in the 20th century show otherwise. It’s a power grab to control you.