Handing the IRS a huge pile of cash won’t change the agency’s culture. Why does the IRS have guns and play police officer? The agency got into the policing business in 1919 and over time became abusive, conducting armed raids on innocent small businesses exposed in 19 congressional hearings.ĭemocrats won’t tell you there are significant criminal-justice ramifications to giving the IRS this much money and power.Īs inspector general reports detail, the IRS doesn’t respect your privacy or the concept of due process. President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the controversial Inflation Reduction Act. Enough to fill every seat in Madison Square Garden four times. Four times the number of Border Patrol agents. A possible 87,000 new agents are a force larger than the combined personnel on all 11 US aircraft carriers. A recent IRS job posting says applicants must “be willing to use deadly force.”ĭemocrats voted in lockstep to take $80 billion from taxpayers to supersize the IRS. It’s unclear who agents plan to shoot at. The IRS arsenal of 4,600 guns includes 3,282 pistols, 621 shotguns, 539 rifles, 15 fully automatic weapons and four revolvers. How many of the new agents will be packing heat? Democrats won’t say. And the IRS stockpile of 4,600 guns and 5 million rounds of ammunition is downright unnerving. Up to 87,000 more IRS agents in the “Inflation Reduction Act” President Joe Biden signed Tuesday is troubling. It did not specify how much contributions to Ukraine have impacted its military stockpiles, but added that it is working to restock its supplies.An audit notice from the IRS is scary. Just as it is the case in other European countries,” the German defense ministry told the Associated Press.
“Yes, the Bundeswehr’s stocks are limited. Get the latest military news, entertainment, and gear in your inbox daily. Similarly, according to the Kiel Institute, other nations made serious contributions Slovenia, for instance, sent nearly 40 percent of its tank fleet. Pevkur said that nearly a third of its defense budget has gone toward aiding Ukraine. The Associated Press spoke to several European officials, including Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, who voiced their concerns over what the continued donations mean to their own forces. Other nations have also been giving military aid to Ukraine, but their capabilities are been stretched as well, due to having smaller militaries than the United States. Now smaller nations near the Russian border, which are reliant on American arms, are publicly commenting on an internal dilemma: Do they continue to provide weapons as well to Ukraine, at the risk of their own, smaller militaries suffering as a result? military has enough stockpiled ammunition to help it in a brutal, dragged out conventional war against a superpower like Russia or China. At the time, the issue was whether or not the U.S.
The war’s impact on American stockpiles has been a concern since September. The Associated Press reported that European nations are worried about their arms supplies should Russian aggression reach them. Now other allied nations are starting to worry they won’t have enough armaments for their own self-defense. Although not to that scale, European nations have been steadily aiding Ukraine’s defense efforts. The United States alone has given more than 1 million artillery shells, according to a report from the Department of Defense.
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