Republicans LYING About ‘87,000 IRS Agents Coming for You’
Desperate that they are LOSING in the polls because their repressive policies are so unpopular (such as anti-abortion laws forcing 10 year old girls to give birth to her rapists child), Republicans invent a NEW conspiracy claiming; ‘Democrats new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you’, ‘The IRS is Joe Biden’s new army’ that will ‘hunt down and kill middle class that don’t pay enough’ and Senator Chuck Grassley; ‘Are they coming for taxpayers with loaded AK-15’s?’.
Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele Calls out Republicans Chuck Grassley, Ted Cruz and others for lying about 87,000 IRS Agents coming after Businesses & the Middle Class
This is the same type of fear mongering and lies we heard from Republicans claiming there would be “Death Panels” after President Obama and Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act which gave millions of people Health Care. These are the same Republicans who echoed Trump’s “BIG LIE” that the 2020 Election was “Rigged”, “Stolen” and “Trump Won in a Landslide”. Believing Republican’s lies can have devastation consequences, such as deaths and incarceration of those who participated in storming the capital.
LIES and FEAR tactics is ALL Republicans have to offer.
The IRS is not increasing audits on middle class by hiring 87K new agents
The IRS Has Been Choked For Years
Economic analyst Steve Rattner discusses new charts on funding for the IRS and the GOP strategy to ‘choke’ the agency.
Republicans are LIARS who will do & say whatever to takes to scare gullible people into voting for them to stay in power. Here’s some of Republican’s FEAR MONGERING tweets…
No, the IRS is not hiring 87,000 new agents to go after ordinary taxpayers
But wealthy tax cheats may have to watch their backs.
Per the above article: “Republican lawmakers and the right-wing echo chamber are spreading lies on social media about what this funding would actually do. In particular, they’ve glommed onto the falsehood that the agency plans to hire 87,000 new “agents.”
“That 87,000 estimate represents everything from IT techs to customer service people who answer the phone and help you file your return. Second, it includes attrition. For some perspective, the IRS workforce last year totaled 78,661 full-time equivalent positions—down from 94,709 a decade earlier. And no, the IRS is not doubling its workforce. Republican politicians know this. But they are lying to make it sound as though jack-booted thugs dispatched by the Democrats are about to come knock down your front door. It is deceitful rhetoric, and it is dangerous”.
Per the above article; “Republicans have seized on a particularly gross conspiracy theory to justify their ridiculous claim that all of this somehow impacts the personal freedoms of every day Trump voters: “87,000 new IRS agents.”
Less than a week after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced a surprise agreement to pass the bill, Tucker Carlson was hosting segments on Fox News falsely claiming that because a small minority of IRS enforcement agents have to carry guns, Biden is “treating the IRS as a military agency” and “stockpiling” ammunition.
Republicans tried to make it seem personal for their audiences, with the GOP House Judiciary account tweeting, “If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you.” But as most Americans do not, in fact, have stolen classified documents about the nuclear program stashed in their broom closet, it’s a tough sell. And so a bunch of Republicans immediately seized on the already percolating “87,000 IRS agents” lie and built on it to spin out a conspiracy theory tying Trump’s false accusations of “persecution” to some larger lie about a “deep state” assault on MAGA America.
“The Biden Admin has fully weaponized DOJ & FBI to target their political enemies. And with 87K new IRS agents, they’re coming for YOU too,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., tweeted last Monday, always eager to be out there first with the most shameless Republican rhetoric.
“Who do you think they’ll weaponize the 87,000 IRS agents against? The answer is obvious. Their political enemies,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., tweeted, always eager to beat Cruz in the race to the bottom.
Unsurprisingly, the talking point spread, with the right-wing conspiracy theory machine hyping the idea that IRS agents are about to kick down a door and kidnap your family — and worse, your guns — any minute now. Fox News, always eager to muddy the waters when Trump commits crimes, got heavily involved.
Ex-Bush Speechwriter: A ‘Loyal’ Republican Is Now Either A Sucker Or A Liar
Michael Gerson also named the group of Republicans who have “the most to atone for.”
Former Bush Speechwriter Says Loyal Republicans Are Either “Liars Or Suckers”
Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, said in order for someone to call themselves a “loyal Republican” they would either have to be a liar or a sucker… because it takes both Liars and Suckers to keep the Republican Party alive today.
Republicans must lie to survive: They have no other choice
From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the path to Republican political success is rooted in profound deception
Per the above article; “The GOP exists to serve the interests of the wealthy and big business that comprise the richest 1%. No party, however, can ever win an election with only 1% of the vote. So to win elections, the GOP must necessarily reach beyond its own wealthy core and attempt to convince a large segment of working people in the 99% to vote for Republicans.
Normally, a political party wins elections by offering policies that benefit the voters. These policies attract the voters who then cast their votes for the political party.
But for the Republican Party, this is not an option. A candidate could not possibly campaign on the policies favored by the 1%. Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I’ll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”
“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions! This would save corporations a bundle and boost profits to the shareholders! Screw the workers!”
“Vote for me and I promise to ship your jobs overseas under globalization! The exact same labor can be hired in Asia for only pennies! Hurray!”
The Republican Party is left with only one option. It cannot possibly be honest about its true intentions and actual policies. The working class would never vote for them. Instead, the only option is to lie”.
