From the U.S. Senate comes this little bit of commonsense:
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Monday introduced legislation that would sell off millions of dollars of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) firearms to pay for the national debt.
As America approaches Tax Day on Tuesday, Ernst introduced the Why Does the IRS Needs Guns Act to reform how the agency handles firearms. The Iowa senator introduced the legislation after reports from Open the Books have suggested the IRS would one of the top 50 largest police departments based on its headcount and stockpiling of firearms and ammunition.
“Since 2006, the IRS spent $35.2 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment (CPI adjusted). The years 2020 and 2021 were peak years at the IRS for purchasing weaponry and gear. Just since the pandemic started, the IRS has purchased $10 million in weaponry and gear,” Open the Books wrote.
Since 2020, the IRS has spent at least $10 million on firearms and ammunition for its roughly 2,100 special agents.
Here’s Joni, outside D.C.:
And Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) introduced the House companion legislation:
“Arming these agents does not make the American public safer. My legislation, the Why Does the IRS Need Guns Act, would disarm these agents, auction off their guns to Federal Firearms License Owners, and sell their ammunition to the public.”
Moore takes the cake with this exit quote:
“The only thing IRS agents should be armed with are calculators.”
As the old (and bitter) joke goes:
“Taxes are funds taken from citizens at gunpoint.”
“No, they aren’t!”
“Really? Try refusing to pay them.”
Bastards. Disarm them. All of them. Perhaps they’d be a lot less arrogant towards us if they were unarmed.
The IRS would be a lot less high-handed with their subjects if they had to rely on the local police to keep them safe at work and play, just like the rest of us on whom they rely for their lavish lifestyles.
Also, do they really need such a high budget every year if they are going to be spending it on weapons and ammunition? I thought they got their operating budget from Congress, which they financed by their ever popular mail-order program and the occasional one-on-one sign-up meetings. They aren’t supposed to be out scouting around for ways to become undocumented tax collectors.
And speaking of taxes, Karl Marx has written that all property is theft. He is wrong and he was such a begger to his family and friends and a total layabout that he never owned any property or income susceptible to being taxed.
It is more correct to say that All Taxation is Theft.
While the Senator is at it – why does the Dept. of Education need a SWAT team? For real, they had one a few years ago, and no government entity ever goes away under Democraps.
Oh, I know, it’s for maintaining order in crappy government schools full of thugs, right?
Thank Obama for that, happened in 2013. All that equipment and ammo should be sold/auctioned-off/hell, GIVEN to worthy citizens since it was purchased by collected taxes.