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You Too Can Be an IRS Agent if You Can Legally Carry a Gun and are Willing to Use It

April 30, 2023 by Dan Zimmerman

These agents investigate financial crimes, money laundering, tax-related identity theft, and terrorist financing efforts. They are the only IRS workers who are permitted to carry and use firearms. Required to work a minimum of 50 hours a week, always on call even during vacations and weekends, these agents will need to be fit so they … Read more

Good News: The IRS Promises it Won’t Use Any of the $80 Billion in New Funds it’s Getting for More Armed Agents

April 8, 2023April 8, 2023 by Dan Zimmerman

As is the custom, Congress and the Biden administration used the passage of the hilariously-named Inflation Reduction Act to tack on all kinds of additional pork totaling about $740 billion in newly printed dollars. That’s the bill that West Virginia’s credulous Senator Joe Manchin rolled over for, buying Chuck Schumer’s and Biden’s all-too-predictably bogus promises … Read more