Commentary: The IRS Is Coming to Get Virginians Unless Republicans Win Back the House

by Stand for Freedom PAC

We need strong people in Washington who will stand with Americans and not against them, which is one of the important reasons Jen Kiggans is running for Congress in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District. While Americans are struggling to pay rent, buy milk and eggs, and fill up their gas tanks, President Joe Biden, and his Democrats in Congress, are unleashing an army of tens of thousands of federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents to invade the homes of hard-working Americans.

Democrats in Congress passed a phony bill titled the “Inflation Reduction Act” that had a provision hidden in the text giving tens of billions in taxpayer’s cash to the IRS for the purposes of hiring a platoon of new federal agents to collect even more taxes. Soon, voters in Virginia will have the opportunity to vote in Republicans who will repeal this provision of law.

Democrats think they can bully us around because with more armed IRS agents to get what they want from the American people. Republicans have promised to gut the funding of Biden’s armed IRS army with the help of Jen Kiggans.

It is important to send Republicans to Washington to fight this abuse of power and to provide some checks on the out-of-control actions of the Democrat controlled Washington cabal. Republican leadership in the House and Senate have promised to make it their top priority to repeal this provision on law on day one of the next Congress. Reports indicate that Republican House leadership has explicitly promised that “on that very first day that we’re sworn in, you’ll see that it all changes. Because on our very first bill, we’re going to repeal tens of thousands of IRS agents. Our job is to work for you, not go after you.” Already, the Chairman of the conservative caucus in the house has a bill to gut funding for the IRS and redirect the money back into the wallets of Americans. If Democrats are allowed to keep control of the Nation’s Capital, keep your papers in order and expect a knock at the door by the tax man demanding to inspect your taxes.

The Democrats’ law gave $80 billion of your tax dollars to increase funding for the IRS to collect even more taxes over the next decade with $46 billion dedicated to enforcement. The Tax Foundation issued a report on August 17, 2022, where they concluded “increased IRS tax enforcement is not a free lunch, as it will likely impose additional compliance costs for the revenue raised.” It is estimated by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that a similar enforcement package would raise $207 in gross revenue and $127 in net additional revenue. Guess where they are going to raise all that new money? They will take it from hardworking Americans who are already struggling to make ends meet.

The irony is that the feds don’t need more money. Brian Riedl, economist at The Manhattan Institute wrote for the New York Post an Op Ed titled “DC has never gotten this much in taxes — but Dems say it’s still not enough.” Riedl cited the fact that “this year, Washington will collect $4.8 trillion in tax revenues — $1 trillion more than it collected in 2019” that breaks down to “annual tax revenues have leaped by $7,000 per household and individual income taxes are up 38 percent” over the past few years. The fact is that liberal bureaucrats in the federal government don’t need any more money – they need to stop spending so much of your cash they have borrowed from China.

Liberals in Washington want more of your cash to spend and refuse to cut one dollar of waste, fraud, and abuse. We need politicians with fortitude to stand with Americans and not against them. It is time to support Jen Kiggans to stop bullying Democrats who think they can push citizen around because they have power.

Liberals think they can put more guns in the hands of IRS agents and get what they want – which is more of your hard-earned cash to spend.

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Photo “IRS Building” by Tony Webster. CC BY 2.0.