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September 23, 2024 | IRS Agents for Harris

Martin Armstrong

Martin Arthur Armstrong is current chairman and founder of Armstrong Economics. He is best known for his economic predictions based on the Economic Confidence Model, which he developed.

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The National Treasury Employees Union has come out to offer their full support to the Harris-Walz campaign. Is anyone surprised that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is in favor of a Kamala presidency?

Kamala Harris prides herself on passing the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest spending measure in US history, that initially aimed to employ an additional 87,000 IRS agents. Then the Biden-Harris Administration provided these agents with far more than the power to audit and steal from Americans.

The Biden Administration began arming select IRS agents in 2022 and providing them with basic military training. Accountants were trained by the federal government to raid private residences. Biden attempted to recruit an additional 87,000 agents but was temporarily blocked. IRS agents now must complete “firearms, defensive tactics, and building entry.” This militarized branch of the government is expected “to apply the appropriate degree of force necessary to safely carry out enforcement activities, including issuing search warrants, arrests, surveillance, dignitary protection, undercover activities, and seizures.”

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Why would an IRS agent require training to SHOOT Americans and raid their homes?

Back in the 1970s, I had two armed IRS agents barge in with guns and handcuffs, claiming I owed payroll taxes. I immediately called my accountant who handled payroll who told the agents over the phone that he wrote and distributed the checks. It just so happened I was getting refund checks often, and I actually had one on my desk at the time. I asked why their agency was sending me refund checks if I owed them money. They looked at the check, and it had some code they recognized that denoted it was a refund for payroll taxes. It turned out to be a computer error on their part, and every time we would send in the payroll taxes, it kept trying to apply it to one month, where I owed $2 and promptly refunded the rest. Since the checks were addressed to me personally, I had no idea there was any distinction. The agents left, and I had to pay interest to cash the checks, which I somehow should have known was their mistake.

That was about 50 years ago when the IRS has some restraint. Imagine what the IRS would do now to American families and businesses who are simply attempting to keep up with the ever-changing tax codes?

The IRS has been positioned as an enemy of the people. The government wrongly believes that a portion of every cent earned belongs to them, and somehow they could manage their spending if greedy citizens were paying their fair share. It will become far easier for governments to extort the people when they introduce CBDC in January 2025, and perhaps these armed agents will be out of a job. For now, we must acknowledge that Harris and Walz have every intention of hunting down Americans for taxes to fund their lofty spending packages and wars.

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September 23rd, 2024

Posted In: Armstrong Economics

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