Videos from 2017 that depict Internal Revenue Service (IRS) special agents educating college students at Utah’s Dixie State University on how to take down small business owners have been circulating on social media in light of the passing of the Biden administration’s new “Inflation Reduction Act.”
In the videos, IRS special agents can be observed teaching students in vests that say โpoliceโ and โIRS-CIDโ own how to enter buildings, question and apprehend simulated financial crime suspects, while armed with fake guns.
In one video, the IRS teaches students to take down a mock owner of a landscaping company who failed to properly report how he paid for vehicles.
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) in an August 19 tweet noted that the IRS was not teaching the students about “taking down a billionaire who uses the corporate jet for private trips,” and instead trained them to take down a small business.
Notice the scenario in this IRS recruiting program is โtaking down a landscape business owner who failed to properly report how he paid for his vehicles,โ not โtaking down a billionaire who uses the corporate jet for private trips.โpic.twitter.com/QXlHmDCoWb
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 19, 2022
Rep. Massie’s remarks appear to touch on claims made by the Biden administration and Democrat supporters of the “Inflation Reduction Act” who allege that the provisions of the bill which allocate $80 billion to the agency and call for the hiring of 87,000 new agents are intended for the purpose of targeting wealthy tax evaders, as opposed to lower or middle class taxpayers.
While “fact checkers” insist that the 2017 videos fail to prove that the federal agency is training “a large division of armed agents,” this is merely the latest example of IRS agents revealing their ability to use force.
Valiant News reported earlier this month that the IRS’s more recent 2021 annual reportย shows IRS Criminal Investigation special agents simulating armed assaults and aggressive building entries on urban and suburban residencies.
In the report, agents can further be observed conducting extensive heavy weapons training at IRS field offices throughout the country.
โIRS:CI special agents receive regular refresher training. They attend quarterly training in firearms, defensive tactics, and building entry,โ the report explains.
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โThrough frequent use of force training, they maintain their skills and abilities to ensure good judgement and 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,” the agency added in its report.
Biden this week signed the “Inflation Reduction Act” into law and promised that Americans making less than $400,000 per year would not pay a “penny more” in federal taxes.
However, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report that directly contradicts the president’s claims, noting that Americans who make less than $400,000 will now pay an estimated $20 billion more in taxes over the next ten years as a direct result of the new law, which they additionally noted will have a โnegligibleโ impact on inflation.
Frank907
August 19, 2022 at 10:00 pm
Seems to me that the way to do this is to send a letter asking for documents for the IRS problem. If they are not answered notify that legal action is immanent. Go to a judge for an arrest warrant. Have the U.S. Marshals service serve the warrant and make the arrest. Why do we need a militarized IRS?
Nancy Fielden
August 21, 2022 at 5:24 pm
๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ $๐๐๐/๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ $๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐, ๐ฌ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ ,
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JOHN MAYOR
August 20, 2022 at 6:31 pm
Mr. White!… if I owned this website, and I discovered that some “commenter” was taking down another commenter’s free speech, then I’d remove such an individual from my threads and blacklist/ block the IP address of the offending PERPETRATOR! In addition, I would then contact the Cyber Unit of my Local Police Division and inform a Representative therein, that a visitor has been banned from my site… and then convey to the Representative, the IP Address of the PERP who has Jan6ed/ AlexJonesed a stranger’s free speech… and pointing out to the Representative, that inasmuch as free speech is a SUPREME PROVISION within the U.S. Constitution and within the UDHR (and thus, making it much more significant than the U.S. Criminal Code!), it is essential that a repeat offense be treated by police in accordance with it’sฬฒ severity!
Robert Pemberton
August 21, 2022 at 6:48 am
When you start allowing “nuts” like John Mayer to consume your comments section, as well as people advertising worthless jobs, you have lost control of your site. Please word limits and subjects on this site and make these comments worth reading for the rest of us.
Angelika
August 21, 2022 at 8:47 am
So, aoc had it all wrong, they won’t come to lock us all up in re-education camps, i.e. concentration camps, they’ll just come to our homes and shoot us point blank = much CHEAPER…..
Angelika
August 21, 2022 at 8:51 am
Xi’s ORDER to biden = just kill them all……..
Nick1
August 21, 2022 at 9:30 am
It’s put your hands up time. November is coming. Do something.