Jackboot Politics: IRS Hiring Thousands Of New Workers

The Internal Revenue Service will see its largest expansion since withholding taxes were first enacted during WWII to enforce the glut of new tax mandates and penalties included in the Democrats’ latest health care plan. Up to 1,500 new IRS personnel are expected to be hired to work exclusively on matters related to so-called ObamaCare regulations and fines.

By Jim Kouri CPP | February 22, 2011

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” –– C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
In President Barack Obama’s budget proposal, the Internal Revenue Service will receive an additional $1.1 billion dollars — increasing that agency’s budget to a whopping $13.3 billion. Part of the increase would be used to hire a reported 5,100 new employees responsible for supporting IRS tax-enforcement and collection programs, with 1,500 of them working on ObamaCare regulations and enforcement.
The “pie” is the annual $345 billion tax gap. This budget would indicate that the administration would like to see the IRS take a bigger bite from that pie.
Nationally-syndicated talk host Neal Boortz, a Libertarian, pointed out, “In the last two years, federal government spending has increased by 27%.” Obama and his [Democrats] have said the best they can do is freeze spending.” Boortz responded.
“Not a cut … but a freeze? You know this is a crock and even I know it. There is plenty of room to cut spending … huge cuts … but Democrats have a constituency to bribe — votes to buy — and that takes money,” said Boortz.