IRS training...

"FTA: The Internal Revenue Service 2021 report contains a bit more information about who the IRS aims to target – you. These special IRS Criminal Investigation agents are armed and ready to prevent a penny from leaving the government’s control. After only six months of training, these armed accountants will learn how to use weapons and other law enforcement tactics against the general population.

Agents at the National Criminal Investigation Training Academy (NCITA) participated in mock raids on suburban houses. The Criminal Investigator Training Program (CITP) is followed by a 14-week NCITA Special Agent Investigative Techniques (SAIT) course. “The SAIT program trains new agents in tax law, evidence gathering, interviewing, report writing, methods of proving unreported income, and money laundering violations. It also provides physical fitness conditioning and use of force training, which includes firearms, weaponless tactics, and building entry,” the report states.

Additionally, agents will need to complete quarterly training in “firearms, defensive tactics, and building entry.” How often do they plan to raid homes under the guise of taxes? The report states that these agents will “use good judgment” in order “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.”

They are not doing this on a grand scale to target drug dealers and organized crime leaders. The government is preparing an independent army of IRS agents who can work undercover, spy on citizens, and seize assets under their “good judgment.” Very “Orwellian” indeed."

Tax evasion is organized crime with the specific intent of driving this nation into bankruptcy

@athousandyoung said
Tax evasion is organized crime with the specific intent of driving this nation into bankruptcy

@shallow-blue said
Nah. If it were that, it'd have a real goal, and one that frankly, I'd support. But tax evasion is merely the love of money. Nothing deeper, nothing more intelligent. Just greed and arrogance.

https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.

This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”

Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.

This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus right in the face.

You're both right. On an individual basis tax evasion is just love of money. But on an organized basis like with the GOP it's with the goal pointed out above.

@athousandyoung said
Tax evasion is organized crime with the specific intent of driving this nation into bankruptcy

@mott-the-hoople said
Why this?

"Agents at the National Criminal Investigation Training Academy (NCITA) participated in mock raids on suburban houses.

https://www.businessinsider.com/where-wealthy-americans-moved-during-pandemic-luxury-real-estate-suburbs-2021-3

The wealthy flooded 4 suburbs during the pandemic, snapping up large, amenity-laden homes with zero concerns about commutes

@vivify said
You're both right. On an individual basis tax evasion is just love of money. But on an organized basis like with the GOP it's with the goal pointed out above.

@soothfast said
Destabilizing the government destabilizes the nation. If the government collapses and takes the FBI and other federal law enforcement entities with it, the revolutionary mobs could rise up and seize the property and persons of these billionaires faster than the latter could raise and train private armies using their ill-gotten trillions. But much of their wealth would van ...[text shortened]... with the concomitant collapse of US markets and currency.

A dark and short-sighted path, this is.

Rev 6, updated for the times:

When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A studio apartment for $1500, and minumum wage of $15; but do not tax the landlords and other passive income."

YouTube : History Teachers French Rev

@athousandyoung said
It relies on the assumption that the Left will back down indefinitely..."if they have no bread let them eat brioche"...

@mott-the-hoople said
"FTA: The Internal Revenue Service 2021 report contains a bit more information about who the IRS aims to target – you. These special IRS Criminal Investigation agents are armed and ready to prevent a penny from leaving the government’s control. After only six months of training, these armed accountants will learn how to use weapons and other law enforcement tactics ag ...[text shortened]... undercover, spy on citizens, and seize assets under their “good judgment.” Very “Orwellian” indeed."

@athousandyoung said
It relies on the assumption that the Left will back down indefinitely..."if they have no bread let them eat brioche"...

[quote]Rev 6, updated for the times:

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@soothfast said
Destabilizing the government destabilizes the nation. If the government collapses and takes the FBI and other federal law enforcement entities with it, the revolutionary mobs could rise up and seize the property and persons of these billionaires faster than the latter could raise and train private armies using their ill-gotten trillions. But much of their wealth would van ...[text shortened]... with the concomitant collapse of US markets and currency.

A dark and short-sighted path, this is.

Let us not lose sight of the fact that the legislators ONLY determine what people pay for taxes. The people never have a say.
Does that seem fair...? You have some tax enforcement org (IRS) saying "you owe", which in reality, we do NOT owe.

For many decades now, the tax man has really screwed the poor people in America. The elderly, too.
Yet the people meekly comply, fearing the consequences.

@earl-of-trumps said
Let us not lose sight of the fact that the legislators ONLY determine what people pay for taxes. The people never have a say.
Does that seem fair...? You have some tax enforcement org (IRS) saying "you owe", which in reality, we do NOT owe.

For many decades now, the tax man has really screwed the poor people in America. The elderly, too.
Yet the people meekly comply, fearing the consequences.