House Republicans carried out a pledge to vote to repeal a $71 billion increase in spending for the Internal Revenue Service that was included in President Joe Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act. Reporters called this a “messaging bill,” since there’s no chance it will pass a Democrat-controlled Senate or be signed by Biden.
Chief Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler broke out the “Four Pinocchios” rating under the headline “‘87,000 IRS agents’ is the zombie falsehood setting the House agenda.”
The IRS never announced they would hire 87,000 agents to audit your taxes, although a Treasury Department report estimated they could hire 86,852 new full-time employees.
“We originally gave this claim Three Pinocchios because at least Republicans could point to a number in a Treasury report,” Kessler proclaimed. “But now, after repeated fact checks, there is really no excuse, and we are upping the rating to Four Pinocchios.” He called it “untethered from reality.”
Kessler reported the IRS has about 79,000 employees now, and “the Congressional Budget Office assumes, absent additional funding, IRS staffing would keep falling to about 60,000 in 10 years, so the funding would allow a doubling from that base.”
Fun fact: PolitiFact threw a “Mostly False” rating at Sen. Tom Cotton for saying, among other things, the Biden bill “doubles the size of the IRS.”
Doubling the IRS workforce obviously means the government will collect a lot more in taxes. You can tell because pundits like MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough underlined that the Congressional Budget Office estimated the GOP vote to rescind could cause the loss of $186 billion over 10 years. Nothing offends liberals more than the thought of going soft on taxing the “superrich” — even if many of the IRS audits will target middle-class citizens and small businesses.
Many of the “independent fact-checkers” rained fire on the claim the IRS would hire 87,000 new agents. Reporters like Mychael Schnell at The Hill asserted that the money would likely go for “customer service” or “computer science.” Others have suggested the hiring of janitors.
Kessler made a list of his allies in this anti-Republican crusade. PolitiFact threw a flag in August. Actually, it threw at least five “Mostly False” flags because they couldn’t stand this GOP talking point. The Kessler list also included FactCheck.org, USA Today, Reuters, The New York Times and Time magazine. He somehow left out the other tilted referees at the Associated Press and Snopes.com.
By contrast, Biden uncorked a series of lies and smears that voting laws like those passed by Republicans in Georgia were some version of “Jim Crow,” or made “Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.” All these “fact-checkers” took a nap on that hyperbolic excess, even after the voter turnout in Georgia in 2022 set new records.
Apparently, the “Jim Crow” lies result in heavier voter turnout, so “fact-checking” in this case is … unhelpful. (Kessler flagged Biden for inaccurately claiming the Georgia bill “ends voting hours early,” but left the Jim Crow junk alone.)
Since Election Day on Nov. 8, Kessler has a “perfect” record of checking only Trump and conservatives — on seven occasions — not counting “year in review” posts. This makes sense, since Kessler’s Twitter page celebrates how the leftist comic strip “Doonesbury” noticed his self-righteous aggression on Trump.
These fact-checkers describe themselves as “independent,” but their seemingly inevitable leftward tilt and herd mentality make a mockery of the word. Even if their checks are factual, they appear to half of Americans as a vital cog in the Democratic Party’s messaging apparatus.
On a world wide scale, the democrats now have a legacy no one will ever be able to undo, they are the best liars in the world, no one else wants that kind of legacy.
Actually, the activist core of them are known as the world’s biggest liars for 2000 years!
There will be very little accomplished over the next two years if anything. What you might see is a government agent coming to your home telling you that you will have to house, feed, and take care of a migrant’s family until they can fend for themselves. You will not have any right to say NO.
Don’t forget that all these employees will need buildings to work in, vehicles, and we know some will be armed and trained. The total cost will exceed the limit specified, and will be “incidental costs”. The fair tax(tax on consumption/spending) will put the onus of paying taxes to vendors, everyone, rich or poor will pay the same tax surchrge on anything they buy, such that the irs will have to be reduced in size. All our career pols, of either party will fight this. Never vote for an encumbent, get the sewer rats out of DC and let’s get back to citizen legislators, just as the forefathers intended. Term limits are the answer, but there again, every career politician in DC will fight that. It’s only the voice of the citzenry at the voting booth that will make that happen. Vote whenever you can.
The IRS, FBI, CIA, EPA, FDA, CDC, etc… well basically all the alphabet agencies need to be defunded and abolished. At this point they are the ENEMY of the American people are are diligently working to destroy the US Constitution and replace it with marxist tyranny.
He was born in England in 1966. At age 14, he began with motocross.
In 1985 Mark began his professional driving career.
It’s impossible for Burrow to fare nicely on a list like this after
just 29 career starts, but this rating is sort of a low introductory supply in a negotiation. As if that were not enough,
all 4 wheels also steered — the again ones were moved by hydraulic jacks, and steered either in the same direction as the fronts (at high velocity) or opposite
(low speed). Their pace in coverage should give them a greater
shot to slow down White, who has 146 yards receiving combined in his last two video games.
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labored right into a vicious attack advert. Both ABC and CBS carry in a single day newscasts with some repackaged content material from
the day’s previous community information broadcasts, with an emphasis
on sports scores from West Coast games that sometimes
conclude after 1 a.m.