(02-18-2024, 04:52 PM)Nugget Wrote: 80,000 new armed IRS has me thinking it's not overblown, it's just in the early stages still. They're rapidly tying up loose ends, though.
I know people who work for cash on weekends to suppliment their income. I help my kids when they're in a pinch. Things like that don't get reported as income, but when everything goes computer and their spending excedes their declared income there's going to be a lot of gnashing of teeth.
I expect to see laws requiring stiff penalities for 'gaming the system' to be quietly passed first, though-and perhaps include the loss of real property as we see with some drug laws.
If you go read the employment opportunities site on the IRS (https://www.jobs.irs.gov/), the 80,000 agents are mostly paperwork jobs. The number of enforcement agents (criminal investigation agents https://www.jobs.irs.gov/resources/job-d...cial-agent ) being hired is fairly small.
They don't need people to run around with guns. What they need are clerks who will actually help process the tax forms. while shooting the paperwork might be emotionally satisfying, it's not a lot of help in getting your tax returns processed efficiently.
And hopefully they can start enforcing things with millionaires and billionaires (the ones most likely to game the system.)
