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Wednesday 6th of May 2026

By the numbers Number of private debt collections firms that the IRS plans to use to obtain overdue payments: 4 Date on which a U.S. government agency sued one of those firms for deceptive collection practices: 1/18/2017 Harper's Index, August 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage increase in the last year in the number of U.S. taxpayers who fear an IRS audit: 64 Number of successive years that the IRS has audited fewer people than it did the year before: 7  Harper's Index, June 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
The IRS The fact is, blaming the IRS because you hate paying taxes is a bit like slapping your checkout clerk because the price of eggs has gone up. John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, April 12, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
The IRS Not everything that's important is likeable. Think of our government as a body. The IRS is the anus. It's nobody's favorite part, but you need that thing working properly or everything goes to shit real quick. John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, April 12, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
The IRS We should fund them because the IRS is one of the safest investments for public money available. According to the Treasury Department, every dollar spent on tax enforcement yields back six. Six. The IRS sextuples your money. John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, April 12, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo — the IRS. Paul LePage, Republican Governor of Maine © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Give tax cheats tax breaks: underfund, understaff the IRS © 2015 Kwiple.com
Taxes Operating largely out of public view – in tax court, through arcane legislative provisions and in private negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service – the wealthy have used their influence to steadily whittle away at the government's ability to tax them. The effect has been to create a kind of private tax system, catering to only several thousand Americans. New York Times, December 30, 2015 © 2015 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded,  ready to shoot some small business person in Iowa? Chuck Grassley, 88-year-old Republican enquiring mind, fearmongering about plans to hire more IRS auditors to investigate tax evasion and financial fraud © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Before the IRS took it down yesterday, there was a posting — watch this. On their website  that listed the requirements for a special agent's position the major duties require the agents to quote, “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.” A little like James Bond, but instead of hunting down evil maniacs, these agents hunt down and kill middle class taxpayers that don't pay enough. It's Joe Biden's new army. Bran Kilmeade, August 11, 2022, as Tucker Carlson's fill-in host, commenting on plans to restore IRS funding to 2013 levels over 10 years as part of the Inflation Reduction Act [The ad was for criminal investigators who investigate financial fraud by criminals, not for auditors. The special skill needed is to be an accountant able to identify financial fraud.] © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say How long until Democrats send the IRS “SWAT team” after your kids’ lemonade stand? Ronna McDaniel, mulitmillionaire and @GOPChairwoman, 1:50 PM – Aug 11, 2022, fearmongering about plans for the IRS to hire more auditors to audit returns from the rich and corporations who pay zero in taxes year after year © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say If you put this to the American people, and they weigh the two needs, I think they are going to say standing with Israel and protecting the innocent is in our national interest, and  a more immediate need than IRS agents. Mike Johnson on his bill to rob the IRS of $14.3 billion earmarked for it to reduce tax cheating by large corporatiions and the very rich and thereby reduce the national debt by $100 billion in the next decade — in order to pay for $14.3 billion in additional military aid to Israel to help it pay the costs of slaughtering Palestinians © 2023 Kwiple.com