In this important episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie pulls the fire alarm on a provision from the Democrats’ latest Legislative Disaster that doubles the size of the IRS, funds the agency’s new paramilitary arm, and increases the likelihood of an audit for regular Americans by a substantial margin. Before diving in to what we can expect once the bill passes, he walks through the history of the government agency tasked with collecting taxes and how they operate freely from accountability and consequence for people like Lois Lerner, the former director. Next he dives in to the facts of their newly granted powers and what it means for everyday Americans—namely those in the middle class—and how they will almost certainly be coming after conservatives, yet again, out of political animus. This is the new dystopian future we’re soon to be subject to, and Charlie concludes the episode with an action plan on how we may be able to save ourselves from it; before it’s too late.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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How to Beat the IRS Audit00:02:08
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Why Millionaires Escape Scrutiny00:09:53
Who's ready to get audited?
I'm going to get blunt and to the point, straight into the point and be blunt.
It's likely you are going to be audited sometime soon.
Senator Kristen Sinema has decided to join Joe Manchin in what they call the Inflation Reduction Act, which is anything but the Inflation Reduction Act.
But Democrats are getting even sneakier in how they are branding what actually increases inflation to hurt inflation, but they're doing it for marketing purposes.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 appears to have a good shot of being signed into law.
One of the things it does is it expands the internal revenue services, power, authority, and expands their staff.
The Inflation Reduction Act hires 87,000 new IRS agents.
87,000 new IRS agents.
Currently, there's about 600,000 audits that are done every single year.
600,000 audits.
The IRS says they'll now be able to perform 1.2 million audits in the next couple of years, doubling the amount of annual audits that are done.
Doubling.
Now, what's so sick and twisted about this is that it will not be millionaires and billionaires that will be audited.
Multimillionaires have access to great accountants and lawyers, and the IRS actually doesn't like dealing with them.
You see, when the IRS reaches out to a millionaire or billionaire, they immediately receive a pretty thoughtful, detailed, and forceful response by some $1,000 an hour law firm.
It's a rounding error for many businesses and billionaires and millionaires.
They don't even, they hear, oh, I'm getting audited, whatever, my team is handling it.
And the IRS actually doesn't like that because their BS and their nonsense gets called out by pretty talented lawyers and accountants that know the code better than the IRS actually does.
So the IRS gets intimidated and they say, okay, we'll pay this fine.
And the millionaire and billionaire, out of pure principle, drags it on.
Like, I'm not going to pay that.
And the IRS doesn't like it because there's a check and balance because the ruling class actually has access to the intellectual talent to call out the IRS.
And it is the only group of people that actually have the budget to go up against the IRS.
The IRS is one of several independent regulatory agencies.
We call them IRAs here on this program.
I believe the IRS is constituted illegally.
I believe it's unconstitutional the way the IRS has been formed.
Unfortunately, very few judges agree with me, but happy to go back to original constitutional structure as to why that is the case.
So what does the IRS do then?
You know, they might audit a couple millionaires and billionaires, and the millionaires and billionaires will hold the line via the best law firms, best accounting firms, drag it on, maybe pay a small fine, and that's it.
But the IRS, they instead will go after targets where they know they can win.
You see, data shows, according to the GAO, the Government Accountability Office, who actually gets audited?
Well, in the year 2019, out of the 600,000 audits that were conducted, 198,000 of them were people earning $1 to $25,000 a year.
165,000 of them were people earning $25,000 to $200,000 a year.
And then on down, about 20,000 of them were people earning $200,000 to half a million a year.
About 10,000 were half a million to 5 million.
And then less than a couple thousand were $5 million or more.
Now, the argument the IRS will make at a surface is a good one.
Well, there's just more people earning $1 to $25,000.
And so therefore, it might be cumulative more, but the percentage actually works out.
Now, this is rubbish for a very simple reason, which is when you earn, when you are between $1,000 to $25,000, there should be an intentional campaign not to audit you.
Now, I'm not a big one to talk about equity or about fairness or all that, especially when it comes to racial stuff, which is garbage.
But I will say this.
It is deeply morally unfair.
In fact, it is an abuse of government power to have the federal government go after someone earning $36,000 a year who cannot defend themselves against the IRS.
Here you have a multi-billion dollar IRS agency, the Internal Revenue Service.
They're adding 87,000 new IRS agents and plan to double their audits in the coming years.
If you're earning $36,000 a year or you're earning $50,000 a year and maybe you're taking a deduction, a childhood tax deduction, maybe you're running a small business, which by the way, small businesses will get hurt the most on this.
I'll prove it to you.
And all of a sudden the IRS comes and they send you a civil investigative demand.
Basically, we need all of these things.
You do not have the disposable income to go hire a lawyer to fight the IRS.
That's expensive.
You are then now the small against the strong.
That's why the IRS doesn't like going after these millionaires and billionaires.
There's another reason why.
If you're a major Democrat donor and you get an audit notice from the IRS, do you know what you do?
You call up Amy Klobuchar and you say, what the heck?
And so Amy Klobuchar is not supposed to do this, but has one of her staffers meander on over to the Treasury building or over to the White House.
They whisper in the ear and they say, look, this Silicon Valley billionaire, can we just clean this up, get to a settlement?
It happens all the time.
In fact, we transparently saw how corrupt the Internal Revenue Service was back in 2010 and 11 with the Lois Learner saga.
And I'm going to walk through that entire thing and connect it to this.
By the way, the people all behind the targeting of conservative groups back in 10, 11, and 12 were never held accountable.
Lois Learner still receives a pension.
So the IRA, the independent regulatory agencies, this fourth branch of government, is about to double in size.
And something tells me that BLM or the LGBTQ alphabet mafia groups are not going to be the first ones to get audited.
No, no, no.
Those of you that might be Trump voters, enthusiastic conservatives or Christians, according to this piece of legislation that Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin are supporting, means an audit will be coming to your doorstep most likely sometime soon.
Let's extrapolate this.
Now that the IRS can do 1.2 million audits a year over the course of a decade, that is well over 14 million audits.
Out of 14 million audits, what do you think the political makeup of those audit recipients will be?
I overpay my taxes, so you guys are welcome to come audit me because we actually know the game that's being played here.
We know the abusive government.
Back in 2010 and 11, there was a bombshell story.
The Internal Revenue Service announced, not announced, but through the Government Accountability Office and oversight from Republicans, they were targeting conservative groups.
Outright targeting them.
Let's start with when Jake Tapper actually used to be a journalist talking about this story in Cut 69, how the IRS scandal was targeting Tea Party groups.
Play Cut 69.
Lead another nationally, distrust of big government writ large and of the Internal Revenue Service more specifically.
Well, those are cornerstones of the Tea Party ethos.
Now it looks as though the IRS went and proved their point for them.
And the president, well, he says he did not know the IRS was singling out conservative groups until the news broke.
I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.
If you've got the IRS operating in anything less than a neutral and non-partisan way, then that is outrageous.
But I've got no patience with it.
I will not tolerate it.
And we will make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this.
Lie, lie, lie, lie.
Barrick Hussein is a liar all the way through.
He approved the audits.
They had multiple meetings in the White House.
And this was one of the reasons the Tea Party movement lost some of its momentum.
They got audited all throughout the country.
And the Internal Revenue Service, one of the IRAs, the independent regulatory agencies, are continuing now a soon-to-be blitzkrieg against middle America.
If you own a small business, if you are a middle-class American, the IRS is coming for you very soon.
They can't beat us at the ballot box.
They no longer can manipulate elections.
They can't stop the MAGA movement.
So you know what they're going to try to do?
Audit our organizations, target our taxpayers, and restrict the capital supplies via the IRS.
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We try to do some shows every so often on these things.
But look, what am I talking about when I say that?
How about good and evil?
Right and wrong, prayer and the Bible or heaven and hell.
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John says, So what's the big deal, Charlie?
Pay your taxes and you'll be fine if you get audited right.
Question, right?
Okay, John, thank you for emailing us.
Let me just say that sentiment is unbelievably naive.
Let me tell you why.
The IRS has unlimited time and money.
They could stretch on an audit for three, four, five years, of which you have to spend legal fees, accounting fees, defending yourself.
And by the way, a lot of things in the IRS code are intentionally murky to be able to enforce the code against you.
Now, John, with all possible due respect, you don't sound like a business owner.
And this is why small businesses will get hit the hardest.
What actually qualifies as a business expense is very subjective under a lot of things in the IRS code.
So it might look like you're only earning $50,000 or $70,000 a year, but your small business restaurant might be doing $800,000 in business a year from wage deductions to business expenditures.
So if the IRS comes in, for example, and they'll say, okay, show us your books, XYZ restaurant, that just so happens to be a Trump supporting restaurant, and they'd say, hey, why are you expensing Wi-Fi?
Is that really a business expense?
So then you'll have to spend hours with an accountant paying the accountant to go through the records of why Wi-Fi is a business expense.
Hey, why is your cable television bill for your business a business expense?
You say, well, it's because my customers want to watch it.
Then it's up to the IRS to determine whether or not that's a business expense or not.
So with all possible due respect, John, that emailed us, no, it's not a big deal of just paying your taxes, especially for small business owners that take tons of deductions, by the way, and they should.
And if you don't know what a deduction is, a deduction is an ability to literally deduct the amount of gross income or the amount of net taxes that you have to pay or gross taxes you have to pay.
And it's very subjective.
And but guess what?
Most small businesses across America push the envelope when it comes to deductions.
They push the envelope because things cost so much, they're barely getting by, and they don't want to have to pay a 37% tax rate.
So no, it's not just a matter of paying your taxes.
It's a matter of who gets to enforce the code itself, how long they have to stretch it, not to mention the potential hundreds of man hours that they rob from you to have to justify yourself against the Internal Revenue Service.
But it doesn't stop there.
It goes even deeper because the IRS then can go after political organizations or nonprofit organizations and stop the entire potential movement of the America First Movement.
Play cut 70, please.
There's word that emails sought in the investigation into the IRS scandal appear to have vanished.
Some members of the House Ways and Means Committee are already calling for investigations by the Inspector General and the Justice Department.
The committee is looking into whether the decision to have employees in the Cincinnati office place extra scrutiny on certain groups seeking tax-exempt status was politically motivated.
Many of the targeted groups had strong ties to the Tea Party.
Lois Lerner headed the tax-exempt division and gave that order, apparently.
She, though, has refused to testify before the House committee.
And today, the committee was informed that any emails Lerner sent to people outside the IRS in much of 2009, all of 2010, and some of 2011 were lost in a computer crash.
Only emails she sent and received inside the agency during that time still exist.
That means if there was any exchanges between the White House, Treasury Department, or any political offices, they are simply gone.
They're simply gone.
I have multiple takeaways there.
Number one, the IRS just destroyed all their emails because they didn't want to have oversight.
You know what happens if you do that if you're under investigation?
You go to jail for destruction of evidence.
But Hillary Clinton and the IRS, they can destroy emails and destroy devices, and they just walk away scot-free.
No accountability.
Number two, Lois Lerner still receives a full pension, and no one was held criminally accountable to use the Internal Revenue Service to go after conservative groups.
Hundreds of Tea Party groups were targeted to try to stop the Tea Party movement in its tracks by using government force.
The third of which, nothing's changed.
All the same creatures in the IRS are there, and now they're getting a funding boost.
They're getting 87,000 new employees to be able to double the amount of audits they do every single year.
Christine emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
I was audited back in 2012.
They went back four years to 2008, still being audited even after being in North Carolina since 2015.
They'll go back many years.
And so to the email, well, come on, just pay your taxes.
You've obviously never met anybody that has gone through an audit or seen anyone that's gone through an audit.
These people have unlimited time and budgets to harass you and torture you.
And they will steal your time, they'll steal your energy, they'll steal your money to defend yourself to try to break down your business over the back to try to get you to bend the knee.
If you can't beat the MAGA movement at the ballot box, if you can't beat us in the marketplace, well, then just hire a bunch of IRS agents, Soviet-style, to bankrupt and defund the movement.
So one person asked, Charlie, just pay your taxes.
What's the big deal?
Janine, or Jenny, emailed us.
I'm sorry.
Charlie, the IRS came after us for $500,000.
After a couple years, we paid $40,000 in attorney fees just for the IRS to tell us, quote, our bad, you were right in the first place.
We received zero compensation and was not allowed to claim any deductions on future taxes.
Our life savings were poof, gone.
So even if you do the right thing, the IRS will drag you through the process for years and you'll have to defend yourself.
If you've never dealt with the IRS, they're cruel, they're cold, they're calculated, and they're slow.
They will rob you of your time.
And so, right now, according to this bill that Kyrsten Cinema is approved with Joe Manchin, the IRS will be hiring 87,000 new IRS agents.
It's kind of interesting, isn't it, that the senator from Arizona, Kirsten Cinema, wants to hire more IRS agents, but not more Border Patrol agents.
This goes along a theme: criminalize the domestic and prioritize the foreigner.
By the way, I want to hear your thoughts and your experiences with the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service.
I might read them on air.
Lisa said, the person who said, quote, just pay your taxes, has never run a business or filed business taxes because they not only audit your business, then they come after you personally.
Thank you, Lisa.
It's exactly right.
And not to mention, the IRS coming after you, the process itself is the punishment.
The anxiety, the delays, the targeting.
I've known so many people that have lost their savings, their businesses because of the IRS.
It is their way to be able to stop the capital flows to conservative organizations and the conservative movement.
A doubling of the power, all under this thing called the Inflation Reduction Act.
And the way the IRS works, unfortunately, is you're guilty until proven innocent.
And they have all the time in the world.
Their budgets are unlimited.
They're funded by the taxpayers.
And then you have to defend yourself.
Jackie emailed us, Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
Charlie, I was audited twice the last time the IRS went after conservatives.
I was just a secretary, but I was a member in good standing with KUFI and other conservative organizations that were also being harassed at the time.
Someone says, Charlie, use TurboTax and they will defend you.
Okay, but that's not free, okay?
And let's just be honest.
TurboTax is not going to do the best job defending you against a merciless IRS audit.
You need premier lawyers to go up against an IRS agent.
But the other question that I think needs to be asked: so we're doubling the size of the IRS.
Why is the IRS buying up all this ammunition?
So the IRS is doubling in size to double their audits.
So they go from $600,000 to $1.2 million audits.
Why do they need so many bullets?
Play cut 63.
So when they start treating the IRS as a military agency, you should be very worried.
And that's exactly what the U.S. government is doing.
In 2018, the Government Accountability Office reported that more than 2,000 IRS enforcement agents have more than 4,000 weapons, guns, that kill people, remember?
The IRS is also stockpiling more than 5 million rounds of ammunition.
In 2020, the Watchdog organization OpenTheBooks.com reported the IRS has spent more than $20 million on guns and ammo between 2006 and 2019.
$20 million on guns and ammo.
Why do they need that?
What is the IRS planning to do with all of that ammunition?
Certainly would be nice to have an answer, wouldn't it?
From our leaders.
Scott asks the question, Charlie, so in theory, if 2,000 of the 5 million plus are audited, does that mean it will be 4K?
So what does that mean to double the number of audits from those making from 0 to 25,000?
Yeah, so the question is: who's actually going to be the recipient of this?
Working class people.
You see, small businesses are the true threat to the regime.
Big businesses, they got plenty of capital flows, and they also bend the knee easily.
It's another way to shut down small businesses the same way they did with COVID.
Small businesses are always the recipient of the massive government overreach.
Small businesses and independent people think freely, and therefore they're a threat to the establishment.
The great reset hinges on subjects, not citizens.
When you're a small business owner, you are, by definition, independent, self-reliant.
You're more likely to believe in self-government.
If you look at the polls, small business owners almost at a two-to-one margin vote Republican.
You increase the IRS to this extent, you're going to crush the backbone of the American small business community.
And we already did that significantly during the China virus and the lockdowns.
And it's not going to be the alphabet mafia organizations that are going to get targeted here.
No, no, it will be gun stores.
It will be churches.
It will be anything that might be in the faith-based community.
You see, the Founding Fathers warned against an unaccountable government agency.
And unfortunately, our Republican leaders have just completely allowed this to happen for so many years.
And what they did is they've expanded the operation to such an extent where the IRS now basically runs the government and the people, where in reality, the people should be accountable.
The IRS should be accountable to the people.
Melissa said, Charlie, this is all consistent with the means to an end of you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
That guy that just said pay your taxes will live in a whole new world in his own right.
He's a quote, useful idiot.
Well, I don't know, he seemed like a nice person, but or useless eater.
He can choose either way.
He's dispensable.
Andrew said, quote, Charlie, you're so right.
I was audited years ago, but in order to change this, we have to take down the Biden-Chinese Communist Party, BCP, remove the problem, live in the solution.
The structure of our government has gone so far away from its original intent.
The IRS doubles in size.
The article continues.
Oh, it's written by Jake Leahy.
I know Jake.
He's great.
Doubling the IRS enforcement efforts will certainly raise some additional money for the federal government, but it will do so at the expense of middle-class entrepreneurs.
Wall Street is not sweating this.
Big corporations are not sweating this.
They have entire divisions and platoons of accountants to defend themselves.
If you want government to expand, if you want the people to be dependent on the government, this is how you do it.
You increase the people that are going to go after the money and the private property of the citizens.
It's not their money.
It is yours.
But the process is the punishment.
It's all intentional.
Email here.
Hi, Charlie, new viewer, wife 56, and I'm 62.
I stay at home raising 16 and 14-year-old girls.
We paid the IRS over $50,000 in income tax last year.
Still owed another $7,000 after filing taxes.
Recently paid those dirty dogs off.
In fear they might come after me to make things harder.
Protecting Your Private Property00:10:03
We overpaid our taxes.
We're on the right side, not the establishment side.
We're law-abiding citizens.
Thanks, Charlie, for what?
Thanks, Charlie.
We appreciate you.
So, what can you do about this?
Look, I'll be very honest.
You got to file your taxes as if an IRS agent will audit you imminently.
Maybe you have to pay less deductions.
Guess what?
They also know this because they're going to have you now take less risks.
And by the way, because it's so murky, who knows exactly what the IRS code is?
They enforce it differently for every single person.
Remember, the more laws, the less justice, as Cicero would say.
So you have this IRS code that is completely arbitrary, that goes for tens of thousands of pages that very well could be enforced differently based on your political affiliation.
You're a conservative?
Totally different.
You're a liberal?
Sure, that's a deduction.
I wonder if BLM is going to be audited by the Internal Revenue Service for buying up mansions all across the country.
Melanie says, Charlie, are you fear-mongering about the IRS?
Pooh-pooing the idea of using a relatively low-cost tax service that offers tax services in the amount of audit is your way of fear-mongering.
You should be promoting the idea as a viable option.
I use them every year.
Of course, they aren't free, nothing is, but the minimal charge is far a cry from the expenses one would encounter without the protection.
Look, Melanie, I'm sure TurboTax is great.
You want to go deal with a platoon of IRS agents using TurboTax?
More power to you.
But let's be honest.
When they really come after you, you're going to need more than some outsourced major corporate part-time person working on it.
But I'm glad it works for you.
My ex-husband and I owned the second-largest home improvement company in Arizona.
We sold it to our partner in 2001 and moved to Telluride.
The IRS tormented us for the entire ownership of this company for 14 years.
They still had a filing in my name in the county in Colorado up until 2020, which we discovered upon purchasing a new property.
They claimed it was their heir and removed it immediately, but they can and will destroy you if you let them.
Look, I'm glad TurboTax works for people.
If you're going to be under a 14-year torment with the IRS, you probably need a better lawyer and an accountant to handle it.
Just saying.
But for some of you, maybe TurboTax would be great.
Someone says, Charlie, who audits the IRS?
Bingo.
Congress is supposed to, but because the IRS has become so powerful and so strong, there is no check or balance on this.
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Tom emailed us.
Charlie, we have been fighting the IRS for three years.
I made a simple error in the beginning by missing some bank account interest as income.
This went on for over two years, back and forth writing letters.
Imagine the stress, the anxiety.
The IRS isn't stressed or anxious.
When they go after you, they enjoy it.
They're sinister.
They would require the evidence from us with no explanation from them.
Finally, they required $8,000 from us.
We pushed back through our accountant, and months after months after they made our payment, they refunded half without no explanation.
It was a big fiasco with no single point of contact or mailing address on their site.
Of course not.
They don't need to be accountable to anybody.
They do what they want.
Lori Ann, Charlie, I was audited for an IRA account that was embezzled.
The IRS wanted the taxes from that account.
I sent in all the information that showed that it was embezzled, but they denied it.
I ended up having to pay the tax on the money they never got.
It was like I was robbed twice.
When the IRS says you owe money, good luck finding them.
Bannon says, don't give me a problem without a solution.
What's your solution to the IRS?
Okay, we'll talk about that in a sec.
That's fair.
So look, I'm not trying to bash TurboTax.
We've probably, they're probably never going to be a partner of the show after this.
Kirsten said, Charlie, TurboTax has failed our family for two years running due to incorrectly figuring out the government-issued child tax credits.
We end up paying after the fact one year, and last year, our return refund was cut by $5,000 despite taking a standard deduction.
When we reach out to TurboTax, we receive nothing support, little care about the disruption to our family.
We'll not use them going forward.
Of course, they're a big company.
They don't care.
Again, if it's helpful for you, fine, whatever.
I'm just trying to say, though, when they come after you, don't be shocked.
Okay, so what can we do about this?
And I'll get to this one email.
Kathy said, the IRS murdered my husband.
Wow.
Okay, we'll read that one in a second.
It's pretty aggressive.
What can we do about it?
Well, look, it's true.
You got to pay your taxes.
Brace for impact.
This bill would not have happened or passed if we would have won the Georgia Senate runoffs.
If either Kelly Loffler or David Perdue would have won the United States Senate race there, none of this would have happened.
So it did.
And Joe Biden is going to expand and double the size of the IRS.
Someone says we could take over Congress.
Can we stop this?
Probably not.
Once IRS agents are hired, you can almost never stop it.
Once government agents are hired, unless you implement Schedule F, you cannot fire these agents.
So you got to be honest, and this is not a lesson that you guys want to hear, and we don't do hopium on the show, hope or opium.
You have to live your life as if you are going to be imminently audited by the IRS.
And when you get the audit notice, you have to say, I have been expecting you.
It's that simple.
Welcome to New America.
I wish it wasn't the case.
You got to live your life that way.
That means less vacations, maybe, less deductions, less disposable income.
It's the way it is.
Now, that might be the lesson you want to hear.
It's say, Charlie, we could take back the House and the Senate.
It's going to take a major movement, huge majorities, and a Republican president to even trim the edges on this.
Now, a Republican president can do one thing, though.
A Republican president can tell the new IRS commissioner to slow down or decrease the amount of audits.
That can be done.
That is totally and completely true by executive directive.
So that can change by taking over the White House.
One thing that can also change is the first day that Republicans take over the House in January, they have to have an entire committee on IRS oversight.
Call the IRS commissioner in front every single day.
Guess what?
Why doesn't the House of Representatives and the Senate just show up at the IRS offices themselves?
Just show up.
Walk in the building.
Like, I want to see your guys' work.
Enough subpoenas and all this.
Just show up in the building.
What would happen if the Speaker of the House, a Republican and the head of the Senate, hopefully a Republican, just showed up at the IRS building and said, I want your emails right now.
Move over.
Is that not better oversight than, oh, we lost our emails or we have a three-month runway?
Just walk in the IRS building, do your oversight, do it peacefully.
But guess what?
They work for you.
You have a constitutional authority.
In fact, I think a mandate to just walk in.
Why not?
Wait your turn, kind of be a polite senator.
Yeah, the time for being polite is over.
Day one, I want to see an entire group of U.S. senators and congresspeople waltz into the Internal Revenue Service office in the Treasury building, walk into a conference room there, and convene a meeting and say, We want a list of every single person you're auditing right now, the reason and the emails surrounding it.
What is the breakup?
What is the criteria?
How long are you pressing?
What does success look like?
Is there a political affiliation behind this?
What are the organizations that you've been pushing for that would scare them at the core level?
Republicans need to play offense.
One of the reasons why we got to take the House and the Senate.
But I also just want to manage your expectations.
If they get this bill passed, which it looks like they will, it's no guarantee.
Once these IRS agents are hired, it's very hard to get them fired.
So, recap, be ready for the audit.
Pay your full taxes.
It's just terrible.
It's awful.
Don't take unnecessary deductions or risky ones because they're going to come after you.
And then finally, when we take back the House and the Senate with a mandate, we need our elected officials to barnstorm the door peacefully of the Internal Revenue Service and do their job for congressional oversight and not wait their turn.
Hi, Charlie.
Lois Leonard herself wrote one of those letters to my husband pledging to help us.
My husband was badgered into his grave.
We had a duplex, one rental income.
I won't forget, and no one should go through this.
God have mercy on these people.
Regards.
Yeah, look, the IRS doesn't care.
Robert says the new Congress can cut the IRS budget.
That is true.
It can, but I'm going to just manage your expectations.
It's a very low likelihood that's going to happen with Joe Biden as president.
But I think we should start with: we're going to defund the IRS.
Day one.
That's our opening argument.
Brace for impact, as Kirsten Cinema has decided to double the size of the Internal Revenue Service, 80,000 new IRS agents.
That's new IRS agents.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as always.
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Thanks so much for listening.
God bless.
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