A lot of you are freaking out over the hiring of new revenue agents, and using lethal force, etc. But when you break this down into bite size pieces, its all a giant joke. Heres why:

1. They want to hire 87k new agents. Ok. Cool. Where are these people going to come from? If you have ever applied for a gov job, it is a mfing ORDEAL. You are interviewed 300 times, your family, neighbors are all interviewed, you have to do a polygraph, tons of background checks, etc. They will NEVER get 87k people, I would go so far that they aren't even going to get 10k. Take out the people with criminal records, take out the people that have a less than stellar reputation, take out retirees that are in no way shape or form working 50 hours a week, they aren't going to get a FRACTION of what they need.

2. They actually made it a point to put "deadly force" in the job description. LOL. That is to try and scare you into doing something. No one puts that in a job description. Not the cops, the KGB, no one. That is not a desirable feature to a job, and most places avoid referencing that.

3. Shits and giggles: Lets say they DO accomplish all this. What are they going to audit? for 99% of people, their taxes are just a w2 or a 1099, MAYBE self employed income, and guess what? Most people, who have complex tax situations, have a CPA do their taxes. Even now, when someone gets audited, its over before it even begins. You call your cpa, they deal with your CPA, your CPA tells you if they screwed up, you pay difference. Most tax returns are so simple, you can't screw it up. They are going to go after your grandma and grandpa earning 50k a year off social security? They are probably going to try and go after business owners, but even then, if you have a CPA do your taxes (most do), its on the CPA not you.

4. Take it another step forward: they start auditing EVERYONE. The system is going to get so bogged down in bullshit, nothing will get done, appeals will start flying, and eventually, there is going to be an EPA moment when the SCOTUS will have to decide if they can "interpret" tax law at all.

Conclusion/Theory: This is a huge nothing burger, its designed to piss off a certain subset of people to get them to do something.

The mandate was another example of this. There were about 800 different ways courts could rule it was unconstitutional, and yet they used ... OSHA ... to implement it. Thats one of the weakest ways they could have done it. They knew it was never going to work, it was just a scare tactic. There were so many ways it would fall on its face, but they publicized it and pushed it and scared the shit out of ppl.

Then the "ministry of truth" happened. It had 0 teeth, it couldn't do anything, and even if it did, that would go up to the supreme court faster than you can say truinallizazzlepressure.

Now this. Its all a joke. The fact that they have to resort to this is the biggest chunk of hopium you could ever have. It means they don't have anything else they can do.