There was an uproar a while back about the Internal Revenue Service advertising for new gun-toting agents.
They quietly dropped the requirement.
But now it’s back.
Maybe I’m a bit slow, but I cannot think of one single reason why the IRS needs armed agents. I can see that they might need security at their offices as, frankly, nobody like the IRS.
But armed agents? No idea why.
It used to be they’d take your money with a pen or a computer program.
Now they’re armed.
WHY DOES THE IRS NEED GUNS?
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They’ve spent millions on guns and ammunition. But, according to them, it’s OK as they are well-trained.
Again, I see no reason for them to be armed. If they need to apprehend some egregious tax cheat — or some senior citizen who got a bit confused by the over 6,800 pages of the tax code — they can bring along local law enforcement.
Militarizing the IRS just tells us the lengths they will go to get our money.