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Kevin McCarthy stated on August 09, 2022 in a tweet:

“Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”

By Jon Greenberg• August 11, 2022

Bob Good stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.:

“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ”

By Warren Fiske, Jon Greenberg• August 17, 2022

Tom Price stated on June 29, 2012 in a television interview:

Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be "empowered to enforce" the new health care legislation.

By Willoughby Mariano• July 10, 2012

Facebook posts stated on August 29, 2022 in a Facebook page:

The IRS is hiring 87,000 new agents to police people who will owe more federal tax after having their student loans forgiven.

By Luiz Romero• August 31, 2022

Donald Trump stated on August 23, 2024 in a speech in Las Vegas:

“Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.”

By Amy Sherman• August 28, 2024

Ron Johnson stated on August 07, 2022 in News release:

"Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."

By D.L. Davis• August 25, 2022

Joe Manchin stated on August 28, 2022 in a tweet:

“WV families making less than $400K & small businesses will NOT be targeted by the IRS.”

By Amanda Boring• October 18, 2022

Facebook posts stated on August 16, 2022 in a Facebook post:

"The IRS is about to double in size, with 87,000 new armed agents and an additional $80 billion in order to primarily enhance IRS enforcement and operations.”

By Jeff Cercone• August 18, 2022

Association of Mature American Citizens stated on November 10, 2012 in a direct mail letter:

"If you and I fail to defund ObamaCare now, some 16,000 new IRS agents will be begin prying into our private medical records, eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for "violations’."

By John Hill• December 2, 2012

Facebook posts stated on August 16, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Photos show “an IRS agent training class.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• August 19, 2022

Matt Gaetz stated on August 04, 2022 in interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News:

The government is arming up the IRS because “Joe Biden is raising taxes and disarming Americans.”

By Jeff Cercone• August 12, 2022

Scott Rigell stated on September 08, 2010 in a statment on his website:

"Congressman Nye voted against a bill which would have defunded the $5-10 billion" the IRS needed to implement health care legislation.

By Wes Hester• November 1, 2010

Jon Huntsman stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:

"The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate.

By Maryalice Gill• October 13, 2011

Gerry Connolly stated on September 08, 2015 in radio interview.:

"It's estimated we leave somewhere north of $350 billion a year - that's billion - a year on the table uncollected because IRS doesn't have the resources."

By Sean Gorman• October 5, 2015

Tim Scott stated on August 10, 2022 in an interview on Fox News:

“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”

By Jon Greenberg• August 17, 2022

Instagram posts stated on August 13, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Kamala Harris voted in favor of passing a law in 2022 to tax tips.

By Sofia Ahmed• August 15, 2024

Mark Kirk stated on March 21, 2010 in a floor speech in the House:

"According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the IRS would need to hire over 16,000 people ... to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates" of the health care bill.

By Louis Jacobson• March 29, 2010

Chris Murphy stated on June 26, 2017 in a video:

Says because of Donald Trump, "the IRS decided to stop enforcing the individual mandate that was the underpinning of the ACA. That has resulted in insurance companies all across the country jacking their rates up, explicitly because they don't believe that healthy people will buy insurance."

By Manuela Tobias• July 10, 2017

Joni Ernst stated on August 24, 2022 in a newsletter:

“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says with the supersized staff, the IRS audit rate ‘would rise for ALL taxpayers’ regardless of income, and would even result in audits of innocent Americans who have paid their taxes and don’t owe the IRS anything.”

By Lyle Muller• August 31, 2022

Michele Bachmann stated on January 25, 2011 in a rebuttal to the State of the Union address:

The federal government "may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill."

By Louis Jacobson• January 26, 2011

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