Commentary
Along strict party lines, with Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote, the U.S. Senate passed the Democrats’ misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” on Aug. 7, which they claim is “a landmark climate, health care and tax bill,” and which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) calls “life-changing legislation.”
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill also along party lines on Aug. 12 after a limited floor debate. Considerable attention, especially by Republicans and independent media, has been focused on a key tax provision that will provide $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service to fund 87,000 new IRS agents.
Pelosi may have been right about the legislation being “life-changing,” as anyone who has endured an IRS audit can attest. And adding 87,000 new IRS agents will ultimately change a lot of lives of unsuspecting Americans well into the future. But is there more to this than just the scary sound-bite? Are there underlying ulterior motives long pursued by the Democrats associated with this expansion of the IRS?…