Poll: Americans Back Effort To Block Biden’s Beefed-Up IRS

According to a new poll, a majority of Americans support Republicans’ efforts to block Biden’s administration from hiring 87,000 more Internal Revenue Service employees.

Sixty percent want Congress to stop hiring. Democrats spent $80 billion through the Inflation Reduction Act last year, funding the program with $62 billion. polling Source: Trafalgar Group. House Republicans performed their first act as majority members last week. voted to rescind Nearly $71 billion was spent on the IRS expansion. This would nearly double the size and scope of the agency. make it larger More than the Pentagon and State Departments, FBI, Border Patrol, and FBI combined.

According to the poll, 84 percent of Republicans are against the expansion. However, more than a quarter (25%) of Democratic voters oppose the hiring spree.

The White House defends the IRS overhaul and says it will target the ultra-wealthy. However, the Biden administration is expected In an effort to generate more than $200 billion in revenues, we will target small businesses and freelancers. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, 78-90 percent of new revenue from hirings would come with families earning less than $200,000 per annum.

In 2022, poor Americans had a greater chance of being audited and reprimanded by IRS than those with higher incomes. Washington Free Beacon reported:

The university’s data gathering center discovered that no group received as much scrutiny as those earning less than $25,000. 1.27 per cent of the families who received the earned income credit, a tax credit that provides a rebate for income and payroll taxes to the nation’s poorest families, was audited. In 2022, the IRS audited 0.19 percent of the vast majority taxpayers. This means that the IRS visited the doors of the least fortunate families at least 550 times more than the average taxpayer.

The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to kill the House Republicans’ bill to defund the IRS.

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