AMAC Exclusive – By Tammy Bruce
If you thought destroying our energy independence, causing the worst inflation in 40 years, destabilizing the economy in general, and destroying our supply chain would be enough to satisfy the Democrats, think again. Since crushing the security, optimism, and financial freedom of Americans wasn’t enough, they’ve now decided to turn the screw even more by raising taxes and lying to our faces about it. For the left, this is the cherry on top of the Democrats’ Drop-Dead America sundae, also known as the “Inflation Reduction Act” of 2022.
You will not be surprised to learn – just like how inflation wasn’t transitory, how the border is not closed, how the Taliban won’t take over Kabul for at least two years, and how al-Qaeda is gone from Afghanistan – that despite the laughable title, the bill will, in fact, increase inflation. Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) reports, “The Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) released its preliminary estimates of the budgetary and macroeconomic effects of Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spending spree… The Model, an initiative of the University of Pennsylvania, found that Democrat’s misnamed ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ would actually increase inflation for the next two years.”
One of the most revealing aspects of this bill is that it expands and further weaponizes the IRS against middle-class Americans and those on the economic margins of society. The 80 billion dollar bill will allow the hiring of 87,000 new IRS investigative agents. As Grover Norquist, the president of ATR notes, this is more than all the servicemen and women who serve on our aircraft carriers around the world. That’s also 87,000 new members for the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), a union which, according to ATR, “dedicates 97 percent of its political spending to Democrats.”
The Wall Street Journal pulled no punches with their condemnation of the bill’s true impact:
“The $80 billion is more than six times the current annual IRS budget of $12.6 billion. The money will be ladled out over nine years and comes with few strings attached. The main Democratic command is for the tax agency to bring the hammer down on taxpayers. The bill earmarks $45.6 billion for ‘enforcement,’ including ‘litigation,’ ‘criminal investigations,’ ‘investigative technology,’ ‘digital asset monitoring’ and a new fleet of tax-collector cars. The result will be far more audits, civil suits, and criminal referrals.”
This monstrosity is a Hail Mary pass to continue the leftist “painful transition” as Biden calls it, consisting of the disastrous Green New Deal (including new direct hits on natural gas production), extending ObamaCare subsidies, while massively increasing the IRS and implementing back-door taxes on Americans as we fall further into recession.
Fox Business reports, “The Inflation Reduction Act — unveiled Wednesday by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and endorsed by Biden — would increase tax revenue by $16.7 billion from Americans earning less than $200,000 a year, according to nonpartisan analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT)… Nearly every tax bracket would pay more in taxes with those making below $10,000 per year seeing the largest uptick, the analysis showed.”
Moreover, the US Government Accountability Office confirms, “From fiscal years 2010 to 2021, the majority of the additional taxes IRS recommended from audits came from taxpayers with incomes below $200,000,” and “Audits of the lowest-income taxpayers, particularly those claiming the EITC, resulted in higher amounts of recommended additional tax per audit hour compared to all income groups except for the highest-income taxpayers. IRS officials explained that EITC audits are primarily pre-refund audits and are conducted through correspondence, requiring less time.”
And why is that? Because a letter from the IRS demanding more money is rather intimidating and when you don’t have the money to hire a lawyer to defend yourself many feel they have no other option but to find a way to squeeze more blood out of that bank account rock, or your brother-in-law, or a credit card. Voila! A quick resolution.
And here we have, like ghouls, the IRS crowing about how letter audits have the best dollar return for the least amount of time spent. If this bill passes, get ready for more of that. During a recession with massive inflation, even fewer Americans will be able to afford the time and legal services to defend themselves properly against the government.
Somehow, I think the Democrats know that. And yet Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) keeps insisting there are no taxes in this bill. He knows that’s just semantics. He knows you will be paying more money to the IRS, it just won’t be through an official tax. Instead, it’ll be an IRS agent demanding it from you in a letter or with a knock on your door.
Shame on him for helping to facilitate such a fraud.
If Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) has his way, it will also include a new expansion of Medicare as a vehicle with which to slow-walk all of us into Single Payer Healthcare, also known as Nationalized Healthcare.
So if you loved what happened during COVID, nationalized healthcare offers up that catastrophe on steroids. The only question left will be how many more of our seniors can politicians send to their deaths in nursing homes? Because after all, health insurance is not about access to healthcare, it’s about bureaucrats deciding who will not be granted access.
Whether this bill passes or not, it is a stark reminder of what the Democrats are capable of as we continue to suffer under their already disastrous policies. This Schumer-Manchin bill is a shill for a massive government expansion and the destruction of your financial independence. After all the damage politicians have inflicted on our lives during the past 18 months, they have stepped up to enforce the final indignity—they want to make us all wards of the state. This cannot continue and will not if we make sure our voices are heard.
We would NEVER have this FASCISM under PRESIDENT TRUMP.
Had enough AMERICA?
Then put PRESIDENT TRUMP back in where he IS the LEGAL and CONSTITUTIONAL President for 2020 election.
ONLY YOU AMERICA can STOP this FASCISM under DICTATOR Beijing biden and COMMUNIST Party.
Or, as I said before…Start learning how to speak Communist Chinese under DICTATOR Beijing biden since they own him.
Here’s a truism of socialism or communism: No matter how many victories they achieve, no matter how destructive and regressive the policies inflicted on the masses may be, it is NEVER enough. There is always “one more thing”, “one more goal to strive for” that has to be changed or eliminated to achieve their unattainable goal of perfection. The pain and suffering never lets up on the masses under socialism or communism, because there is always another change necessary to bring about the so-called Utopia on earth that the leaders of socialism or communism seek to implement.
That the American people have chosen to sit idly by as their country and society is systematically dragged towards a deeply flawed ideology that has failed everywhere it has ever been implemented is the real issue not being discussed by any of these articles. Most people understand that socialism or communism is bad and produces universal poverty and societal misery. What is never written about is why the American people have for some bizarre reason chosen to simply go along with these changes in such a passive way. Now that would be an interesting set of articles for all these AMAC authors to tackle.
The rumor is that Manchin traded a pipeline for tax increases and green new deal. So much of what congress does is incredible but we stand by helpless. We all have to vote, every sober person in every state.
It does the exact opposite of what its name implies.
Shame on them for even saying 80 billion when FEMA is literally handing out 1.9 billion a month to two million illegal aliens. Some are even getting $2200 a month! How many of us are making-clearing I should say, $2200 a month? I’m not on my retirement money, and I get two checks, one from the hospital and one from my school nursing. My husband brings home decent money from his letter carrier account but we still make less than 55,000 a year now, it’s crazy. We were at 85-90,000 at one point!
The current administration’s policies prove the fraud of the election. No one would, knowingly, have voted for the consequences of Biden’s policies. What makes them think they have the consent of the governed or can assume that any exercise of power, not having, legitimately, derived it? If anything the protests of January 5 and 6 prove this beyond doubt, and this is what Democrats fear, that they do not, in fact, represent the constitutionally prescribed purposes of government. We must ensure honest, fair and accurate elections. The future of the country depends on it.
That new fleet of vehicles for IRS…wonder if they will be electric vehicles.
Have they thrown in anything about taking federal control of elections in this bill? Because that would be like two cherries on top.
Here is where I am now considering big government is coming for us like bony, skeletal fingers of death choking our throats:
I am only one person, but I swear to be one of those people who loudly voice my resistance to the demonic social agendas being pushed on us as now. Granted, I don’t have a big platform, but I can do it on social media until they cancel me.
I only support pro American candidates who will staunchly and fiercely prevent one iota of legislation to pass that does not promote positively the United States and our families.
Call me racist, call me a prude, call a religious zealot, call me whatever you want, I won’t shut up until, God willing, we are rid of all marxist in our country.
Lying Jackass Joe’s inflation Inducement Act IS a colossal failure and “SHOULD” only highlight why the Commies should get trounced next election. But if they could “steal” the last election, they could very well steal the next election from the hapless seemingly clueless Republicans!
This is ALL Obama 2.0, without the flash & glitter. Not ONE MORE spending bill should be passed until JB & KH are gone. 87,000 new IRS agents will again start targeting conservatives just as they did during Obama’s time. NO NO NO NO NO
The democrat party and every single member is treasonous. they are need to be given two minute trials and fifteen minute hangings.
Nothing to add – a spot on article.
Everyone needs to know that the Audubon society is backing this bill in the name of “climate change”. Just got a forwarded message urging everyone to urge their senators to vote for it. Other environmental groups are probably doing the same. Even more important that we urge our senators to oppose it.
What this article does not mention is the fact that the IRS owns at least 4,600 firearms and have stockpiled more than 500,000,000 rounds of ammunition. Just what does the IRS need this firepower for?
Biden administration lies: The border is secure. Our economy has plenty of good indicators. Putin is responsible for the high oil and gas prices in the US. We’re doing all we can to encourage more domestic oil production. The crime rates in many cities are not going significantly up. We’re doing everything we can to keep our supply chains strong. America is a systemically racist country. The undocumented immigrants are helping our country stay stronger — economically and socially. Gas prices are going down. Black Lives Matter is helping blacks. Equity between blacks and whites needs to be improved. The lies just keep on coming. The propaganda just keeps on getting stronger and stronger. Biden and his henchmen spread hate and destruction, and many ignorant, apathetic ingrates are fully on board.
Why is the IRS buying up so much ammunition? Maybe they will use it to force us to pay the higher taxes for the new bill, or seize out homes!
Blah..Blah..Blah..Blah..Blah……doesn’t anyone around here get tired of hearing all the bad news and abuse we are taking. I hear all the time “we the people ” rhetoric but “we the people” aren’t able to do anything. I keep hearing midterms, midterms. How do we know these cheating, lying, scum won’t steal these elections again? This administration is destroying our great nation and here “we the people” are stuck with our hands behind our backs just watching. How could anyone, whether Democrat or Republican think this is OK? It’s not a matter of political party, it’s a matter of the freedoms we are born with. It’s a matter of a future we leave to our children and grand children. This nation is headed towards Marxism and a two tier nation, the rich vs the poor. Google Carl Marx and his beliefs or Adolph Hitler and how he came to power. Wake up America before it’s too late, especially the Christian church and the leaders in the pulpit who preach tranquility and submission. Unfortunately the Bible doesn’t teach bending to evil and a tyrannical gvt….Jesus never did. They will be coming for you and your church sooner than you think and when they carry you out in handcuffs and put you behind bars it will be too late. WAKE UP AMERICA before it’s to late
Does AMAC have some rules about posting here that they do not share with us? I am really sick and tired of attempting to up-vote a comment only to be denied that privilege with a pop-up message that says “You are not allowed to vote for this comment”. And don’t try to tell me it is because I already voted for it, because the message pops-up the very 1st time I try to vote on a comment.
Oh…I forgot to mention…along with all the IRS people their hiring who do you think will pay for their salaries. The same people (the poor and middle classes) they will be scrutinizing and targeting. By the way the gvt just bought for the IRS weapons and millions if rounds of ammunition….no lie. But they want to take your guns away, don’t you get it by now?
This article states the truth about DemocRats , i live in Ga. and in Nov. we have 2 very powerful elections ,, Warnock to stay our senator and Abrams trying to become our governor ,, both are out right liars to the people and will destroy Ga. if given the chance ,, Warnock would not be where he is right now if the people of rural Ga. had gotten of there ass and voted ,,, GA. NEEDS YOU IN NOV. TO BE AT THE POLLS ,,, PLEASE
This government is not listening to the citizens that “hired” them. It seems to fall on deaf ears. They just don’t care. We are the stupid ones and don’t understand what we are doing, so they need to “help us”. We need our good Representatives to take a strong, sturdy, loud stand against this and anymore socialist steps.
Manchin was supposed to be the check on this spending, look into what Schumer offered him, no doubt he is now set for life with no worries. Or they have some dirt on him.
Just like the people who talk most about racism are actually the biggest liars and total racist themselves. Lying about savings, for a Democrate is all about spending. The Democrates want this bill passed to use the money to further lie to Americans about loosing our Democracy when they plan to further their rule or ruine autocratic policies to subject free Americans to more government control and scrutiny. Just like all the political commercials now blasting on every public television station. One lie after another with nothing worthy being said. Americans want the freedom our forefathers invisioned and generations of Americans since sacrifice for and worked to maintain. These sacrifices and American blood in our sand was to limit any government’s control of a free people, including our own!
Manchin turned out to be a typical Democratic lying PUTZ. Does he understand how stupid “reduces the deficit 320 billion over 10 years sounds? 30 a year, JEEZ. Nothing about the asinine national debt. It might slow inflation down in 10 years but will do SQUAT for the immediate situation.
wake up America we are letting this happen. waiting for some election in november that will Not magically restore the United States. if you have to ask What can we do You are the Problem.
Just another step toward communism, according to Nikita Kruschev’s warning.
First vaccination against this is due in Nov 22 with a super booster in 24. Smokie says “only you can reverse this shit storm”.
They will further weaponize the IRS, which has already purchased millions of rounds of ammunition and will come at us with fraud and force. Don’t be surprised to see many more audits where they change the decimal on w2s and 1099s.
This should not surprise anyone. The Marxist democrat party is the evil in our time. Washington DC will not fix itself, it will require We The People to do that. Remember, all the pain you feel is the result of democrats, RINO republicans and their Marxist policies. God bless America and get out and vote.
80 billion? IRS won’t see 20% of that,All these bills if the money could be traced a lot of it is in the Cayman Islands.I vote for 82 Airborne to go get it and the name of depositors. This is banana split time on a hot summer day . Spend all they can and scrape off a healthy percentage. Carrying charges. My opinion.
And y’all wonder why these lovely people are SO hellbent on disarming We The People!
Alrighty then.
fjb etc etc
The IRS is buying up ammunition!! I just finished a book about the Civilized Tribes before the Trail of Tears ( an atrocity committed against them by the first Democratic President Andrew Jackson who had all their homes, property, and businesses stolen and forced them from their homes ). Before this was accomplished they went door to door and confiscated their guns; then they later went to homes during the night and forced them to leave. ( Many died.) Strange how throughout history the Democratic Party has been the one to hate minorities. Why do they build their abortion clinics mostly in minority sections of town? They promise entitlements to get votes only and then make people “slaves” to their Marxist system. I remember the bomb drills in school when I was younger- but I also remember, as a young student, Mao and Nikita both saying that they wouldn’t have to fire a shot or send a bomb because America would destroy itself from the inside. Why? We are a selfish and greedy nation where people want their rights but never their responsibilities. Nor do they want to acknowledge their Creator God.
Transitory? There fully aware of exactly what these crippling policies are now doing and trust me it’s exactly what there game plan for the total collapse of our economic system has been from day one. Inflation, recession, how about bread lines and in less than a few short years a full all out DEPRESSION! It’s exactly what this entire administration is shooting for!
If this “Inflation Reduction Act” passes, expect inflation to increase above 10% and last at least two more years.
Don’t forget … The DemocRats don’t turn our news …. they turn out propaganda. It’s only “news” for them when it happens to fit their propaganda. Remember … The Commie DemocRats seek to RULE the Nation, not just GOVERN the Nation. You can kinda think of the Democrats as a group Monarchy blended in with Communism principles.
Biden yesterday said that sentence of Griner in Russia is unacceptable & Griner is being wrongfully detained. Does that mean that it is okay for anyone to bring drugs into the USA in their luggage & that is okay with him & they will not be arrested. Biden sets a bad example with this one.
And you can bet the only people being audited will be conservatives. Be very careful which charities you donate to.
Tammy thanks for your article that says it like it is! We need to take the House back! The Bill is suicide for the USA!
Thank you for that uplifting news. Now that many of us have been trying to keep a somewhat optimistic attitude, it has been completed deflated for the remainder of the next few years anyway. We now lay in wait while our government, a once institute of freedom and promise, is being destroyed by those that have much by robbing those that have supported them all their lives, the middle class and faithful taxpayers.
This latest attempt by the Democrats to break the will of the American people is taxation without representation. Why are they allowed to destroy our country? Where is the pushback from Republicans? We seniors have no hope of survival, if this goes forward. 87000 new IRS operatives? Why not 87000 new border patrol officers? Total BS
What do they care? They get their money… more so by passing laws that hurt everyday Americans. We threw tea into a harbor for less then what they do.
If the 2020 presidential election were not stolen, then 81 million people voted for Biden on his promise to destroy America, and he is doing an excellent job.
They should all burn in hell for this stupidity
Our only hope is this November to take back Congress and vote in some politicians that believe in what is good for the people instead of lining their own pockets. Lord, forgive us for all our sins. We have been too Complacent  in what we allow in the nation you blessed us with. Help us to put you first every day! Amen ????
This bill exactly what you’d expect from a party who hates this country and wants to turn it into a third world Marxist hellhole. Trouble is, there people in this country who are just fine with them doing it who will vote for them.
They are planning on Militarizing the IRS. Why else would the IRS be buying MILLIONS of Rounds of AMMUNITION with Tax Payer Money when they have ZERO business with AMMUNITION?
Why else would they make the IRS BIGGER than the Pentagon, FBI, and Border Patrol combined unless they are creating the New STASI?
ALL evidence points to it.
Far too many “Americans” have the deer-in-the-headlight mentality. If the far left can’t be “woke” up, it’s going to be hard to stop the political cancer that has spread to every state in America. When the majority of people (depending on which pole you read) no longer value human life, and the God that gave it to us, why should they value anything else that has made this nation great? As they say: If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Sounds like screw America act
My fellow Americans, is there anything that this ILLEGITIMATE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION hasn’t done to hurt Americans or to destroy our Republic? I’m getting weary of trying to pass this message to others, especially those that refuse to listen! I’ll just reiterate that this government is hell bent on destroying our Republic and everything that you and I value. Each of US have to make a choice, take a stand for our Republic or learn how to speak Chinese. It’s your decision but, don’t scream bloody murder when these CORRUPT TRAITORS take away all your rights and property!
Whos gonna stop them? They are also working on federalizing our election system! Soon we will have no way to vote their globalist agenda out. I wonder what god envisions when he looks at our world today, when is the messia coming back, soon i hope and pray.
Why are Americans being ILLEGALLY and UNCONSTITUTIONALLY TAXED for the Global Warming LIE when OVER 7 BILLION people are NOT being TAXED for Global Warming LIE?
That’s the Real Question.