'Going After People That The Government Doesn't Like': Ron DeSantis Issues Warning About New IRS Agents

 

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While presenting infrastructure funding to Lucie County, Florida, on Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) slammed President Biden's economic and energy policies and the hiring of tens of thousands of new IRS agents. Do watch here:

Talking about the IRS agents DeSantis said:

They also authorized 87,000 new IRS agents, and those IRS agents are going to be mobilized to go after people that the government doesn't like. This is not something where they're only going to be going after billionaires. In fact, billionaires all have accountants and lawyers. They're going to be going after people who are not going to be able to defend themselves against these audits.

And you know, they actually proposed an amendment when this was being debated in the US senate saying this should not be any of these agents' audits under 400,000 a year and the democrats voted that down. They did not want to protect Americans earning less than $400,000, so your question is why would they not have wanted to do that they want this to be something that targets sole proprietors, handymen, restaurant owners, and Uber drivers.

So it's going to be those folks that are going to be least able to withstand an audit that they're going to go after because that's really the low-hanging fruit. If you go after that, you're going to be able to probably scrounge a lot of stuff, so that's not a good thing for an economy to be unleashing the IRS.

I don't have an account or you don't have lawyers, so I thought it was really really reprehensible that they'd be mobilizing 87,000 IRS agents and I think every member of Congress that voted for that bill should be required to be audited every year by the IRS, DeSantis added in his press conference in Lucie County.