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We like to get right into it and what we're going to get into today is 86,852 new IRS

employees. You have probably heard with all this coverage of the so-called Inflation Reduction

Act. We'll talk about that later, but you've heard that Republicans saying that the Inflation

Reduction Act includes provisions to hire 87,000 new IRS,

Internal Revenue Service agents, 87,000. I mean, the number seems too big to believe.

I mean, the IRS has, if you look at the Office of Personnel Management website for all

federal employees, the IRS has 93,654 employees and why would Congress in one bill increase

that number the IRS workforce by something like 92%. It doesn't seem possible. It certainly

doesn't seem wise. So here's the answer. It is not wise, but it is possible. And it's what,

50 Senate Democrats, along with the Vice President Kamala Harris who broke the tie, did when they

passed the Inflation Reduction Act. The bill gives roughly 80 billion dollars to the IRS

between now and 2031, next year. And by the way, I mentioned the name, the Inflation Reduction

Act. It was a ruse. I mean, it was a ruse to convince gullible voters that Democrats are actually

doing something about inflation. I mean, the bill itself is made up of expensive, really,

really expensive, climate measures, lots of subsidies to renewable energy firms, that sort of thing.

hugely expensive climate measures, plus prescription drug provisions, tax increases, and

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