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Well, it's tax season, or as Donald Trump calls it, would you get off my back already?

And the Biden administration has been making a big effort to make tax season a bit less painful.

The Inflation Reduction Act, which the president signed last August, includes $80 billion in new funding for the IRS to hire new employees and upgrade its technology and its working.

The IRS is doing much better at processing our returns and answering our questions about how to file correctly.

Better enforcement of tax laws means more money for all the many, many things the government does, social security, Medicare, infrastructure, not to mention scraping off the feces smeared on the capital walls by the proud boys.

Clearly, the new funding is long overdue and in addition to paying for immensely popular programs, it will help reduce the deficit.

So everybody's got to be happy about this. Everybody, right? Am I right?

Democrats want to spend $80 billion to hire 87,000 more armed IRS agents to terrorize Americans.

They want to add 87,000 IRS agents that can use deadly force to go after American families.

They want to turn the IRS into the Gestapo.

They are arming up the IRS like they're preparing to take Fallujah.

A little like James Bond, but instead of hunting down evil maniacs, these agents hunt down and kill middle class taxpayers that don't pay enough.

What on earth are these people talking about?

If you forget to carry the one while you're calculating your return, will the IRS actually come to your home, break down the door and gun down your entire family?

In a word no, in six words, of course not, you Republican idiots.

So let's talk about what the IRS money is really going for and another installment of Long Story Short.

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