been American state in it ed writes this quote, disabling the non-military side of America's

state is not a recent Republican priority, but its record is decidedly mixed on one day,

on the one hand, day-to-day U.S. administration has become ever more difficult. The restrictions

placed on federal agencies, including the IRS, has grown more onerous over the years.

People's interface with the U.S. government can be a painful experience. The Democratic

habit of micro-regulation, which acts like a full employment charter for lawyers, also is added

to DC's slow movingness. That in turn makes voters more receptive to anti-government rhetoric.

Financing the U.S. government is about to get much costlier. Biden's new law, the inflation

reduction act will go some way toward leveling the playing field between underpaid IRS agents

and overpaid corporate lawyers. But if Republicans regain control of Congress in November,

it could prove a short-term victory. They can simply block the IRS budget.

The societal cost of this latest Diff's Information Campaign is hard to count.

Millions of Americans now think the U.S. government is armed, dangerous, and how to get them.

It is a wapper of a lie. The lies have a way of taking root. And they have ed, as you point out

in the piece, from senior members of the United States Senate Chuck Grassley of Iowa going on

television and saying armed IRS agents with AR-15s are going to kick in the doors of

small business owners. It's a conspiracy theory that has taken hold at the highest reaches of the

party. It is. And of course, I mean, we've seen it before. This isn't new. Think of death panels

and Obama care. Think of the propaganda around the estate tax rebranding it as a tax on

family owned farms in Iowa, etc. But it's getting considerably worse. To have mainstream Republicans

talking not just of abolishing the IRS and the FBI for that matter. But depicting their agents,

particularly depicting these government employees as essentially shock troops for globalists

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