LETTER: How about some facts on the IRS expansion
In response to Verne Stewart’s letter “Knock, knock”:
Fact: The IRS isn’t going to send 87,000 agents to anybody’s door. Fact: The hiring will take place over a period of 10 years. Fact: Over the next 10 years, 50,000 IRS employees are going to retire. Fact: The net increase will be around 27,000 employees, after decades of starving the IRS budget.
Fact: Only about 2,000 IRS agents are armed, and they are in the criminal investigation division. Would anyone have gone after Al Capone, who was convicted of tax evasion, without a gun?
The only thing that is going on is the GOP’s persistent false claims, some of which are comical.
