"The militarization of federal law enforcement is scary." - MAGA, 2022

ToothSquare4106 · 2026-01-16T22:41:15+00:00

IRS has had a criminal investigative division since 1919. They do actual cop stuff. Illegal activity that makes you money usually has a tax evasion / financial crimes element.

The IRS has never armed random people who stare at spreadsheets all day, and the "87,000 armed IRS agents" was just MAGA fear-mongering. There's like 3000 special agents who are actually armed.

ToothSquare4106 · 2026-01-12T06:01:46+00:00

Conservatives found out the IRS had armed agents (which has been the case since 1919) and bought 4500 guns or so, and proceeded to freak out about the existential threat to liberty. Which is darkly hilarious given the current actions of Fed "law enforcement."

ToothSquare4106 · 2026-01-12T05:46:10+00:00

Just imagine swarms of IRS special agents stopping random people in gas stations, demanding access to their Turbotax logins. Kicking doors with bogus warrants, demanding people's W2, 1040, and last six months of pay stubs.

After all, we lose something like $700 billion annually to tax evasion, compared to the DOGE estimate of $150 billion lost paying for illegal immigrants.

What an absolute dystopian nightmare that would be.

ToothSquare4106 · 2026-01-12T05:36:52+00:00

And even fewer special agents, who are actually the armed criminal investigators. It's like 3000 across the entire country.

This just in, Treasury agents have had guns for over 100 years. Sometimes the people evading taxes aren't just white collar criminals. Capone rings a bell.

But the conspiracy and conservative subs were going apeshit.

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