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[Irish_Dem]

1. Tax collectors and accountants will guard the border?

[tanyev]

7. What the......

[Irish_Dem]

10. No offense to accountants but they don't seem cut out to be border guards.

[Jack Valentino]

32. Nor is that what they hired on to do....

Never fear. Maybe the border guards will be shifted to the IRS....

[Irish_Dem]

37. Right, pay your damn taxes or I bring out the handcuffs and gun.

[LiberalArkie]

11. Thinking about it, the immigrants would probably be treated better than the normal goons who like

to imprison young girls and boys. And then disappear them

[Irish_Dem]

15. IRS agents are no picnic but I'd take them any day over Trump's goon squad.

[Irish_Dem]

38. Right, hard to see an IRS agent kidnapping babies and toddlers.

Might bore them to death going over spread sheets.

[live love laugh]

28. Yeah so they can't scrutinize Trump's taxes.

[Irish_Dem]

39. Can't go after all the rich people who cheat on their taxes.

[Lovie777]

2. his army..........

[sinkingfeeling]

3. America, your mentally ill uncle needs to be confined. Amendment 25, anyone?

[Norrrm]

6. Vance/Vantz is grinning with glee.

[bdamomma]

33. He is

a SF.

[Scrivener7]

4. What the fuck?

[Ocelot II]

5. IRS agents? Accountants?

[Irish_Dem]

13. Hopefully their CPA exams covered weapon training and how to detain prisoners.

[Ocelot II]

14. They'll corner suspected undocumented immigrants and threaten to audit them.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Maybe deportation won't look so bad then.

[haele]

24. Don't laugh, there is a requirement for specialty IRS agents who are armed.

I knew one back in the 80's. Extremely polite guy.
They typically deal with audits and other interactions for celebrity/wealthy crazies, Mobsters and felons.

[spooky3]

30. It's true, but that vast majority of IRS employees do not carry arms (as part of the job).

Most are taxpayer service representatives, auditors, and support staff.

[Irish_Dem]

40. Maybe those are the ones he is sending to the border, the IRS agents with guns.

[spooky3]

41. But the article says 90K and there aren't nearly that number of armed special agents.

TSF has no idea what IRS employees do.

(Former IRS auditor here)

[Irish_Dem]

46. He has no idea what anyone is the entire federal govt does.

[spooky3]

47. True! Nt

[Luz]

8. Sure, 55yo Susan from Boise will be thrilled. WTF!

[LeftInTX]

9. What???

[tulipsandroses]

12. I've never worked for the Govt, but every employment contract I've signed, has a specific job description

I am assuming it would be the same here. How does he plan to go around that. Does their job description say they can float to be border security? Can they float to the VA too to be nurses or doctors?

[tanyev]

17. "Halt! I have a calculator!"

[CanonRay]

19. First of, these "agents" don't exist except in the fevered minds of his followers

2nd, you can't send untrained, unarmed people to make arrests. He theoretically could send actual IRS 1811 agents to the border, but there just aren't that many of them. More Trump bullshit.

[Igel]

22. But that means you read the entirely of the excerpt.

The whole "“They hired, or tried to hire, 88,000 workers to go after you and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them, or maybe we’ll move them to the border" thing.

He's pretty clearly--esp. for him--referring to the "new agents" that were presumably just hired. Meaning if there were none, done. If there were 3, then 3 will be fired. But even then he's hedging with that "tried to hire" phrase.

[CanonRay]

25. IRS in total has about 87,000 employees

I sincerely doubt they tried to double their staffing. I repeat; more Trump bullshit.

[bdamomma]

31. of course

it is. We all just need to be not distracted by his BS.

[spooky3]

48. Most of those hired were taxpayer service reps (the ones who answer

When people call in with tax questions), tech employees, and support staff.

[phylny]

20. A friend's son got out of a Marine Corps

and worked as a border patrol agent for a year. He was utterly traumatized. Has PTSD, not from the military, but from being a border patrol agent. It’s not easy work.

[dutch777]

21. Yeah, being really serious on balancing the budget and reducing the debt. So sense letting IRS do its job.

[spanone]

23. He's mad. Crazy as hell. Insane in the membrane. Fucking bonkers.

Yet....

[C_U_L8R]

26. To do what? Count jumping beans?

[RainCaster]

27. What an ignorant asshole

What else can I say?

[bdamomma]

29. oh

he can just STFU. What an idiot he is.

[surfered]

34. Why? To audit asylum seekers' taxes. He's an idiot.

[dobleremolque]

35. WTAF??

"Halt, or I'll audit!"

[Meowmee]

43. 😹

[Initech]

36. This is what happens when you let Fox News do your thinking for you.

[Meowmee]

42. Do you mean ice not irs?

[LiberalArkie]

44. Biden hired a load of people to go after the tax cheats

[Meowmee]

45. oh, I did not hear anything about it, lol.