'They will come after you': Republicans are spending millions on campaign ads amping up their questionable assertions that Dems' IRS funding boost will translate into an army of tax collectors targeting average Americans
Republicans are hammering the IRS — and the $80 billion Democrats recently pushed through for the agency — as they try to drive turnout in next month’s midterm elections.
The campaign highlights how, though Republicans have lambasted the IRS funding for months, that doesn’t mean they aren’t benefiting from it. Many were quietly pleased with the budget increase, figuring it would give them plenty of fodder for the campaign trail. And Democrats up for reelection this year don’t need to worry too much about the ads, said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who’s been studying the attacks.Lake agrees Democrats are vulnerable to charges they haven’t focused enough on things like inflation, but says the IRS is the wrong way to make that point with most people.
They claim the administration intends to hire an additional 87,000 agents, pointing to a Treasury Department report issued early last year. But the administration subsequently said many of those people would replace tens of thousands of IRS workers who will become eligible for retirement in the next few years.
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