Byron York’s Daily Memo: Biden promises: We won’t use beefed-up IRS against you

Republicans and conservatives have loudly protested the Democratic plan to expand the IRS vastly, and especially its enforcement arm, with an infusion of $80 billion included in the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act. The $80 billion is, by many accounts, far more than the IRS needs, and Republicans are suspicious about how it will be spent. Last year, the Treasury Department said the money would be used to hire 86,852 new IRS employees over the next 10 years, the largest group of them assigned to auditing Americans’ tax returns.

So the GOP reaction was quick. Eighty-seven thousand new IRS agents! They’re coming for you! Now, Biden administration officials are pushing back, although it is not clear whether they will allay any fears.

The administration and Democrats in Congress maintain that increased IRS enforcement will only target “wealthy tax cheats.” That’s the phrase they like to use “wealthy tax cheats.” Sometimes they define “wealthy” as those making more than $400,000 a year, a group that runs from reasonably successful doctors, on the lower end of the scale, all the way up to Jeff Bezos. Sometimes Democrats say they’re really targeting “millionaires and billionaires,” a phrase made famous by the millionaire Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

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Well, I’m not worried. No sir-ee. Not one bit.