{"id":583663,"date":"2021-07-06T09:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583663"},"modified":"2021-07-06T09:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T13:20:55","slug":"smashmouth-with-small-businesses-tax-reform-expert-blasts-bidens-call-for-87k-more-irs-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smashmouth-with-small-businesses-tax-reform-expert-blasts-bidens-call-for-87k-more-irs-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smashmouth With Small Businesses\u2019: Tax Reform Expert Blasts Biden\u2019s Call For 87K More IRS Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsmashmouth-with-small-businesses-tax-reform-expert-blasts-bidens-call-for-87k-more-irs-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-945361442.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of President Biden\u2019s proposal to double the size of the Internal Revenue Service and add 87,000 employees, Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, blasted that small businesses would be crushed by Biden\u2019s plans, snapping that Biden was playing \u201csmashmouth with small businesses,\u201d adding that after small businesses were crushed by the lockdowns from COVID, \u201cthey\u2019re going to go back and finish them off with IRS harassment.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/vjg9ht-the-real-story-oan-adding-to-the-irs-with-grover-norquist.html\">Speaking on OAN<\/a>, Norquist stated, \u201cThe IRS has said they\u2019re going to increase going after small businesses 50%. Biden gives speeches about how they\u2019re going to go after big corporations and rich people. We know that\u2019s not true. Large corporations are already audited regularly; rich people get audited. Where they\u2019re planning to go, and where the IRS is telling us ahead of time, is to go after smaller businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of them deal in cash; restaurants, nail salons, beauty salons, barber shops, food trucks; all of your neighborhood grocery stores. This is where the IRS is going to go after and harass small businesses,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cEven an audit can bankrupt a small business because of the time it takes away from actual work getting done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Host Natalie Harp noted the timing of Biden\u2019s proposal in the wake of myriads of small business closing because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Norquist replied, \u201cSadly, this shouldn\u2019t surprise you; it\u2019s not a bug; it\u2019s a feature. They do not like small businesses; they do not like independent businessmen and women; they do not like independent contractors or gig workers or people who have a side hustle or second job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne: They\u2019re tough to unionize, and you saw the Democratic Party in California passed a law making being an independent contractor, a free-lancer, illegal,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cThe people of California put a measure on the ballot and repealed most of that law, but on the same day that California said no, don\u2019t harass independent contractors, Biden won the election in California. And Biden said I don\u2019t care what the people in California think. He signed off on organized labor, big labor bosses\u2019 demand that you outlaw self-employed independent contractors and make everybody have a boss and be employed and they could be unionized and get union dues, which go back to the Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norquist went on to slam \u201cthis effort to play smashmouth with small businesses,\u201d stating that the COVID-19 lockdowns \u201cdestroy[ed] many restaurants in the country, many small businesses in the country.\u201d Those businesses will now be \u201cfinish[ed] off with IRS harassment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cAnd we\u2019ve seen over the years when Biden was vice-president, the IRS went after Tea Party organizations, refused to allow them to incorporate as non-profits. Only one conservative group in three years got the approval of being a 501c3 so you could fundraise and do all the things that you\u2019d want as a non-profit political organization. 97% of the money that the IRS union gives goes to Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/20\/irs-funding-boost-489830\">Politico<\/a> reported on May 20, \u201cPresident Joe Biden is proposing to double the size of the IRS, by hiring nearly 87,000 new workers over the next decade, as part of a sweeping plan to chase down tax cheats.&nbsp;The hiring spree, part of a bid to increase IRS funding by $80 billion, would be phased in to give the department time to adjust,&nbsp;the Treasury Department said in a report Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/system\/files\/136\/The-American-Families-Plan-Tax-Compliance-Agenda.pdf\">report<\/a>, Biden\u2019 Treasury Department bemoaned the decrease in audited returns, writing, \u201cThe magnitude of the U.S. tax gap is the byproduct of many factors, including long-term IRS resource constraints. Since the early 2000s, the IRS budget as a share of GDP has been trending downward. \u2026 Today, the IRS has fewer auditors than at any time since World War II.As experienced employees have retired, the IRS has been unable to replace departing workers with new revenue officers and with agents of comparable training and skills necessary to pursue the most complicated noncompliance cases. Consequently, the share of audited returns has declined by nearly 45% between 2010\u20132018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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