By Jeff Crouere ——Bio and Archives--January 21, 2024

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Last month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report, astute analysts noticed that the U.S. government was the second largest growth area for employment. In November 2023, the federal government hired an astonishing 49,000 new workers.

In contrast, private employers experienced 45,510 job losses. Through November 2023, the overall number of job losses totaled 686,000, the highest since the pandemic year of 2020. It is no surprise that Bidenomics is poison for the American economy. With high interest rates, nagging inflation, multiple wars raging and record debt, private companies are reluctant to expand. However, one entity that always expands is the federal government.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was a core driver of this expansion of government jobs. Despite boasting a workforce of 90,000 employees, the IRS announced it would seek to hire an additional 20,000 workers by the end of the 2024 fiscal year. Traci DiMartini, the head of human resources for the world’s largest tax collection agency, pledged to “use every tool that is available to us” to accomplish that goal.

The growth of the IRS was guaranteed by the passage of the monstrous “Inflation Reduction Act” in 2022. It budgeted an additional $80 billion for the agency over the following ten years. This expansion ensured that the feared agency would achieve even more power and control over the lives of the American people.

Among the “tools” being considered to entice Americans to work for the IRS include telecommuting options, student loan repayment options, and further financial enticements to bring more accountants under the government umbrella. This is a vicious cycle that forces American taxpayers to........

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