The President of the United States 🇺🇸 intends to unleash the Internal Revenue Service (also known by the terrifying acronym as the IRS) upon donors to the Democratic Party & other political progressive allies.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s administration was planning to install “allies” at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to target left-leaning groups.
Citing unnamed sources “familiar with the matter,” the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration has been preparing “sweeping changes” to the IRS which “would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily.”
“A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors,” the Journal said, with sources claiming that the administration intended to “install allies” of the president in the agency’s criminal investigation division.
— Via Mediate
Using the IRS to target political enemies is a maneuver used by authoritarian regimes, not democratic republics.
If Trump is openly weaponizing the tax authority against donors of a rival political party, what would stop him from using the same powers against people who criticize him‽
Such a move would stifle the First Amendment and threaten the free speech of every individual in the United States 🇺🇸.
Hopefully, Congress will present a united front against this obvious abuse of power. Americans should not be intimidated by the tax authority for the audacity of speaking out against corrupt politicians.
As V for Vendetta best summed it up:
Discovered Via: @keithboykin on Threads
