[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight how the Democrats’ plan to expand the IRS would reduce economic freedom.]

The Inflation Reduction Act being considered by Congress would vastly expand the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS currently has 82,000 employees, and the legislation would boost the number by roughly 87,000, according to a related Treasury estimate.

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Eat the rich this Tax Day? Nah. That’s lazy leftist rhetoric