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* Sen. Ted Cruz for PREZ? O-o
Sen. Ted Cruz has repeatedly gotten basic facts about the Internal
Revenue Service wrong when delivering one of his favorite applause
lines, calling for its abolition.
He did it — again —
over the weekend in New Hampshire, when he said:
That line gets applause from conservatives who don’t like either the
IRS or don’t like those living in the U.S. illegally. But the fact is
that the IRS has nowhere close to 110,000 total employees — even
counting lowly clerks. And it hasn’t for nearly 20 years.
According to the
IRS’s most recent budget request,
which the administration submitted in February, Congress has enacted
budget authority for only 82,203 total employees in the current fiscal
year, which runs through Sept. 30. That’s down from 84,761 total workers
last fiscal year (as measured by the usual “full-time equivalent,” or
FTE, standard).
And of those 82,000, only about one in four can properly be called “agents,” or even “revenue officers.”
Cruz has made this factually challenged line part of his standard stump speech as he explores
running for president. We found he has been using it since at least
last July.
During a star turn at the annual Conservative Political Action
Conference gathering on Feb. 26 he got so amped up that he inflated the
number to 125,000 agents. The line brought down the house.
But at the International Association of Fire Fighters
on March 10 the line was greeted by silence. (Cruz was by then back to his 110,000 figure — see video starting at 7:50)
The
fact is, however, the last time the IRS had 110,000 workers was nearly
20 years ago, in the Clinton administration. On Sept. 30, 1995 — at the
end of fiscal year 1995 — the IRS had just over 114,000 total employees.
It dropped to 102,000 a year later, and has been below 100,000 ever
since,
according to employment figures from the IRS’s annual Data Books and its most recent budget submission.
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Furthermore, not all IRS employees can properly be called “agents.”
We went over this in 2010 when
other Republicans were also peddling false information about the IRS.
At the time, they were claiming that 16,500 new “agents” would be needed
to enforce the Affordable Care Act. In one extreme instance then-Rep.
Ron Paul of Texas claimed all 16,500 “agents” would be “armed.”
As we said back then, there’s a huge difference between an
IRS revenue agent — who calls on taxpayers and conducts face-to-face audits — and the workers who make up the bulk of IRS employees.
What
we said then — and it still holds true — is that IRS workers include
clerks, accountants, computer programmers, telephone call center workers
and other support staff.
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