Headline #1, Government Executive, March 15, 2023, Biden Wants to Grow the Federal Workforce to Its Highest Level Since WWII. These Agencies Would Make the Biggest Gains. | The Treasury Department would see the biggest workforce spike of any major agency under Biden’s blueprint, which is driven primarily by the Internal Revenue Service. The tax agency would see a surge of 13,000 net new employees in fiscal 2024, after growing by 6,000 workers in the current fiscal year. All told, that would bring IRS to nearly 100,000 employees, an increase of 21% over fiscal 2022.
Headline #2, Government Executive, February 2, 2024, The jobs boom is hitting the federal sector, too – Federal agencies added 11,000 jobs in January and hit a 20-year high for non-census years.
Headline #3, Yahoo! Finance, February 28, 2024, Biden Administration Job Growth Numbers Are Subsidized By Record Numbers Of Government Jobs — 25% of New Jobs Are In Government
Two women, Robin Sanders in Illinois, and Debra Shoemaker Ford in Alabama, were incarcerated for unpaid debts. Read their stories from The Marshall Project, Debtors’ Prisons, Then and Now: FAQ: “In the United States, debtors’ prisons were banned under federal law in 1833. A century and a half later, in 1983, the Supreme Court affirmed that incarcerating indigent debtors was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause. Yet, citizens like Sanders and Ford are, to this day, routinely jailed after failing to repay debt. Though de jure debtors’ prisons are a thing of the past, de facto debtors’ imprisonment is not.” This story was from 2015.
Headline #4, Newsweek, May 14, 2024, IRS Warns Thousands of Taxpayers They Could Face Jail Time I quote, “Most often, taxpayers claim tax credits for which they are not eligible, possibly triggering delayed refunds and extra verification. If the verification doesn’t pan out, taxpayers could face steep financial penalties or even up to three years in jail.“
President Ronald Reagan wisely noted, “The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.“
If you are comfortable with debtors’ prisons, empty cupboards, and unemployment, vote Democrat.
If you cherish your God-given natural rights and your freedoms, vote Republican.
John White
Rockwall, Texas
John N. White 