These are my boys when it comes to HealthCare
Ron Paul and others should be called out for making this false claim because if one looks at the Delegation of Authorities (you can find them for public inspection at your local IRS, in the IRS District Office Reading Room or by FOIA request) the only authority in IRS to carry a weapon is with the CID division. Unless you are formally under criminal investigation (you'll know because they come out, flash the CID badge, formally read you your rights and inform you that you are officially under criminal investigation and them folks is packing), all other IRS personal that you come in contact with under non-criminal conditions (audits, inquiry and other agency actions) are unarmed and that's the vast majority of IRS personal. In fact the vast majority of gov't agency officals we typically come in contact with day in, day out are unarmed gov't employees. If you ever want to know if a gov't official is armed, ask them to provide authority to show that in their capacity and official duty, they have the power to arrest someone. If they lack that authority, they ain't packing and thus the reverse is also true.
Ron was wrong to engage in such red herrings as most of the increase in IRS personal will be along the lines of adminstration as the new healthcare plan impacts the agency's mission in the form of taxation requirements. Yes, if the new healthcare plan has a tax component, it's only common sense that the Treasury Department would add folks in order to meet those legal requirements and function. There might be a few additions to the CID ranks as a result but at this time I have no reason to believe that all 16k additions will be CID agents.
BTW Ron is not the only one to use red herrings and straw men in political discourse as in fact all of Washington does this. I do hold Ron to a higher standard and thus should know better. Shame on him and he deserves being called out! There are many, many good reasons to oppose or question this recent healthcare plan and too resort to exaggerations like this is not the answer. I'll go toe to toe with anyone who advocates even the power of gov't to license doctors much less command and control of the entire industry and for those under any illusion that our medical industry today is some true free market utopia devoid of State intervention or regulation thus to cause of the problem, you might go back and learn about the
1910' Flexner Report just as a starting point! Wonder why "DR." Ron Paul isn't doing this?
And while we're at it, why did the industry and gov't kill the old
lodge practice of healthcare? Did you notice that as the effects of the Flexner Report came into play, lodge practice went away? Hmmm!
And also while talking about Delegations of Authorities, all agencies of gov't have this because it's required by law in the
Adminstrative Procedures Act codified in Title 5 of the US Code and 5 CFR. There is a strict procedure that agencies must follow in order to be authorized and any misstep in the process literally invalidates the actions of the agency in that realm. But you have to call them on it and you'd be surprised how often they do not comply with all aspects of required law but be forewarned, they do not like it at all when you do called them out.
jmo