Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. FALLON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in favor of H.R. 23, which would defund the $80 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act or, as I call it, the inflation enhancement act, and thereby defund the hiring of 87,000 new IRS agents, which would, in effect, double the agency.

Nary a one, not one, of my constituents has asked to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, but, in fact, countless have asked if we can hire 87,000 new Border Patrol agents because there is a crisis and a catastrophe on our southern border.

The last thing we want is to double an agency that is already bloated and have them with these 87,000 new agents or, in military parlance, five new divisions to harass, stalk, and otherwise terrorize law- abiding American citizens.

Who is this going to really kick in the teeth? It is not going to be the wealthy or the poor. It is going to be the small business owners and the middle-class, hardworking Americans.

Do you want to start a new Congress and do it well? This is a great bill, and I urge the passing of H.R. 23, the Small Business and Taxpayer Protection Act.

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