New York Times report blasts Republicans for ‘unfounded conspiracy theories’ about increased IRS enforcement

The New York Times was the latest media organization on Friday to defend the massive expansion of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by dismissing Republicans’ concerns as “unfounded conspiracy theories.”

Reporters Alan Rappeport and Tiffany Hsu documented what they considered the rise of conspiracy theories after Republicans warned that the Inflation Reduction Act would double the workforce of the IRS over the next decade by hiring approximately 87,000 new workers.

Rappeport and Hsu insisted that these efforts are primarily to help the “beleaguered agency” hire new employees to “upgrade outdated technology” and “improve its ability to respond to taxpayers.” They claimed Republicans have latched onto this news, “often distorting facts,” to scare low-income voters into fearing they will be targeted for political purposes.

“But Republicans, who have long accused the I.R.S. of unfairly targeting conservatives, have seized on the law to fan unfounded conspiracy theories about the threat that mom-and-pop shops and middle-class Americans will face from an emboldened tax collector,” they warned.

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The reporters admitted later that IRS enforcement is indeed planning to expand.

“The I.R.S. is beefing up its staff to keep pace with the growth in taxpayers and to replace departing employees. The Biden administration expects that about 50,000 I.R.S. employees will retire within the next decade and that the agency will hire 87,000 new employees, bringing…