What the f*ck are you talking about? Historical norms on staffing? 87,000 new hires makes them bigger than Google, who are a massive global company, not just a single region. Google are 135,000 employees for the record. The IRS will have 165k employees by time this is all done and dusted.The IRS has been intentionally underfunded by the GOP (because the want their wealthy donors to be able to cheat the rest of us taxpayers) that these new agents will merely be getting the IRS up close to its historical norms.
No one likes audits, but more IRS agents could bring its workforce closer to historical norms
According to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, Congress has actually reduced the IRS budget by about 20% since 2010, once adjusted for inflation.www.fastcompany.com
but, hey, why do a simple google search to answer your own question when you can just repeat bullshit Fox talking points?
If you mean historical norms in tax revenue, then that also is a bullsh*t statement as they've taken in more than $8t in the last two years, which is $2T more than prior years. (Trumps tax cuts really hurting the American people I see)
The government also isn't being honest in the total cost of hiring 87,000 new employees. They don't factor in benefits, T&E, training, equipment, cell phone costs, location strategy (office space), additional HR staff, severance etc so I'd argue that they won't even break even based on the figures I've seen. As with almost every single government budget, they are once again off by miles.
Sorry but you don't have to watch Fox or be a conservative to figure any of this out.
