I wonder what “high-risk” is? Member of the SWAT team kicking in the door of a billionaire’s bunker?
intercst
A “JC” sending a gang of knuckle dragging goobers to your house to terrorize you and your family? That seems to be the thing now, as several judges, prosecutors, and polling place workers, have discovered.
Steve
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From three years ago…
There are 458 ‘Special Office of Inspector General Agents’ within Health and Human Services (HHS) armed with sophisticated weaponry and trained by military special forces contractors. Why?
The special agents at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are equipped with machine guns and AR-15s. Is an alien invasion imminent?
Then, there’s the museum and zoo-forces — even the Smithsonian Institution employed up to 620-armed officers. Guarding pandas at the national zoo is expensive…
There are more non-DOD federal employees with firearms (200,000+) than there are U.S. Marines (186,000)… * 76 administrative agencies spent $110.6 million on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2015 and 2019. These agencies include the Internal Revenue Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Social Security Administration, and many others…
In 1996, Veterans Affairs did not employ a police force. Since 2010, the VA spent $25.5 million on guns, 11 million rounds of ammunition, and other military-style equipment. Today, the VA has 4,547 law enforcement officers armed with weapons including semi-automatic “long-guns” (i.e., AR-15-style).
DB2
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After J6, doesn’t this sound reasonable to you?
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No amount of “hazard pay” would compensate for putting your life in danger as a tax auditor. They should be providing security for those people, like they do for the prosecuters and judges on the many Trump court cases.
intercst
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That makes sense to me. Wouldn’t you want the Veterans Affairs Dept armed at least as well as it’s Red State clients who might decide to “shoot it up” in a rage?
intercst
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Geez Bob why do you think? Really?
Andy
Who remembers when Game wardens didn’t have to pack guns either and used to work for the fish and game confiscating illegal game without a gun.
Andy
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Now that we’ve got all of the wild speculating out of the way, let’s get more real.
Frankly, it’s probably not referring to any physical risks. It’s the tax return that is at high risk of having some kind of understatement of taxes owed.
That salary is about what it takes to get the people with the necessary skills out of private practice (where they have been carefully practicing their plausible deniability while preparing returns) and on to the other side of the fence.
—Peter
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More likely, potential to cause reputational damage to the agency and public trust.
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As extreme ideologues insist carrying guns must not be infringed, their solution to nuts with guns is for everyone else to be armed too. So, the next time you think about everyone needing an armed guard, you can thank the extreme “freeedom” people.
Steve
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Kill them ASAP. After all, they have publicly stated they wll shoot to kill. So, self-defense if they get killed first.