And I am about to prove it by contrasting their recent spending Bill.
In recently implemented Inflation Reduction Act (which will likely spur more inflation not reduce it… but I digress)… Congress approved $80,000,000,000 for the IRS. That’s 80 Billion… with a B. Of that $80B, more than half, an estimated $46,000,000,000, 46 Billion is tagged for hiring more enforcement agents. I couldn’t even use my iPhone’s calculator for this bc it won’t handle numbers in the billions.
That works out to an average of $528,735.63 per new agent (46B /87,000).
A half Mill per agent. Certainly that won’t be their salary, most of that gets siphoned off the top, filtered through the administrative pockets and forms government slush funds.
But if our federal government actually cared about our school children they would have spent $46B on security and personnel. Because clearly we have $46B to spend on new gov employees.
Let’s see what that would look like. The national average salary for an officer is $60,000. $46B would hire 766,666 school resource officers. (46B / $60,000). Count varies from year to year, but there are roughly 100,000 public elementary and secondary schools in the US. That works out to nearly 8 resource officers per school building (not per district). And oh yeah, there’s still another $34,000,000,000 for training and infrastructure left if all of the IRS new budget was allocated to school security.
The next time a politician cries about we must keep our kids safe, ask them why they spent Billions on tax enforcement rather than school security.
In recently implemented Inflation Reduction Act (which will likely spur more inflation not reduce it… but I digress)… Congress approved $80,000,000,000 for the IRS. That’s 80 Billion… with a B. Of that $80B, more than half, an estimated $46,000,000,000, 46 Billion is tagged for hiring more enforcement agents. I couldn’t even use my iPhone’s calculator for this bc it won’t handle numbers in the billions.
That works out to an average of $528,735.63 per new agent (46B /87,000).
A half Mill per agent. Certainly that won’t be their salary, most of that gets siphoned off the top, filtered through the administrative pockets and forms government slush funds.
But if our federal government actually cared about our school children they would have spent $46B on security and personnel. Because clearly we have $46B to spend on new gov employees.
Let’s see what that would look like. The national average salary for an officer is $60,000. $46B would hire 766,666 school resource officers. (46B / $60,000). Count varies from year to year, but there are roughly 100,000 public elementary and secondary schools in the US. That works out to nearly 8 resource officers per school building (not per district). And oh yeah, there’s still another $34,000,000,000 for training and infrastructure left if all of the IRS new budget was allocated to school security.
The next time a politician cries about we must keep our kids safe, ask them why they spent Billions on tax enforcement rather than school security.
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