Under the Biden Administration, the federal government is set to hire 87,000 new IRS agents. The Inflation Reduction Act is creating 80 billion in funding for the IRS with 45 billion going to "enforcement". The legislation doesn't define the exact actions and meaning behind enforcement. Many states in the U.S. do not have a police officer stationed at every school. The Upstate South Carolina area does have officers, known as SRO's in every public school (to the best of my knowledge). A recent study done on Virginia Schools said it would cost about 40 million to put an SRO in every school across that state. If you used that as a baseline average (obviously some states would be more and some less) that works out to be a little over two billion dollars nationwide. Even if that number was low and it ended up costs 4 or 5 times that amount, it would still a considerably lower cost than the 80 billion going to the IRS under the new legislation. That begs the question shouldn't our federal government be prioritizing the costs of school safety as opposed to the associated costs of hiring 87,000 new IRS agent? Let us know, below.
