POLL: Voters Strongly Support Effort by New Congress to Stop the Hiring of 87,000 New IRS Agents

(Austin, TX—January 19, 2023) Convention of States Action, in partnership with The Trafalgar Group—one of America’s most accurate pollsters in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2021—is releasing the results of a new national survey. Results were from surveys conducted January 9th through January 12th of over 1,000 likely general election voters.

“During the Obama era, we battled Lois Lerner’s IRS over their illegal targeting of Obama’s political enemies. After an incredibly hard-fought court battle, we won and the IRS was forced to pay damages. During that battle we had the benefit of help from dozens of people, and donations from many thousands to fuel our effort–but 99% percent of the American people do not have that benefit. Given recent reports that the IRS is targeting low-income Americans–among the most vulnerable in our society–disproportionately, we know almost exactly how the Biden IRS plans to deploy 87,000 new agents,” said Mark Meckler, President of Convention of States. “This data shows the public–regardless of party–is overwhelmingly supportive of the measure forwarded by the House of Representatives to get this reversed.”

For complete details on the poll, including graphics, please visit:

https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/news/nat-issues-irs-agents/

KEY INSIGHT: 60 Percent of American Voters Want Congress to Reverse Hiring of 87,000 New IRS Agents:

• 60.1 percent of voters want the U.S. House of Representatives to take action to reverse the hiring of the 87,000 new IRS agents.

• 28 percent of voters do not want the U.S. House of Representatives to take action to reverse the hiring of the 87,000 new IRS agents.

• 11.9 percent are not sure.

KEY INSIGHT: Majorities of Independents and Republicans Want Congress to Stop the Hiring of 87,000 New IRS Agents, Majority of Democrats Do Not Want Congress to Act:

• 61.4 percent of Independent voters want the U.S. House of Representatives to take action to reverse the hiring of the 87,000 new IRS agents. 30.4 percent want Congress to not take action, and 8.2 percent are not sure.

• 84.4 percent of Republican voters want the U.S. House of Representatives to take action to reverse the hiring of the 87,000 new IRS agents. 8.2 percent want Congress to not take action, and 7.4 percent are not sure.
• 26 percent of Democratic voters want the U.S. House of Representatives to take action to reverse the hiring of the 87,000 new IRS agents. 51.5 percent want Congress to not take action, and 22.5 percent are not sure.