16,500 More IRS Agents Needed to Enforce Obamacare

Meredith Jessup | March 18, 2010 5:27 PM

This, according to Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas.

In a press release out today, Rep. Brady reports that a new analysis by Republican staffers on the Joint Economic and the House Ways & Means Committees estimates

the IRS will have to hire an additional 16,500 workers to "collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses in the 'reconciliation' bill." In addition, he adds:

Scores of new federal mandates and fifteen different tax increases totaling $400 billion are imposed under the Democratic House bill. In addition to more complicated tax returns, families and small businesses will be forced to reveal further tax information to the IRS, provide proof of ‘government approved’ health care and submit detailed sales information to comply with new excise taxes.

Isn't it comforting to know that despite the fact we'll likely have a massive shortage of doctors in America once this thing passes, we'll have an abundance of tax-collecting IRS agents?