There are over 600 billionaires in the United States. Why does the IRS need an entire army of 87,000 agents to deal with just over 600 people? Why do they need 87,000 new agents in enforcement to deal with these 600-plus people? Why are these enforcement agents armed? Do they anticipate a firefight against these billionaires? //

According to Reason, the IRS attacked the poorest of Americans significantly more than they did anyone else:

https://reason.com/2023/01/06/in-2022-the-irs-went-after-the-very-poorest-taxpayers/

On Wednesday, Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released data provided to it by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on audits performed by the agency in fiscal year 2022. Despite the infusion of new funding earmarked for the IRS via last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, the agency continued historic trends of hassling primarily low-income taxpayers, with relatively few millionaires and billionaires getting caught up in the audit sweep.

“The taxpayer class with unbelievably high audit rates—five and a half times virtually everyone else—were low-income wage-earners taking the earned income tax credit,” reported TRAC, noting that the poorest taxpayers are “easy marks in an era when IRS increasingly relies upon correspondence audits yet doesn’t have the resources to assist taxpayers or answer their questions.”