The IRS is about to get a big chunk of change, and you’re going to be hearing a lot about it between now and the November election.

Republicans love to tee off on the tax man and some are already cranking up their rhetoric to eleven.

Though the IRS has long been criticized as unable to do basic things like answer taxpayers’ questions and process their returns in a timely way, Republicans are now portraying the agency as rife with thugs poised to terrorize average Americans. In an interview with Fox News, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a longtime tax writer, raised the specter of an IRS “strike force that goes in with AK-15s already loaded, ready to shoot some small businessperson in Iowa.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) speaks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.