We all knew they’d do something sleazy like this right before the midterms. Don’t expect the people thanking the Kid Sniffer for spitting in their face to be anything but supportive of this (D)esperation. 
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Presumably more audits and faster returns. IRS was decimated during covid.
Now not saying we need more IRS in our lives. But it’s the reality that we deal with.
Do republicans want the IRS to function or not? If not, why didn’t they get rid of it during Trump?
They don’t.
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If the fed stuck to its enumerated powers it wouldn’t be big enough to need that level of funding, it could be funded by a luxury tax.
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This bill would see more IRS agents than work for the Pentagon, the State Department and as Border Patrol agents, combined.
The Pentagon has 26,000 Military and Civilian employees.
The State Department has 13,000 workers.
Border Patrol Agents 20,000
Total: 59,000 For all 3 agencies
Proposed IRS Agents: 87,000
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I don’t know how “Republicans” feel with regard to the IRS. But I do know freedom loving people do not agree with a taxing system which is fundamentally evil!
When a system of taxation allows the force of government to directly tax one citizen and require that citizen to pay two dollars and then tax a neighbor directly for one dollar, that is an evil system of taxation
When a system of taxation can be used as a political weapon and used to criminally prosecute a government Administrations’ political opponents, that is an evil system of taxation
When a system of taxation has become so complex that those who can afford high priced lawyers and can also avoid paying taxes, that is an evil system of taxation
When the definition of “taxable income” can be manipulated to exclude the friends and donors of certain politicians, that is an evil system of taxation
When a system of taxation makes citizens spend, over 3.24 billion hours a year preparing and filing tax-returns, that is an evil system of taxation.
When a system of taxation costs $37 billion a year in administrative and compliance costs, that is an evil system of taxation
When a system of taxation invites billions of dollars, being spent on lobbying for privileged tax relief to those who can afford it that, is an evil system of taxation
When a system of taxation tells a minister of church what may and may not be said during a sermon, that is an evil system of taxation
When a system of taxation is so intrusive that a taxpayer must disclose some of their most personal and intimate information and spending habits, that is an evil system of taxation
When a tax system gives people back more money than they paid in, it’s an evil system of taxation!
So, what is a solution? It begins with the following words being added to our Constitution:
“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, sales, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.
NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!
JWK
“In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution”— Jefferson
Hell NO!
Not when it’s function has been weaponized by Democrats to go after political opponents and destroy the middle class.
How do any of these things relate? Why should IRS be smaller than those three departments?
IRS processes tens of millions returns.
They are also there to make sure everyone pays their appropriate share. Do republicans not want to catch tax cheats?
So how does not appropriately funding IRS get us closer to a less evil tax system?
Meaning? The fed should not have a federal tax?
We would love to prosecute tax cheats like Nancy Pelosi, and the Biden Crime Family.
Unfortunately, the IRS has become a weapon of the Democrat Party.
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Didn’t both Comey and McCabe get really intensive audits?
How so?
Funding the collection of revenue is not the problem. As I previously pointed out, the problem is an evil system of taxation. And until Congress is forbidden to lay and collect taxes from profits, gains, sales, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money, American citizens will continue to suffer all the misieries associated with such a tax, some of which I listed HERE
JWK
A national revenue must be obtained; but the system must be such a one, that, while it secures the object of revenue, it shall not be oppressive to our constituents.______James Madison speaking before Congress during our NATIONS FIRST REVENUE RAISING ACT
Yeah, that was a pretty extraordinary coincidence. Remember the GOP dead-enders who insisted Biden’s win was somehow so statistically unlikely as to be suspicious based on . . . . reasons? Well . . .
I see you like pushing conspiracy theories.
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This is a fever dream. Federal Taxes will always be collected.
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And we wouldn’t be an economic and military superpower, either.
So you decide the tradeoff…
Oh, please…
The Fair Share Balanced Buget Amendment does not forbid Congress to lay and collect taxes. Its next Section continues:
“SECTION 2. Congress ought not raise money by borrowing, but when the money arising from imposts duties and excise taxes are insufficient to meet the public exigencies, and Congress has raised money by borrowing during the course of a fiscal year, Congress shall then lay a direct tax at the beginning of the next fiscal year for an amount sufficient to extinguish the preceding fiscal year’s deficit, and apply the revenue so raised to extinguishing said deficit.”
NOTE: Congress is to raise its primary revenue from imposts and duties, [taxes at our water’s edge], and may also lay miscellaneous internal excise taxes on specifically chosen articles of consumption. But if Congress borrows and spends more than is brought in from imposts, duties and miscellaneous excise taxes during the course of a fiscal year, then, and only then, is the direct apportioned tax to be laid in order to balance the budget on an annual basis.
“SECTION 3. When Congress is required to lay a direct tax in accordance with Section 1 of this Article, the Secretary of the United States Treasury shall, in a timely manner, calculate each State’s apportioned share of the total sum being raised by dividing its total population size by the total population of the united states and multiplying that figure by the total being raised by Congress, and then provide the various State Congressional Delegations with a Bill notifying their State’s Executive and Legislature of its share of the total tax being collected and a final date by which said tax shall be paid into the United States Treasury.”
In reference to the above Section see: FIRST DIRECT TAX LAID BY CONGRESS, 1798
NOTE: our founder’s fair share formula to extinguish an annual deficit would be:
States’ population
---------------------------- X SUM TO BE RAISED = STATE’S FAIR SHARE
Total U.S. Population
The above formula, as intended by our founding fathers, is to ensure that each state’s share towards extinguishing an annual deficit is proportionately equal to its representation in Congress, i.e., representation with a proportional financial obligation! And if the tax is laid directly upon the people by Congress, then everybody taxpayer across the United States pays the exact same amount! [/I]
Note also that each State’s number or Representatives, under our Constitution is determined by the rule of apportionment:
State`s Pop.
------------------- X House size (435) = State`s No. of Representatives
U.S. Pop.
“SECTION 4. Each State shall be free to assume and pay its quota of the direct tax into the United States Treasury by a final date set by Congress, but if any State shall refuse or neglect to pay its quota, then Congress shall send forth its officers to assess and levy such State’s proportion against the real property within the State with interest thereon at the rate of ((?)) per cent per annum, and against the individual owners of the taxable property. Provision shall be made for a 15% discount for those States paying their share by ((?))of the fiscal year in which the tax is laid, and a 10% discount for States paying by the final date set by Congress, such discount being to defray the States’ cost of collection.”
NOTE: This section respects the Tenth Amendment and allows each state to raise its share in its own chosen way in a time period set by Congress, but also allows the federal government to enter a state and collect the tax if a state is delinquent in meeting its obligation.
"SECTION 5. This Amendment to the Constitution, when ratified by the required number of States, shall take effect no later than (?) years after the required number of States have ratified it.
