So there’s this little back-and-forth between various IRS employees:
A deep state Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official has been attacking President Donald Trump’s agenda after one of her colleagues was ousted for allegedly targeting conservatives.
IRS Appeals Officer Niki Wilkinson commented on a LinkedIn post and claimed Republicans were “fear mongering” when it came to the work of the IRS official whom the Daily Caller on Wednesday identified as Holly Paz.
“Wilkinson made the remarks in a comment on conservative activist Chuck Flint’s post about Holly Paz, a former IRS official who served as a deputy to Lois Lerner. Lerner was head of the IRS division responsible for the Tea Party targeting scandal during the Obama administration,” the report said.
Flint is the president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability. He was quoted in his post as saying, “Paz’s Biden-era pass-through unit is now bludgeoning conservative businesses with fines and must be disbanded. Commissioner Long is flexing his muscles on the IRS Deep State and sending a signal to rogue bureaucrats by placing Paz on leave.”
In response, Wilkinson said, “Such a farce! Interesting how Senators outside the IRS are fear mongering and falsely describing the work. They have no idea what Examiners found in those audits, which in fact exposed fraud or noncompliance in the passthrough area as for years the IRS didn’t effectively audit them — there was a history of ‘no changes’ because Examiners didn’t have the skill or the time to do the work. And Paz was not diving charge of this unit, but rather it was one of many under her umbrella as the LB&I Comm’r.”
Yeah, whatever. As there are all these claims and counter-claims refuting each other, it’s impossible to divine the truth from the smoke.
I have a modest (Alexandrine) suggestion for a solution: close down the fucking IRS altogether and fire all IRS employees, to be replaced at some later stage by a minuscule group of newcomers (previous employment at the IRS being an immediate disqualifier).
I don’t actually care what replaces it — 5% national sales tax, [your suggestion here] — but just get rid of these meddling, intrusive bureaucrats who seem to think they own your income when in fact it’s your money and not theirs to control.
Burn down the whole village, not to save it but to save us.
User fees.
Use it, pay for it.
You know, like in real life.
Everything else, percentages, rates, ratios, etc., is theft.
Every rule or regulation in place on taxes was put into place at the behest of some special interest group. As you try to remove one brick from that wall, other special interest groups will balk because they know that their special brick will be next.
You’re right, time to nuke the IRS and start over.
I Googled “Holly Paz.” My God, what an ugly bitch. Makes Chelsea Clinton look like Sydney Sweeney. These broads go into gubmint work because that’s the only way anyone will ever do what they say.
“I say we take off and nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure ” Include about 6 dozen other Fed agencies in the blast radius.
I’m trying to find fault with your solution, but am unable to do so.
Congrats on your Instalanche.
Replace the 16th Amendment and the Infernal Revenue Code with a 5% National Sales Tax.