Posted on 04/11/2025 5:12:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I think that, by now, it’s pretty clear that the Trump administration has a set of priorities that focus on illegal immigration, international trade, and removing absolutely anything that falls under the category of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Everyone knows this. It’s obvious.
Which is why it’s hilarious to me that the acting head of the IRS quit because of an agreement to share data with immigration officials.
Melanie Krause, the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), will be resigning after barely six weeks on the job, in advance of the agency sharing taxpayer data with federal immigration authorities, according to The New York Times.
Krause has served as the acting agency commissioner for barely six weeks, as the third person to hold the job at the tax collection agency this year. Two current and one former IRS employees told CNN that Krause informed her staff on Tuesday that she was resigning.
One source said the data-sharing agreement was one factor in Krause’s decision to leave, and that the final agreement was different than the last draft Krause was involved in. The source said that other reasons Krause wanted to leave included the exodus of other senior executive career employees over the past few days as well as the direction the IRS is heading in.
Now, in the interest of fairness, there’s some indication that the final agreement was different from the last one she worked on, so it might have been a case of that really being the issue as opposed to anything else, but considering what else we’ve seen from the bureaucracy this year, I’m skeptical.
Honestly, this reminds me of the attorney who quit the DOJ because she supposedly didn’t want to put Mel Gibson’s name on a list of people who would get their gun rights.
I find it interesting how many people would rather be without a job than do as they’re instructed by the Trump administration. Then they can go on and pretend to be the victim because they couldn’t do what their boss told them to do.
If I don’t do what my bosses tell me to do, I get fired.
That goes for everyone else.
It’s only people in the federal government who seem to think that they’re above answering to anyone. They want to do whatever it is, then when they get fired for any reason at all, they run to a judge to block it.
Or they quit when directed to do something they don’t like, then preen about like they’re a martyr.
But they forget that most of us would either get fired or be forced to quit our own jobs if we didn’t want to do what was asked of us. While we might get high fives from our friends or comment like, “I’d have quit, too,” no one beyond our circle of intimates would give a damn.
Yes, I find it a strange hill to choose to die on, also. Don’t get me wrong on that. Being upset over not being able to protect illegal immigrants’ tax records—if there are any for some of them—and quitting a high-paying job like that seems odd to me.
But everyone can see that. No one needs me to point it out to them.
The fact that there are so many people in the federal workforce who think they’re special, that they’re better than the rest of America, is something that needs to be pointed out.
They need to know they’re not. They’re workers in a machine, and they’re just as replaceable or expendable as anyone else. Many of them are more so than the rest of us because there are just so many of them currently in place doing absolutely nothing.
And we need to do something about the judiciary that seems to think that one judge can block literally everything the Trump administration tries to do, including downsizing the federal workforce. Especially since we all know that no federal judge would look out for us like that.
Look, my thing is that we’re all supposed to be equal before the law, but the status quo is that some animals are more equal than others, and that’s a big freaking problem.
The fact that some people are celebrating Krause as if she made some heroic stand is stupid. It’s just as stupid as it was when they lashed out about everyone else getting canned or quitting because they didn’t like what they were instructed to do.
They’re not special. They’re Americans who deserve no more job security than anyone else.
If they want to keep their jobs, then they need to earn it every single day, just like the rest of us have to.
Don’t let the door hit ya.
Lois Lerner will always be the face of the IRS to me.
Her picture looks like a total ding dong.
One source said the data-sharing agreement was one factor in Krause’s decision to leave, and that the final agreement was different than the last draft Krause was involved in. The source said that other reasons Krause wanted to leave included the exodus of other senior executive career employees over the past few days as well as the direction the IRS is heading in.
Once again with the “unnamed” source...
She wanted a high-level bureaucrat job but not one where she'd be accountable.
Off Topic:
Melanie Krause name is very similar to the maiden name of the First Lady: Melania Knauss.
Too bad Ms Krause doesn’t think more like Melania.
Or Ms. Kraus from Benson for that matter.
The Gig is up. People are going to be held to account.
Nobody wants to be in charge when the truth comes out.
People have houses and neighbors. They go to public places. They won’t be safe if they cheated and stole from everyone. Better to quit now and hide in the shadows.
Krause is simply a liberal-lefty-ideologue, a light weight place holder, the IRS keeps shuffling them out ( 3 to date) to try and do the dirty to Trump’s agenda but they just get fired by resigning so they can keep their pensions.
Soon we will have a Trump supporter as head of the IRS which is soon to become the ERS, enforcing tariff law and its associated income.
What this tells me is that leftists in this country have LONG worked on keeping IRS and SSA funding/payouts separate - hidden from each other. If you look at it they’ve had nearly 40 years to install their automatons into every level of their hierarchies.
Especially knowing these same individuals proudly display zero integrity and morals when it comes to their progressive doctrine.
Self-draining swamp
My guess is that typically a warrant would be required. Getting busted for a federal crime does not usually grant automatic access to tax info unless, of course, there’s an accusation of a tax crime.
Nevertheless, given the ease of democrats to get Trump’s tax returns out, along with judge shopping, it should be a relatively easy matter to get such warrants.
In addition, since you could generally classify the recklessly unvetted millions of illegals Biden let in as a security threat, they should also be able to get a general warrant from the FISA court to get such records.
So I think half the problem here maybe the administration’s approach to accessing this info via an “agreement”.
Praetorian Guards
One might think so but it seems more than that. It looks to me Democrats worked diligently to keep one from knowing ANYTHING about the other.
Additionally, one of the very first uses of computers was to collect data sources into data bases. And with such, doing things like field sorts on something like, say, duplicate uses of SSNs would be one of the most basic outputs. This all was INTENTIONAL.
Those “unnamed” sources are often pulled from “unnamed” places....
Usually out of their asses.
Louis learner and her residual needed to hit the door before they got there also.
Real government reform is coming hopefully a government for the people by the people. Make government crime not pay, cut all the fat.
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