Posted on 02/24/2025 1:42:49 PM PST by JV3MRC
The New York Times acted like getting former IRS commissioners to bellyache over President Donald Trump’s cuts to one of the most hated agencies in Washington was some kind of a flex.
Commissioners from both Democratic and Republican administrations penned a February 24 guest essay lambasting Trump for daring to initiate cuts to the IRS workforce: “Trump Just Fired 6,700 I.R.S. Workers in the Middle of Tax Season. That’s a Huge Mistake.”
Former IRS chiefs Lawrence Gibbs, Fred T. Goldberg Jr., Charles Rossotti, Mark Everson, John Koskinen, Charles Rettig and Daniel Werfel were up in arms over Trump allegedly not comporting with normal CEO strategy to strip waste from the organization by “Tak[ing] an ax to accounts receivable, the part of an organization responsible for collecting revenue.”
Here’s the issue: Not every "organization" has a notorious record of abusing taxpayers based on their political views while still getting billions in tax funding anyway as the IRS does.
It’s also hard to take this kvetching seriously since four of the authors, including Ronald Reagan appointee Gibbs, are on the record simping for President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending monstrosity erroneously named Build Back Better in a March 2021 op-ed headlined, “Biden’s proposal would create a fairer tax system.”
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IRS chiefs have no interest in cutting spending. Their interest lies in increasing revenue.
The US citizens who are able to work up a lot of sympathy for IRS employees are the ones who are truly a lost cause.
I wonder if any former Tea Party members are getting worked up over this?
Am I supposed to care what these former heads, who were in charge when all the fraud and graft was taking place? (Not directed at you, JV3MRC)
Wonder how worked up they’ll be when the Income Tax AND the IRS are abolished.
"6,700"
Criminals whining about getting caught is not “News” NY Slimes
elimination of the IRS can’t come soon enough.
What did Lois Lerner have to say.????
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