Posted on 04/01/2015 9:52:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
John Koskinen, the strange, David Icke-like lizard person currently in charge of the Internal Revenue Service, has told Congress to forget about abolishing the agency:
The IRS commissioner on Tuesday brushed aside GOP proposals to abolish his agency, insisting the U.S. would have to have a tax collector one way or another. “You can call them something other than the IRS if that made you feel better,” the agency’s chief, John Koskinen, said after a speech at the National Press Club.
Republicans have heaped even more criticism upon the agency than usual over the last 22 months because of its improper scrutiny of Tea Party groups. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) perhaps has made the most prominent calls to get rid of the IRS. While launching his presidential bid earlier in March, he floated the idea of “a simple flat tax that lets every American fill out his or her taxes on a postcard. Imagine abolishing the IRS,” he added.
Koskinen said Tuesday that, even under the simplest of tax codes, the federal government would need an agency to collect revenue and administer the tax code, something Cruz’s own aides have also admitted. “Somebody has to collect the money, and then somebody also has to make sure when you fill in the small card, you’re putting in the right numbers,” Koskinen said.
Not if we repeal the 16th amendment, we don’t.
But Koskinen also said he understands why politicians seek to tap into public anger at the IRS. Conservatives have become increasingly angry at the IRS because of the Tea Party controversy, but Koskinen insisted that an overly complicated tax code spurred much of the anger at his agency.
“I think that’s a lot of what’s behind, you know, ‘get rid of the IRS.’ It’s really ‘get rid of this complicated tax code.’ And to that extent, I think that’s a reasonable goal,” Koskinen said.
So what’s stopping us? Only the entrenched interests of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party, that’s what.
Doesn’t the Fair Tax proposal use state agencies to collect a national sales tax along with the state sales tax and remit the proceeds to Washington?
Congress should defund the mookabookers.
Course they won’t cause they got no balls.
Told you I did, More good looking Yoda is. Wiser too.
Or dumpster diving.
Quite frankly, he has nothing to fear from the congress. First off, he knows the congress is nothing but hot air and political theater. All bark and no bite. He may as well have given them the finger. Congress will still do nothing to him. Second, congress is part of the money collecting system so they are in this with him. Congress wants to appear as outsiders but in reality they are the ultimate revenue collectors who depend on the IRS. And third, congress is controlled by special interests who support the complexity of the tax code. Ain’t nothing gonna change.
The system is what it is. And the arrogance will continue.
In dealing with the IRS, you are guilty until proven innocent. Instead of innocent until proven guilty of some infraction.
We all want everyone to pay their taxes. But some stories about the IRS and their actions during audits is enough to make you think there is no due process when dealing with them.
To wit: The Chewbacca Defense.
Put them in jail and make it Felon Revenue Service, FRS.
Dayum, what a pompous ass.
The Supreme Court has clarified that Congess cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially only for things that it can justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
But the corrupt Senate elected by low-information voters has scandalously failed to kill a bunch of House appropriations bills (1.7.1) that the House cannot justify under Congress’s Section 8 powers.
The 17th Amendment needs to go.
Congress lets everyone dish them. I hate to say it they deserve it.
An alternative would be to rid the Bureau of all GS 14 and above.
Haggling over the disposition would be counter productive, just get rid of them
So much for the ridiculous lie ‘public servant’.
” Repeal the 16th Amendment and go back to having the Sovereign States pay their membership dues in the Union. “
Well, there are at least 2 of us that see the merit here : )
The troglodytes over at Politico are having spasms over the put down of Ted related to his comment of doing away with the IRS.
Retards.
You mean follow the constitution?
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