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Abolish the IRS? Defiant Agency Chief Tells Congress to Shove It
Pajamas Media ^ | 04/01/2015 | Michael Walsh

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.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abolishirs; congress; irs; irsscandals; johnkoskinen; koskinen
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To: cripplecreek

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?


21 posted on 04/01/2015 10:08:30 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

Congress should defund the mookabookers.
Course they won’t cause they got no balls.


22 posted on 04/01/2015 10:08:48 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Doogle

23 posted on 04/01/2015 10:08:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Doogle

Told you I did, More good looking Yoda is. Wiser too.


24 posted on 04/01/2015 10:09:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: beethovenfan

Or dumpster diving.


25 posted on 04/01/2015 10:11:01 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: ripley

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.


26 posted on 04/01/2015 10:12:18 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: joethedrummer

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.


27 posted on 04/01/2015 10:12:28 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Red Badger

To wit: The Chewbacca Defense.


28 posted on 04/01/2015 10:12:58 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Put them in jail and make it Felon Revenue Service, FRS.


29 posted on 04/01/2015 10:14:24 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Ted Cruz 2016!)
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To: NormsRevenge
ZACTLY.

Dayum, what a pompous ass.

30 posted on 04/01/2015 10:14:55 AM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All
Add the IRS to the list as to why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to be repealed.

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.

31 posted on 04/01/2015 10:15:34 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Joe Boucher

Congress lets everyone dish them. I hate to say it they deserve it.


32 posted on 04/01/2015 10:16:19 AM PDT by magua
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To: SeekAndFind

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


33 posted on 04/01/2015 10:16:23 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: SeekAndFind

34 posted on 04/01/2015 10:17:32 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SeekAndFind
I say this to Koskonen, "When in the course of human events..."

I hope he gets my drift...
35 posted on 04/01/2015 10:17:34 AM PDT by BigEdLB (We're experienceing the rule of a Roman Emperor, Barack I)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

36 posted on 04/01/2015 10:21:26 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SeekAndFind

So much for the ridiculous lie ‘public servant’.


37 posted on 04/01/2015 10:21:58 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Regulator

” 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 : )


38 posted on 04/01/2015 10:26:04 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: HomerBohn

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.


39 posted on 04/01/2015 10:26:05 AM PDT by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: cripplecreek

You mean follow the constitution?


40 posted on 04/01/2015 10:29:51 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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