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.
Time to go back to letting the states levy taxes, decide how they’re spent at home and how much to send the feds.
God forbid this POS had to go out a get a real job like the rest of us.
I guess it’s much easier to sit on one’s ass and fleece we the taxpayers. Throw some corruption in the mix and you’re all set.
FUJK!
Once the yoke is in place, it is not so easy to complain.
It is the American people who pay his salary.
It is the unAmerican people who benefit most.
‘Splain dat , Skrewwhead.. Uhhh Commish.
These people get more and more arrogant with each passing moment.
IMHO
not an opinion its a fact
John meet revrunt Al. Now STFU.
THAT is exactly how it's supposed to work
All these federal level proposals - fair tax, flat tax, VATs...crap.
Repeal the 16th Amendment and go back to having the Sovereign States pay their membership dues in the Union.
Yes, history has proven Patrick Henry correct.
The probably is all the deals with the states.
Arrogant a$$hole. I want to see him walking the streets wearing a sandwich board.
What an uppity little prick!
whoops....The Problem is....not probably
1. Yes, the tax CODE has gotten WAY out of hand.
but also -
2. the personnel at the IRS... why is it that most Americans FEAR the IRS?? It’s because they treat citizens as criminals right off the bat.
Start looking for a new job Koskinen. You probably
aren’t qualified to operate a push-broom.
The chief of IRS is in a term limited to the pleasure of the President. Yoda goes on forever within the power of the Force.
Time to rewind the film back to 1776. There’s enough legislation and the creation of useless agencies to sink an armada.
This guy is one smartass.
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