Posted on 03/04/2016 3:21:31 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It's America's favorite pander. Pledging to abolish the Internal Revenue Service is only slightly less attractive than promising unlimited, consequence-free sex with the partners of our choice. Nobody likes the IRS, and eliminating it entirely will surely resolve many, many sleepless nights for too many Americans, especially at this time of year.
So, it's no wonder why Ted Cruz is promising to abolish the IRS. It's such a crucial aspect of his platform that he mentioned it twice during his Super Tuesday victory speech in Texas because, for middle-aged Republican voters, it's way better fapping material than naked pics of Sarah Palin. And Ted Cruz, with his skeevy face and Glengarry salesman mendacity, has no choice but to roll out the big guns in order to compensate for his unprecedented repulsiveness -- booger mishap and all.
Too bad it's a pipe dream.
During various Cruz stump speeches and television spots, the loathsome senator with his punch-me face can be heard to pledge three things related to taxes:
1) A 10 percent flat-tax. 2) Tax returns filed on postcard-sized forms. 3) No more IRS.
The question that ought to immediately spring to mind for anyone paying attention is this: Where the hell do we send our postcard-sized tax returns if the IRS doesn't exist any more? I've asked this question repeatedly on the Bob & Chez Show as well as throughout social media, and not a single Cruz supporter has bothered to answer.
Consequently, I did some digging myself and discovered the truth.
Ted Cruz absolutely doesn't plan to abolish the IRS after all. Instead, Cruz intends to shrink the size of the agency. How do we know this? Cruz's campaign website...
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybanter.com ...
You are pretty busy.............
Are you in favor of the IRS status quo?
it's way better fapping material than naked pics of Sarah Palin.
Shaking your head? You should be, after posting disgusting, vile, drivel like this.
People ought to know by now that he cant.
Even with a flat tax, he will need a “service” to collect all of that “internal revenue”.
The problem is the INCOME TAX. The IRS just exists because it has been written into the constitution.
Although declawing them should be a priority.
Elect Trump and sit back and watch that wall go up...I bet you a dollar to a doughnut that he will get that done...
No, you call him that because you have no class.
Only one person calls him that. And that person has suddenly turned 45 to 90 degrees on a handful of his promises. Not quite lying yet but well on the way of showing true colors!
I agree. As long as businesses are in business, there will be a tax agency scrutinizing every number on every line.
Individual taxes can only be reduced to a postcard if there are no life events - buying/selling a home; investments; etc.
Cruz has never lived in the real world. We’re not sure who his Dad paid taxes to but Cruz probably didn’t learn much about meeting April 15 deadlines.
Breath mint, lozenge, etc?
These candidates are speaking so much I don’t know how they keep any voice.
...is only slightly less attractive than promising unlimited, consequence-free sex with the partners of our choice.
...it's way better fapping material than naked pics of Sarah Palin.
What good does this filth do for America?
Good God. We’re all socialists now on Free Republic. There is going to be a department within the Treasury that handles tax payments but you can have a revenue department without it being the IRS. Every state and locality has one. None are like the IRS as we know it.
Nobody bothers to answer it, because the question is completely stupid. The point isn't abolishing a federal agency, but about taking away its power to pry into every corner of your life, and reward you for "good behavior" while punishing you for "bad behavior."
Are Trumpbots really so intellectually shallow that they can't accomplish even this small degree of interpolation? Seriously?
No, critical thinking going on...
No, gut thinking going on....
It's a shame.....to see FReeper's going mean and rude and nuclear on each other.
Free Republic..has lost something.
Lost something...in deed.
Campaign promises are one thing. Reality is another.
None of the candidates will be able to abolish the IRS.
What they can do is wqork on simplifying tax laws so that the workforce of the IRS can be reduced, and it’s powers to attack people based on their political affiliations is brought under control at a minimum. Stopped if possible.
Just one more example of Ted being willing to say anything to get elected. He is about as likely to abolish the IRS as he is to construct a wall and secure the border. He has no real intention to do either. At least with Trump we will get someone who will build the wall and secure the border. He is also someone who will provide leadership abilities that Ted does not possess.
Would you vote Bob for president?
Progressives Unite, Bob Cesca For President!
January 27, 2010 | ExtremeLiberal
Every progressive needs to read Bob Cesca’s latest column at Huffington Post, he spells out the rift in the progressive movement and tries to move things forward.
https://extremeliberal.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/progressives-unite-bob-cesca-for-president/
Just info on the author.
This isn’t that complicated, and whether you support Trump or Cruz or some other candidate, this is still something that needs to be considered.
Obviously there will always be some kind of tax and some kind of agency that collects it.
A tax based on your salary isn’t really a problem; the problem is individualizing it, so that an ordinary citizen is responsible for keeping track and revealing every last piece of personal information about himself to prove that he is keeping track.
Employers already collect the money and send it in based on a table. All you have to do is shift the responsibility to the one who is already collecting the tax. Done. You need never have any contact with the IRS or its replacement agency, ever again.
The important thing is that ordinary citizens should not be saddled with dealing with this. If you start a business, and especially if you start hiring people, then guess what, you will be deducting the tax and sending it in, which under the current system you would anyway. But the business does it, not the employee. This is not a new burden, they are already doing it. You remove a burden from the ordinary citizen, but no new burden is created.
Granted, for this to work, you have to simplify it, eliminating most of the deductions, you would move to either a flat tax or a fairly straightforward table, and there would be no difference in married or single or head of household. It isn’t individualized at all. Your name isn’t even attached to it at all. The company’s payroll is x, and 15% percent of that is the tax owed. Done.
Did you read this part of the article?
Shouldn't everyone have some skin in the game?
Besides, the real argument is that you would never in a million years get the congress to give up their ultimate power base, and accomplishing this would take an act of congress as the POTUS does not have the power.
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