Elon Musk asks if the IRS should be ‘deleted’ after agency begs for $20 billion – here’s how X users responded

New York Post ^ | Nov. 27, 2024, | Victor Nava

[george76]

Elon Musk asked social media users Wednesday if the Internal Revenue Service should be “deleted” — a day after a top Biden-Harris administration official urged Congress to give the federal agency $20 billion.

“The IRS just said it wants $20B more money,” Musk, who will co-lead informal Department of Government Efficiency under President-elect Donald Trump, wrote on X.

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Only 3.9% said the federal agency’s budget should remain the same, 5.6% felt it deserved more money and 29.9% said the IRS budget should be decreased.

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The Tesla CEO’s tweet follows Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo making a desperate public plea for billions of dollars in more funding for the IRS.

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The massive shortfall appears to be the result of text included in stopgap congressional legislation passed in September to keep the federal government funded until Dec. 20.

Congressional Republicans have tucked a $20 billion IRS enforcement cut into the government funding legislation

The world’s richest person then asked users for their thoughts on the tax authority’s budget situation.

“Do you think its budget should be: Increased, Same, Decreased, Deleted,” Musk asked in a poll.

More than 60% of X users preferred having the IRS’s budget “deleted.”

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The SpaceX founder and X owner has already pledged to cut the bloated federal budget by “at least $2 trillion.”

[ClearCase_guy]

Fair Tax please.

[usconservative]

Assuming DELETED means the IRS is toast/disbanded/gone forever, YES!!!

[DIRTYSECRET]

Again. Lower the tax to 1% and institute the Fair Tax on consumption. Eliminate the income tax entirely as the taxpayers buy in.

[teeman8r]

IRS should only audit members of the house and senate... let them work on commission

[CodeToad]

No TAX! None! We created this country with no income tax and that was for good reason.

[realcleanguy]

And to think we revolted against England for a 1 cent tax.....

[BradyLS]

Freeze all budgets where they are. No more money beyond that. If inflation eats into it or there’s a “crisis,” the agency leaders can decide where to cut spending: trim waste or trim stuffing their pockets. Service to the tax-paying public shall not be infringed.

[C210N]

According to the Grace Commission Report:

“With two thirds of everyone’s personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt and by federal government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services that taxpayers expect from their government.”

The IRS is merely a collection agency to return fiat to the Federal Reserve. It pays for NO government itself, other than servicing the debt on the fiat currency the FED created.

The IRS should be unalived. Deleted. Gone. Bye bye.

[GOPJ]

Timely tag...

[Mean Daddy]

No TAX! None! We created this country with no income tax and that was for good reason.

Or make people have to write a check at the end of the year vs. coming out of their paychecks and making companies tax collectors for the government. People would scream if they have to write a check.

[eyeamok]

First the new 85,000 agents should be tasked to give fornsic audits to every PUBLIC SERVANT in this country.

[rigelkentaurus]

IRS budget = 0

Income tax, in a fair country, would be illegal. It would be a consumption tax that the States would collect and forward to the Treasury. It would exclude certain items including groceries but not eating out and such, just like State sales taxes. There would be a Constitutional limit on the percent and it would not be a Value Added Tax, just a sales tax.

[Ezekiel]

“Do you think its budget should be: Increased, Same, Decreased, Deleted,” Musk asked in a poll.

More than 60% of X users preferred having the IRS’s budget “deleted.”

This is exactly how to beat these people. To a pulp. With polls.

Good old-fashioned Yankee Ingenuity in action. God Bless America.

Remember!
Celebrate!
Act!

On January 20, 2025, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday will mark the 30th anniversary as a National Day of Service.

https://www.dodea.edu/news/observance-calendar/martin-luther-king-jr-day

the only federal holiday commemorating an African-American

What timing! What a fitting day for the new administration to honor a famous, accomplished African-American:

[bert]

The public has no real knowledge of what the IRS budget request should be.

There is considerable desire to just get rid of the IRS all together. That just isn’t possible because the Revenue service is absolutely necessary to the function of the federal government and the very existence of the nation.

Musk should never have asked the irrelevant question

[GOPJ]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4283987/posts

Basically Elon told the engineers at Twitter there was no need for THREE server farms. They consume humongous amounts of power.

Engineers said there was.

Elon told them to disconnect the ones in Sacramento.

They said it would take six months.

Elon said you can do it in six weeks.

They said they couldn’t.

He said you can do it six days.

They said it was impossible.

Elon said you’re fired. Two days before Christmas.

Elon and his two cousins (who are engineers themselves) Fly home to Austin for Christmas.

On the way one cousin says to Elon, “Why don’t we disconnect the server ourselves?”

Elon orders the pilot to turn the plane around and fly to Sacremento.

They drive to the server farm and identify themselves to the security guard who is astounded.

They then attempt to get into the building that is locked and the guard doesn’t have a key.

He ask his private bodyguard if he has a pocket knife which he does and hands it to Elon.

Elon finds the data cables to the servers and cuts them and the server farm is disconnected...

Twitter/X is running just fine with only 20% of it former staff

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For those who wonder if Elon can do this...

[quantim]

The spending GOPe hogs always do the same thing this time of years, push an omnibus to get us through the holidays and into next year. I recall last year Charlie Kirk was furious over this type of spending.

If one thinks Johnson is a good GOPe leader then one doesn’t understand the redistribution of wealth, socialism, and debt. And the uniparty. It was tough seeing this clown at the UFC Championship and the Trump entourage a few weeks ago.

[bert]

He has the job and you don’t

He’s the better man simply you aren’t speaker or even an elected member of the congress

[quantim]

Also this is a must see for Elon fans, what America needs right now is the biggest political wood chipper imaginable:

https://x.com/CrazyVibes_1/status/1866818880187887852

[Damifino]

I guess I don't fully understand the question. Is the proposal to eliminate the IRS without replacing it? How are Federal taxes to be collected?

I think the IRS has to remain as long as the current Federal tax code is in effect. Do we fundamentally change the tax system is probably the correct question.

I say yes, replace it with a Federal sales tax.
- Would take a Constitutional amendment.
- The Senate can decide which items are taxed and at what rate
- Basic needs items not taxed, or at a very low rate.
- Luxury items taxed at a high rate.
- Those with cash businesses or a side hustle (hookers and drug dealers)will start to pay their fair share.