Posted on 01/15/2015 7:13:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Tax Reform: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, might have hit on the most important fiscal issue facing the U.S.: the need for major tax reform. But he takes it a step further.
Speaking Monday, the senator from Texas threw another thunderbolt: Republicans should use their control of Congress to get rid of the Internal Revenue Service.
"We need to pass fundamental tax reform making our tax code simpler, flatter, fairer," he told a crowd at a Heritage Foundation event. "And I'll tell you, the single most important tax reform, we should abolish the IRS."
It's not as radical as it sounds.
In recent years, the IRS has become overtly political, or "weaponized," as Cruz puts it. The IRS scandal, in which it "slow-walked" applications by Tea Party and other conservative groups to deny them nontax status during the 2012 presidential race, is but one example.
Its 110,000-person workforce has become a silent army working on behalf of progressive causes.
That, in itself, is bad enough. But as the Americans for Tax Reform point out in a recent blog post on their website, unless his agency gets more money, "IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has threatened delayed refunds, long call-wait times, the specter of identity theft, and now, no-show days for IRS employees."(continued)
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This is a new idea?
Maybe not, but well worth doing.
Abolish the EPA too.
Tax reform is the biggest issue facing this country and would eliminate many other problems.
IMHO a flat tax and abolishing the IRS is paramount.
there’s 500 other people who will vote against it.
But thanks for floating the balloon.
With a Republican majority ... NO ONE will impeach.
Weaponized indeed.
But the EXEMPT Congress could not care.
THEY are EXEMPT from this, too.
The EXEMPT class is lawless, above all laws,
and it makes TAXES and DEATHCARE for the less fortunate
below them.
And the NEA, especially the NEA.
no one’s ever said the IRS has been weaponized before.....
Abolish HUD
This gets floated around prior to every tax season, and nothing ever comes of it. If only it could be.
FLAT TAX
NO “FAIR” TAX!!!!!!!!!
Anyone who likes the “fair” tax is a commie
My vote for Best Idea: Warren Buffet’s idea:
If there is a budget deficit of more than 3% of spending, the currently-sitting members of Congress cannot run for reelection.
Who knows, maybe Congress would quit using my money to buy cell phones for deadbeats.
Abolish the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue for Socialists) and put that GESTAPO agent skank POS pig Lerner in prison.
Then, work your way down the list…(A-Z)…pick any 10-20 to start...
http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Ted Cruz 2016 and Contract with America version 2.0 Abolish the IRS. Winning Ticket.
Scott Walker VP.
Ben Carson clean up what WAS OCare.
The IRS should have been abolished long ago.
(Though I seem to recall that when people ranging from Ron Paul to Alan Keyes proposed abolishing the income tax (and thus the IRS), my fellow FReepers blasted them for it.)
Eliminate the income tax, make it a consumption tax. IRS is then out of a job.
Ron Paul is a peacecreep, anti-Semitic, truther kook and Alan Keyes gave us Senator Barack Obama. Your move.
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