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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,711 posts)
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:21 AM Mar 2017

Under Trump, an Already Depleted I.R.S. Could Face Deep Cuts

WASHINGTON — President Trump has a rocky history with the Internal Revenue Service, which he has complained audits him with unfair ferocity. Now he wants to significantly cut the tax agency’s funding at a time when it has already been bleeding staff and struggling to keep up with a flood of returns ahead of Tax Day.

The plans, revealed this week in documents associated with the White House budget outline, put Mr. Trump at odds with his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, who has argued that the I.R.S. needs more money and a larger staff.

Another round of cuts, tax experts say, could put one of the few federal departments that pay for themselves on life support.

“This is an agency that has had every last drop squeezed out of it,” said Dennis J. Ventry Jr., a member of the I.R.S. advisory council and a law professor at the University of California, Davis. “I don’t know how it’s going to sustain itself.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/us/politics/trump-mnuchin-irs.html?_r=0

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Under Trump, an Already Depleted I.R.S. Could Face Deep Cuts (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2017 OP
That'll insure tRump never pays taxes. And never gets marybourg Mar 2017 #1
Don't worry dear, they will still take your money. Doreen Mar 2017 #2
"I don't need the IRS. I pay no taxes!" dalton99a Mar 2017 #3
I'm willing to bet $50M ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #4

marybourg

(12,584 posts)
1. That'll insure tRump never pays taxes. And never gets
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:27 AM
Mar 2017

audited again. In fact, this may be why he wanted to be President.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
2. Don't worry dear, they will still take your money.
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:32 AM
Mar 2017

In fact since rich people will not have to pay taxes the working poor and lower middle class will have to pay the most. We will be tight friends with them. I mean come on, this is just Trumps way of making it so we are on a first name bases when we have to see them every year to get screwed out of more money.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
4. I'm willing to bet $50M
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 02:02 AM
Mar 2017

that tRump does not know which amendment introduced taxes on a permanent basis and when the amendment was added.

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