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DeSantis says as US president he would eliminate IRS, DoE (Energy & Education) & DoC(Commerce)
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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So would there be no federal taxes?
The aim is to starve out communities that rely on it, and sic the military on dissenters
Does not the military rely on it
Military is military, they get their own funding, and the aim is to have them be the functional government
Who's paying the military in this scenario?
The only taxes GOPS want to pay are the Military Tax and the Police Tax
Um, so his army is going to follow the "reddit mod" model and work for free?
Isnt this mostly going to be starving conservative comunities?
Yeah some deep red states would be absolutely fucked
Red states? Absolutely Conservative communities? The only ones they consider are board meetings
As there were none before Jekyll Island it would be entirely possible to not have it again. But it's too late and your country will go bankrupt most likely by the end of this decade.
That was the formation of the Federal Reserve system. IRS was formed at the time of the Civil War.
Yes, but they started taxing our income after 1913.