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Abolishing The Internal Revenue Service
President Donald Trump talks a lot. Donald Trump makes a lot of promises. The president has talked a lot and promised a lot to the American people, and many of those promises, American taxpayers normally shrug it off. However, as time passes, it seems that he is making good on all of his promises so far. During his presidential campaign, President Donald Trump said he was going to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and the IRS is a corrupt federal agency that is used to weaponize taxpayers who disagree with the Democratic Party. I agree with President Donald Trump’s ideology that you need to lower taxes at all levels to stimulate the economy and NOT increase taxes. To what merit does President Donald Trump’s statement and promise that his mission under his watch is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and create the External Revenue Service? To what extent is the president willing to go, and how likely is it? Can you please share with the viewers at GCA Forums News? Since most of us members of GCA Forums News are not economists and just average American wage earners, can you run over three to five case scenarios where President Donald Trump succeeds in his mission to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, create the External Revenue Service, and there will be no more federal income taxes? What happens to income taxes and other taxes on the state level? How will this move benefit the American people?
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The talk of the town is the massive fraud and corruption that is being discovered by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). President Donald Trump, through his newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, has discovered tens of millions of taxpayer funds that have not been accounted for while auditing the USAID, the Department of Education, the Social Security Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. Although there was not solid evidence and paperwork claiming Elon Musk, the person that has been assigned to head the Department of Government Efficiency, potential fraud, corruption, and theft has been the talk of podcasters, tabloids, and even the news media. There is always breaking news every minute of every day with regards to the tens of thousands of government workers the Trump Administration is planning on laying off, especially tens of thousands of government workers of the IRS starting today. How many thousands of employees did the Department of Government Efficiency terminate and offer early retirement packages as of today?
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As of 21st February 2025, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has dramatically cut the workforce of many federal departments. The cuts are part of a holistic strategy to rationalize the functioning of the government and bring down costs.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS):
Roughly 6,000 employees have been fired which is about 6% of the total IRS employment.
The layoffs mainly target probationary employees which include: Revenue Agents, Customer Service Representatives, IT employees, Tax Appeals Officers, etc.
Other Federal Agencies:
Department of Veterans Affairs: Fewer than 1,000 employee cuts.
Department of Health and Human Services: Roughly 5,200 employees, thereof 1,300 employment at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Environmental Protection Agency: 388 firings.
Department of the Interior: Approximately 2,300 employees were put to the budgetary sword, with especially fierce slash-and-burn actions in the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service.
Department of Agriculture: Important cuts in the Natural Resources Conservation Service (~1,200 employees) and in the U.S. Forest Service (~3,400 employees).
Department of Energy: Between 1200 to 2000 official cuts, including people from National Nuclear Security Administration.
Transportation Security Administration: Roughly 200 firings.
U.S. Digital Service: About 50 staff members let go.
In total, these actions have led to the layoffs of over 10,000 federal workers. Other estimates say more than 40,000 workers volunteered to retire or leave with benefits from DOGE.
This downsizing has led to a public outcry along with some lawsuits as many fear for the social services that may be impacted and for the people who may lose their jobs.
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Too large of government is not healthy for any country and often bad. Most of government agencies should be privatized and run like a business. Government does not have an endless printing press where they can print money whenever they need, which seems what the Federal Reserve Board is and has been doing since the gold and silver standard has been abolished by President Franklin Roosevelt. What federal agencies is the Trump Administration going to abolish?
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Like they did with other mid-level bureaucracies, the Trump administration is set to take drastic action on international development cover agencies through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) spearheaded by Elon Musk. This is scheduled to be implemented on February 21st, 2025. Some of the key movements are:
1. U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID):
The department has proposed plans to slash funding for American aid projects across the globe, effectively killing USAID.
2. Department of Education:
An executive order has been authored which enables the administration to initiate the Department of Education Eradication Project.
3. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):
The CFPB has been earmarked for further administrative emasculation or actual abolition.
This is inline with what is contained in Project 2025 which has set out to permanently reengineer the federal government by centralizing executive authority and shrinkage of some of the independent executive agencies to micromanagement level. No Child Left Behind program is set to be defunded, as will be the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Education.
It is necessary to point out once more that the capsizing of some federal agencies and their fulfilling functions is at a no go stage. Everything would need to face some sort of legislative decision for abolishment and then there would still be legal hurdles to passing it. Their restructuration at break neck speed clearly has gotten some entities bounds out of shape resulting in legal wrangling, in the recent case we see a judge’s ruling on allowing the freezes for the withdrawal of several USAID employees from the filed positions.
Stay tuned to reliable news sources and government messages for more information on where things stand regarding these issues.
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