Will the IRS be scrapped?

Editor's note: Don't hold your breath but it is an intriguing idea and would only be beneficial. Understand that employees in the private sector in California are paying almost 60 percent of their salaries in taxes and where rent is astronomical. It is not a question if abolishing the IRS will work. There was no IRS prior to 1913 and everything worked fairly well. A tax on labor is slavery. Will the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) be scrapped? Americans deserve a dividend:

Elon Musk says he'll look into $5,000 DOGE dividend checks for Americans
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IRS fires 6,000 employees as Trump slashes US government

By Nathan Layne and Andy Sullivan | February 21, 2025

(Reuters) - A tearful executive at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service told staffers on Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6% of the agency's workforce in the midst of the busy tax-filing season.

The cuts are part of President Donald Trump's sweeping downsizing effort that has targeted bank regulators, forest workers, rocket scientists and tens of thousands of other government employees. The effort is being led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, Trump's biggest campaign donor.

Musk was on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, when Argentine President Javier Milei, known for wielding a chainsaw to illustrate his drastic policies slashing government spending, handed him one.

"This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy," said Musk, holding the power tool aloft as a stage prop to symbolize the drastic slashing of government jobs.

Labor unions have sued to try to stop the mass firings, under which tens of thousands of federal workers have been told they no longer have a job, but a federal judge in Washington on Thursday ruled that they can continue for now.

Christy Armstrong, IRS director of talent acquisition, teared up as she told employees on a phone call that about 6,000 of their colleagues would be laid off and encouraged them to support each other, a worker who was on the call said.

"She was pretty emotional," the worker said.

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The pillaging is incomprehensible:

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77,000 federal employees purged moving into the private sector?

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