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DeSantis Stands Firm on Taxation, Welcomes
Bill to Abolish the IRS

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/27/2023 11:14:53 PM

On Thursday, Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said he would welcome a bill to defund the IRS. DeSantis made the comments to Dana Loesch, a Second Amendment advocate and host of The Dana Show. During the interview, Loesch questioned DeSantis on his position regarding federal taxation, asking: If Congress defunded the IRS and sent such a bill like that to your desk, number one: Would you sign it? And then what would you replace the system with? Are you for a fair tax? A flat tax? Where do you stand on that?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: velirotta 5/27/2023 11:31:11 PM (No. 1479089)
If they de-fund the IRS, who will get all the weapons and the million rounds of ammunition they received a decade ago?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: snakeoil 5/27/2023 11:39:33 PM (No. 1479094)
Don't know which method of taxation would raise the most moola. But it would eliminate the IRS which is another DNC weapon. When Paula Jones charged Slick Willie with sexual harassment her IRS returns were audited.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Catherine 5/28/2023 12:19:57 AM (No. 1479109)
He's like santa claus, throwing 'gifts' out there for everyone. Reeks of desperation. He has to know as long as Trump can run, he won't win.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rhh0nda 5/28/2023 2:51:12 AM (No. 1479147)
This is great! DeSantis is just all kinds of stupid funny and he's too stupid to know it! Hey Ron is bringing the bologna and cheese to the Party and Carl Rove and Dubya brought the Kool-Aid!! Well ain't that America for you and me Ain't that America bologna and cheese Well ain't that America, home of the Free little glasses of Kool-Aid for you and me This is it, this is all the R.N.C. is offering you, bologna and cheese DeSandwich and colored sugar water to wash it down!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jdano 5/28/2023 6:43:15 AM (No. 1479188)
IMO, a stepped flat tax might be good, but a 'fair' tax, collected as sales tax, would greatly benefit the black market, who chief operators are Chinese and russian.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DiegoDude 5/28/2023 6:54:19 AM (No. 1479192)
Right. Don't think that'll happen. Now, a flat tax, across the board, with the first, say, $35,000 exempt no exemptions, would be a good place to start.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: franq 5/28/2023 7:01:27 AM (No. 1479197)
Yes, and another guy was going to send Sir Edmund to prison. Mostly hot air, what these folks expel.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bad-hair 5/28/2023 7:03:36 AM (No. 1479201)
I came to the US (legally) in 1992, 30 years ago. I have been hearing this BS from Republicans EVERY election since then. Sure thing. Politicians are going to mess with their cash cow. Kinda like "repeartions".
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Reply 9 - Posted by: tisHimself 5/28/2023 7:07:12 AM (No. 1479202)
Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 was shot down by that year’s Ron DeSants, Mitt Romney. We had a president who simplified the IRS and the result was the greatest economy this country has witnessed. And then the next guy added 75000 agents to politicize the IRS. Big government needs big IRS. I don’t recall the previous Rove advised Republican administrations attacking the IRS, but I’m sure they are sincere this time around.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: FJB 5/28/2023 7:10:17 AM (No. 1479205)
Good plan, Ron. But it's still Donald's turn. MAGA
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Reply 11 - Posted by: RWPollock 5/28/2023 7:22:10 AM (No. 1479214)
At one time it was believed a flat tax based on income with a max of about 22% would bring in more money than the current tax plans. Not sure this was true or not but I remember reading this a while back. Would it put HR Block out of business?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: DW626 5/28/2023 9:00:34 AM (No. 1479268)
Yeah whatever. Talk is cheap. Taxes aren’t. You ain’t even got a 1% chance of getting elected to POTUS anyway or anyhow Ronny. Then neither does Trump or any other republican. At 61 years old, I never expect a republican to ever again be elected POTUS. And if one ever happens to be he, she, or it will be someone in the mold of a Romney/McCain/Bush…(expletive deleted) useless to our beloved Republic.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Lawsy0 5/28/2023 9:04:40 AM (No. 1479271)
Ron DeSainthood just said Abolish IRS to make Trump say the opposite. I tried to find the recent sound byte by DeSantis saying he wouldn't take Veep because he is only meant for executive leadership. That would be a great bumper sticker. If Trump would only stand his ground and let the Lord do his fighting!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Mcscow sailor 5/28/2023 9:07:57 AM (No. 1479275)
Most people are in favor of a flat income tax replacing the complexities of the current system. But, a flat tax falls heavily on low incomes. So, let’s exempt them (then it is no longer a flat tax). Then, the middle class looks at 22% and says whoa…that’s higher than what I pay. And the one percenters say yes, that’s less than I now pay. IMHO, a tax hike on the middle class, a tax decrease for the top tier, and zero tax for lower incomes is political suicide. It would damage charitable giving. Now retired, with some success I have income from a variety of sources. Each one is affected differently by current US tax code, and I need a tax program and hours of work to do my fed/state/local taxes. Yet, the 22% flat tax would effectively double my current effective tax rate. Not for me.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Gordon Mills 5/28/2023 9:18:45 AM (No. 1479287)
The pandering is getting huge quickly. There's not going to be much left to run on come 2024.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: smokincol 5/28/2023 9:26:53 AM (No. 1479292)
he can talk the talk all day long in his own state where he has a friendly legislature but dealing with the communists in D.C. is another story all together and if anyone thinks this election will be a fair election they had better take a look around, the demcommies cheated in 2020 and will in 2024 as has been shown, a president is, at the least, ineffective if he has no supporting power in the congress, the real story of 2024 is who will gain the majority in the House and Senate, if it's the demcommies we better start learning Chinese
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Reply 17 - Posted by: anniebc 5/28/2023 9:47:20 AM (No. 1479309)
The only thing I disliked about Herman Cain's 999 tax plan was it was too darn much. It should have been 222. We're taxed way too much, and the 999 figure is too high for the leftists and RINOs to keep inching up. Greedy people always want more.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Kate318 5/28/2023 10:31:59 AM (No. 1479351)
Yep, until he gets elected POTUS, and Mitch McConnell explains to him that they can’t get rid of the IRS as it is the main source of funding for the Deep State.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Pault135 5/28/2023 2:12:15 PM (No. 1479498)
#1: it’s good that in a discussion of an important topic like the future tax code you have put your finger on what is truly important.
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