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Posted By: OhioNick, 1/14/2025 5:45:04 PM

Donald Trump announced the creation of a powerful new government agency that will collect billions of dollars in taxes and tariffs from foreign countries. The brand new agency - cleverly titled the External Revenue Service - does the exact opposite of the already established Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which taxes Americans. It's the second department that Trump has unilaterally created after tapping billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE. ‘I am today announcing that I will create the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources,’ Trump wrote on social media.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: voxpopuli 1/14/2025 5:57:38 PM (No. 1873588)
great idea.. and cut off FUNDING to most of these dictatorships
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 1/14/2025 5:59:45 PM (No. 1873590)
FTA- "Trump argued that the United States government has relied too much on taxing Americans for revenue, specifically pointing to the much-loathed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) efforts to collect more taxes. ‘Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the World, while taxing ourselves. It is time for that to change,’ he wrote." Interesting forward-looking thinking, Mr. President. Let's see where this takes us.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 1/14/2025 6:25:43 PM (No. 1873601)
Betting any revenue the ERS takes in will just be used on new spending and we will be deeper in debt. Seriously doubt this is the answer to anything. New taxation. I can see the Democrats getting behind this. Ah bipartisanship.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: seamusm 1/14/2025 6:42:47 PM (No. 1873607)
And beyond new federal employees, EXACTLY how will this be different from existing tariff collection processes?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 1/14/2025 6:58:51 PM (No. 1873610)
Already, two new government agencies. Not sure I'm liking this. What happens after Trump is gone and the Federal bureaucracy falls back into democrats' hands? Will DOGE and ERS become just additional bloated agencies, costing us more and more tax dollars every year with no additional return? How about eliminating the DOE (both of them) first?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: tootall 1/15/2025 10:44:35 AM (No. 1873982)
And I read that DJT will address DAVOS in a video mtg next week. Should be interesting. I don't think these One World Order types can bribe him the way they could Biden, Clinton, and to be forthright and direct, most of the rest of Congress.
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