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I mean, FBI Director James Comey and his deputy Andrew Mccabe both had their 2017 and 2019 taxes audited by the IRS, both men were hated by Donald Trump. The NY Times puts the odds at these audits happening randomly at 1 in 30,000.
Is there no fucking way anyone can investigate if these audits were initiated by Trump? Does anyone give a shit?
Comey actually got a bit more than 300 dollars back and McCabe had to pay in a small amount.
This would be MSM news if a Democrat were president at the time. If there are Trump people working at IRS who are abusing their positions, can they not be weeded out?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/comey-mccabe-faced-rare-intensive-tax-audits-by-irs-under-trump-appointee-report/ar-AAZibD3?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=858c7d941ae44053af6e41dbd2de185e
I guaran-fucking-tee that Vegas would have odds less than 30,000 to 1 that Trump was involved.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)The net is closing in on him....
OLDMDDEM
(1,575 posts)I believe he is being investigated in ways we don't know about.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)Its the excuse they use anyway. They really want freedom to evade taxes
gab13by13
(21,360 posts)the odds of rich people being audited have gone way down. The thing is those audits put millions of dollars in the treasury.
Thom Hartman says that one of the biggest threats to our democracy is not taxing the rich.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,399 posts)Walleye
(31,028 posts)They enjoy all the benefits and opportunities of the United States and dont wanna pay for it. They want to have the most powerful military in the world but not pay a dime. I am tired of these rich tightwads. Whats really bad is they justify their greed with some sort of political theory. Laissez-faire capitalism or some such shit
gab13by13
(21,360 posts)the rich live under Socialism.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)Push out the mostly nonpartisan civil servants (aka the "Deep State" and put in people who will do your bidding. This is how the Nazis took over most of Germany's government (the German military largely avoided this fate by agreeing to support Hitler. This is part of the reason why Hitler took out the SA - because the Brownshirts and people like Rohm wanted to be in charge of the army.
spanone
(135,844 posts)gab13by13
(21,360 posts)Novara
(5,844 posts)For the same damn reason he hasn't worked to get rid of DeJoy? I know the USPS board of governors have to vote him out but Biden can express a goddamned opinion about getting him cleared out of the USPS. And his opinion carries weight, if he dared express it.
I see these people as cancers in these institutions and they must be excised.
unblock
(52,253 posts)4.8.4.2 (05-20-2014)
Cases Subject to Mandatory Review
Cases subject to mandatory review include:
Joint CommitteeIRM 4.36, Joint Committee Procedures
Employee auditsIRM 4.2.6, Examination of Employee Returns
Individual income tax returns for the President and Vice PresidentIRM 4.2.1.15(8), Processing Returns and Accounts of the President and Vice President
Jeopardy and TerminationIRM 4.8.8.7, Jeopardy and Terminations
https://www.irs.gov/irm/part4/irm_04-008-004
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Perhaps they're providing the Teflon for Teflon Don....... ......
gab13by13
(21,360 posts)Our Local Union pissed off our International Union because we found a way to keep the International from taking Local dues when a factory is shut down, we put the majority of our money in an irrevocable trust.
Low and behold our Local was audited two times within 3 years and I was the recording Secretary. I had to have a motion on the books for every dime we spent. Our local union had as high as 1,300 members at one time. Our Local union passed both audits with flying colors. I still to this day wonder if someone from the International pushed the audits?
Emile
(22,790 posts)to be more than weeded out. They need to go to prison!