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gab13by13

(21,360 posts)
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 10:08 AM Jul 2022

Trump never gets investigated.

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.

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Walleye

(31,028 posts)
2. They constantly accused Democrats of doing that very thing. Which is why they try to weaken IRS
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 10:10 AM
Jul 2022

It’s the excuse they use anyway. They really want freedom to evade taxes

gab13by13

(21,360 posts)
7. I believe they have gutted the IRS,
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 10:35 AM
Jul 2022

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.

Walleye

(31,028 posts)
9. I agree. And the problem just snowballs and gets more obvious.
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 10:37 AM
Jul 2022

They enjoy all the benefits and opportunities of the United States and don’t 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. What’s really bad is they justify their greed with some sort of political theory. Laissez-faire capitalism or some such shit

TheRealNorth

(9,481 posts)
15. Part of their plan
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 11:00 AM
Jul 2022

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.

Novara

(5,844 posts)
10. Why the fuck hasn't Biden replaced the trumper IRS director yet?
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 10:44 AM
Jul 2022

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)
11. POTUS and vpotus returns are always audited. Mandatory review.
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 10:46 AM
Jul 2022

4.8.4.2 (05-20-2014)
Cases Subject to Mandatory Review

Cases subject to mandatory review include:
Joint Committee—IRM 4.36, Joint Committee Procedures
Employee audits—IRM 4.2.6, Examination of Employee Returns
Individual income tax returns for the President and Vice President—IRM 4.2.1.15(8), Processing Returns and Accounts of the President and Vice President
Jeopardy and Termination—IRM 4.8.8.7, Jeopardy and Terminations


https://www.irs.gov/irm/part4/irm_04-008-004

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,492 posts)
13. Maybe some of the banks tRump is indebted to are pulling some really big strings.
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 10:52 AM
Jul 2022

Perhaps they're providing the Teflon for Teflon Don....... ......

gab13by13

(21,360 posts)
16. What is scary,
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 11:01 AM
Jul 2022

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?

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