GOP in Congress urge shutdown of tax-collecting IRS

[left-of-center2012]

The Republican Study Committee, which counts over two-thirds of House of Representatives Republicans as its members, called recently for "the complete elimination of the IRS."
The committee's support for this idea, once confined to the fringes of conservative ideology, suggests it is more widely accepted on Capitol Hill than ever.

... the committee says simply: "This proposal takes the bold step of calling for the complete elimination of the IRS. Tax collection and enforcement activities would be moved to a new, smaller and more accountable department at the Treasury."
No further specifics were offered for how to replace an agency that is already part of Treasury, collected $3.3 trillion in revenue in 2015, and processed 240 million tax returns.

Congress has cut the IRS's budget 17 percent in real terms since 2010 ...
Republican Representative Rob Woodall of Georgia has introduced a bill every year since he entered Congress in 2011 to eliminate income taxes and abolish the IRS.
Support for Woodall's bill has grown to 73 co-sponsors, including the heads of the House tax and budget committees, but it has never advanced.

(So, how would Republicans fund the U.S. government? Just like their plans to eliminate Obamacare, they have nothing with which to replace it.)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taxes-congress-idUSKCN0XT0TF

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. So how do those idiots expect to get paid?

[left-of-center2012]

2. I suspect they already get more $$$ from lobbyists

Add payment for speeches, etc to fund their votes.

[Shrike47]

3. The lobbyists and corporate donors, as usual. The paycheck is just an addendum.

[safeinOhio]

4. End taxes, big military build up

And balance the budget. Sounds to good to be true.

[Takket]

5. I assume they would propose a flat tax, which requires no IRS.

They use the elimination of the IRS as a selling point, the citizens cheer with glee... until they find out too late why the GOP wants a flat tax

[Egnever]

7. Even a flat tax would require a collection agency.

[procon]

6. Without all the federal tax money pouring in to prop up the red states

those Republican legislatures would be crying poor and demanding their share. Republicans love to brag about their low tax states with no health and safety regulations, and schools on the cheap where an "A" is the equivalent of a "D+" in other states. Its the biggest scam in the country where they fill in their annual revenue short falls with money sucked in from taxpayers in the more prosperous blue states. And why fund clean air and water programs or first responders when they can get the feds to pick up the tab and do the remedial work.

Republicans aren't stupid. OK, they're not smart either, but they really excel at being outstanding crooks, cheats and conmen.