‘How about just no tax?’ Trump mulls moving Biden’s 90K strong IRS army to defend border, or he may just fire them

President Donald J. Trump suggested that he could terminate the nearly 90,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents hired during the Biden administration or put them to better use by sending them to patrol the border with guns.

During a weekend stop in Las Vegas on his way back from observing the areas hit by devastating California wildfires, the nation’s 47th president was speaking to supporters at the Circa Resort & Casino when he dropped the bombshell.

“On day one, I immediately halted the hiring of any new IRS agents,” Trump said, drawing cheers from the crowd. “They hired, or tried to hire, 88,000 new workers to go after you, and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we’ll move them to the border.”

“I think we’re going to move them to the border,” he added. “Where they’re allowed to carry guns, you know, they’re so strong on guns, but these people are allowed to carry guns, so we’ll probably move them to the border.”

Some special IRS agents are allowed to pack heat according to IRS Code, 26 U.S. Code § 7608.

The ramping up of the IRS was among the most abusive moves by former President Joe Biden and created an army of federal bureaucrats to shake down hard-working middle-class Americans to fund his climate programs and other left-wing agenda items, an outrageous expansion of an agency that would be an integral tool for the one-party Democrat government that fortunately never came to fruition.

In 2022, Democrats passed the Orwellian-titled Inflation Reduction Act, a $750 billion monstrosity that had little to do with bringing prices down for Americans and was in actuality a Trojan Horse for the Green New Deal and other authoritarian measures with one of the most controversial being the beefing up of the IRS which received $80 billion to hire around 87,000 new agents.

The Saturday rally promoted Trump’s “No tax on tips” pledge that he made during the campaign, music to the ears of workers in a city that relies on the casino industry and its restaurants and hotels as its economic lifeblood.

“Any worker who relies on tips [as] income, your tips will be 100% yours,” Trump said.

In one of his first official acts after taking office, Trump issued an executive order freezing government agency hiring for 90 days, with the exception of the IRS which will remain frozen until the new administration “determines that it is in the national interest to lift the freeze.”

Trump has also floated the idea of doing away with the income tax entirely and announced his intention to create the External Revenue Service, a new agency that will be tasked with collecting money from foreign sources, including through the tariffs that are a key component of his economic policy.

“How about just no tax? You could do that,” he told the cheering Vegas crowd.  “You know if the tariffs work out like I think, a thing like that could happen, if you want to know the truth.”

“Years ago, 1870 to 1913, we didn’t have an income tax. We had, what we had is tariffs, where foreign countries came in and they stole our jobs, they stole our companies, they stole our product. They ripped us off. And, you know, they used to do numbers. And then we went to tariff, a tariff system. And the tariff system made so much money. It was when we were the richest from 1870 to 1930. Then we came in with the – brilliantly came in – with an income tax,” he continued.

“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” Trump said during his inaugural address. “It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury coming from foreign sources.”

Chris Donaldson

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