By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-12 13:34:44 | Updated at 2024-12-12 16:02:30
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Elon Musk asks if the IRS should be ‘deleted’ after agency begs for $20 billion – here’s how X users responded
New York Post ^ | Nov. 27, 2024, | Victor Nava
Posted on 12/12/2024 5:31:49 AM PST by george76
Elon Musk asked social media users Wednesday if the Internal Revenue Service should be “deleted” — a day after a top Biden-Harris administration official urged Congress to give the federal agency $20 billion.
“The IRS just said it wants $20B more money,” Musk, who will co-lead informal Department of Government Efficiency under President-elect Donald Trump, wrote on X.
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Only 3.9% said the federal agency’s budget should remain the same, 5.6% felt it deserved more money and 29.9% said the IRS budget should be decreased.
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The Tesla CEO’s tweet follows Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo making a desperate public plea for billions of dollars in more funding for the IRS.
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The massive shortfall appears to be the result of text included in stopgap congressional legislation passed in September to keep the federal government funded until Dec. 20.
Congressional Republicans have tucked a $20 billion IRS enforcement cut into the government funding legislation
The world’s richest person then asked users for their thoughts on the tax authority’s budget situation.
“Do you think its budget should be: Increased, Same, Decreased, Deleted,” Musk asked in a poll.
More than 60% of X users preferred having the IRS’s budget “deleted.”
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The SpaceX founder and X owner has already pledged to cut the bloated federal budget by “at least $2 trillion.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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