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Trump names Billy Long (Auctioneer) IRS head

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by PITBOSS, Dec 6, 2024.

  1. Dec 6, 2024 #1
    PITBOSS

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    Trumps nominated an IRS commish. I don’t understand MAGA’s stance on not wanting to pay taxes. no one enjoys it, but taxes are necessary to keep the country running.




    “Trump is flooding the zone with so many terrible nominations that you may have missed the president-elect recently picked former Rep. Billy Ling of Missouri to be the next commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service,

    Long was “an anti-tax huckster who doesn’t think the IRS should exist,” and “makes his living promising to cut your tax bill 40 percent.

    Long does not have a college degree, although he briefly attended the University of Missouri before dropping out in 1976. He later completed an auction training program at the Missouri Auction School

    He has made frequent appearances on Fox News with Tucker Carlson while trying to step into the political limelight and also served as a talk show host on KWTO AM 560”

    'Fox to guard the chicken coop': Writer says Trump's IRS will be a 'grifter’s paradise'

    Trump names Billy Long as IRS head
     
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  2. Dec 6, 2024 #2
    sierragator

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    sidenote on Long. I attended an exchange club meeting where he was present and ended up at the same table. We got to talking about football and how he was a big mizzou fan. When I told him I was a Gator, his response was " you have a football team?" This was after we had won three nattys. and the horse he rode in on.
     
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  3. Dec 6, 2024 #3
    docspor

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    dang! Trump's gonna be mo better than Reagan.....at increasing our debt. yep, BIG GOV RONNIE is by far the biggest gov prez of our lifetimes. but, but, but.....
     
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  4. Dec 6, 2024 #4
    gator_jo

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    Hmm. Donald Trump appointed another unqualified crony, whose primary attribute seems to be enabling Trump to break the law.

    I'm starting to think that he really doesn't care about his job to oversee the government in bettering the lives of the American people.....
     
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  5. Dec 6, 2024 #5
    Trickster

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    Un-be-lieve-able! Even the dumbest MAGA Cult member must think this is absurd.
     
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  6. Dec 6, 2024 #6
    docspor

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    the smartest prob doesn't even know what the irs is.
     
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  7. Dec 6, 2024 #7
    slocala

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    Unqualified meritocracy.
     
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  8. Dec 6, 2024 #8
    ursidman

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    Wasn’t he the guy in a House hearing where some protestors tried to disrupt the hearing by shouting and chanting and he grabbed the microphone and went into his auctioneer cadence that so stunned all present that the protesters just stopped?
     
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  9. Dec 7, 2024 #9
    vaxcardinal

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    Wonder how fast he can read the tax code
     
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  10. Dec 7, 2024 #10
    g8orbill

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    AgingGator

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    I don’t inherently mind paying taxes until I see the ridiculous ways that the government spends the money.
     
  12. Dec 7, 2024 #12
    Emmitto

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    Yes. It was Laura Loomer he spoke over.

    So he may be an autofail otherwise, but running Laura Loomer out of at least temporary existence is a major resume booster for 100% of people.
     
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  13. Dec 7, 2024 #13
    ursidman

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    I automatically like him
     
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  14. Dec 7, 2024 #14
    PetrolGator

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    Kakistocracy.

    Elect a clown and expect a circus.
     
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  15. Dec 7, 2024 #15
    citygator

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    That’s funny. Idiots elected an idiot to appoint idiots. This is amazing to watch.
     
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  16. Dec 7, 2024 #16
    okeechobee

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    Sounds like a logical choice to me.