GOP Demand FREE SERVICES be Cut on DAY 1 EXPOSED…
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Why are MAGA Republicans targeting the IRS free direct‑file service?
I want to share with you another item that MAGA Republicans are targeting for Donald Trump to cut and get rid of on day one. It is direct filing with the IRS. Yep, the IRS's new free tax filing service, otherwise known as direct filing. file MAGA Republicans say should be eliminated right away. Why? Because it helps people, it's free, and the MAGA Republicans have been lobbied by industry tax consultants who say that this is hurting their business. I want to read for you a letter sent by 27 Republicans to Donald Trump. This is something that Trump will likely do and his new IRS Commissioner MAGA Republican, Billy Long, will do. But I want to show you, it's important that we discuss this in detail, So you understand exactly what's going on here.
So here's the news. MAGA Republicans Adrian Smith and Chuck Edwards wrote Trump a letter today urging him to terminate the IRS's new free tax filing service, otherwise known as direct file on day one through an executive order. It's co-signed by 27 House Republicans. Democratic Congress member Don Boyer says direct file is a clear success story of making government better. The IRS made a free, easy to use way to file taxes directly. People who use it love it. But wealthy corporate donors are losing money. So Republicans are trying to kill the program and make filing taxes harder for the rest of us, not the billionaires who can have their fancy accountants. Elizabeth Warren previously wrote, shocker, the CEO of Intuit, the owner of TurboTax, doesn't want you to know that they're lobbying to make your life harder.
So much so that they asked a podcast to delete part of his interview. Give me a break. Whether he likes it or not, the IRS is or at that point was expanding free direct file. And the news at that time in October was a corporate public relations firm for TurboTax berated a journalist for asking a tough but fair question about the company's lobbying against free online tax filing and then demanded that the outlet delete that part of the podcast. I just want to show you this letter from the MAGA Republicans because this highlights yet another example of where Democrats have worked to make government work for we, the people, whereas Democrats are focusing on what can be delivered for us. the rest of us, the MAGA Republicans are saying that's what needs to be targeted.
I've done lots of other videos, of course, on MAGA Republicans attacking Social Security, attacking Medicare, attacking veterans benefits, right? That's the first thing that MAGA Republicans do when they get into power. The first thing Trump wants to do when he gets in power is attack vulnerable people, attack their services that they've paid into and attack services that help them while giving tax cuts to billionaires who then inflate their net worth by hundreds of billions of dollars, quite literally hundreds of billions of dollars. Let's take a look at this letter. This is from Adrian Smith and the MAGA Republicans to Donald Trump. Dear Trump, We write to urge you to take immediate action, including but not limited to a day one executive order to end the Internal Revenue Services unauthorized and wasteful direct file pilot program.
The program's creation and ongoing expansion pose a threat to taxpayers' freedom from government overreach and its rollout and structural flaws have already come at a steep price. Pause there. I wanted to read you this letter so you see the language that they use. Free filing for people is a threat and attack of government overreach. I just want you to see how these spoiled, entitled, oligarchical proxies behave and the language they use to screw us, to screw you. Let's take a look at it. As you know, during the last tax year, the IRS rolled out its direct file pilot program in 12 states through which taxpayers file their taxes directly to the IRS instead of through trusted accountants or reputable third party preparation services.
under the guise of offering a convenient, free-to-file alternative preparation service, the IRS itself asserts itself as the tax assessor, collector, preparer, and enforcer all in one.
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