Chris Matthews: Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are "traitorous" for trying to abolish the IRS

[seraphson]

h/t MFP

Gee Chris oh how I wonder how many middle class Americans would disagree with you.

I mean, if I were to guess I would probably say one or two...hundred...million.

 

[puppetmaster]

There were a lot of traitors and that helped form this place we call home.....

 

[bunklocoempire]

Atta boy Chris -you like that the Civil War is perpetual and you're naturally demanding that peacenik-freemen share the cost with war mongering slaves of the state.

I'd expect nothing less coming from those flapping thin red worms on your face. Misery loves company -and you're miserable.

 

[jmdrake]

Thank you Chris Matthews for improving Rand's credibility with anyone who dislikes the IRS which is 80% or more of the voting public.

That said, how does a flat tax, especially one that continues with deductions, abolish the IRS? Somebody has to collect all this money. Smaller IRS yes. And if there are charitable deductions, then there are still people who have to decide what constitutes a charity, which is the heart of the current IRS scandal. (That and election law). Still....Chris does raise the point of what the real question is. What kind of federal government do we really need? If it was shrunk to proper size we might not need any individual income tax, flat or otherwise.

 

[ObiRandKenobi]

That said, how does a flat tax, especially one that continues with deductions, abolish the IRS? Somebody has to collect all this money.

I think he means abolish the IRS as we know it today. Obviously some form of it will still exist under his plan.

So kind of like Greece, not Carthage.

 

[anaconda]

Is there more than 34 seconds to this video?

 

[tasteless]

NSA spying on Americans, drone strikes killing Americans without due process, military deploying without a declaration of war? OK.

Wanting to end the fed? Traitorous.

 

[Legend1104]

Hahahahahaha....don't you just love how these guys throw around these words like traitor because they hope people are too stupid to know what they really mean?! Oh wait... well I guess he is right. Most people don't. Well played Matthews.