No College degree, no expertise in accounting.
While a REP he co-sponsored, in three consecutive sessions, a bill to abolish the IRS, the estate tax and gift tax.
His desire is to destroy the Humane Society.
In his private life he pushes problematic and illegal tax scams.
Howie Long would have been a better choice, and he likely has brain injuries from playing in the NFL.
He is absolutely positively the perfect choice for this job in the topsy turvy world of trumpland.
Opposition to improving the IRS’ audit capabilities is one of the greatest cons the Republicans have ever pulled.
It is very difficult for most wage earners to cheat at their taxes. 1099s show all their income (except under the table of course, but for most people that isn’t much) and more often than not their employers withhold MORE than they owe. That is to say, even if you audited the average (say) mechanic at the dealership, you won’t find much.
Of course, the rich have many, many ways to cheat the IRS. Well, you get it, I’m sure.
More or less true.
Very true.
Which is why the GOP hates the IRS.
Yep. They’re making him ambassador to Iceland. If Trump is an idiot the way some here think, it could be that being sent to Iceland was a pretty big insult. But I’d like it way more than heading up the IRS.
From the New York Times:
I don’t think he was trying to “cultivate a connection with the depleted and demoralized I.R.S. work force.”
I think he didn’t want them to do their job.
Perhaps he was a better person than people here are suggesting:
White House officials requested additional information on the taxpayers the IRS identified, the people said — specifically, if any of them had claimed the earned income tax credit, which can reduce the tax bill for some low-income filers. The IRS declined to provide that information, citing taxpayer privacy rights.
Long had previously told agency executives that his agency would not furnish confidential taxpayer information outside of the confines of the IRS’s agreement with DHS, the people said.
Still, the people did not know if tension over the IRS’s role in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive contributed to Long’s departure from the IRS.
IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted
The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.
Because that would be illegal.
Even the Nixon Doctrine* wouldn’t help, because a minion obeying an objectively illegal order would be cheerfully hung out to dry, and Long knows it.
*“Well, when the president does it … that means that it is not illegal.”