Re:FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to c...
by pjc50 on Friday March 14, 2025 @06:14PM
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> as if Trump declared people on his Friends List were exempt from taxes
I'll pencil that in for April. After all, the president can direct who is and is not prosecuted..
Re:FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to c...
by tempodox on Friday March 14, 2025 @06:36PM
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I was about to say, “don't give him any ideas”, but it probably wouldn't have mattered anyway.
Re:FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to c...
by jagged-chisel on Friday March 14, 2025 @06:14PM
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> … as if …
This hasn’t happened already?
Re:FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to c...
by Terr_ on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:03PM
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Not precisely: Trump fired so many people that the IRS can't check whether the rich are submitting fake paperwork to cheat on their taxes.
Related outcome, but different in mechanics/constitutionality.
[0] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-hamstrung-irs-is-a-gift...
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Re:FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to c...
by tremon on Friday March 14, 2025 @06:40PM
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No he didn't. If he had, you would have posted a credible link.
Re:FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds to c...
by kristjansson on Friday March 14, 2025 @07:24PM
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I hate that I know this, but he probably half remembered this conservative brainworm[1], the reality of which is “recently founded weirdo groups claiming nonprofit status are sketchy, get audited more, and the right has more of them”
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
More-importantly, it's nowhere close to "normal" try-to-reverts, where one President tries to replace an equally "soft" policy put in place by another President.
Here the newly-installed crooks are trying to deny a hard "money shall be spent on X" law passed by Congress, which is an unconstitutional attempt to seize the "power of the purse".
Same legal-vibes as if Trump declared people on his Friends List were exempt from taxes.