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  As Republicans hold our economy hostage with the debt ceiling, MAGA Republicans will demand cuts to Social Security and Medicare, the programs they like to call “entitlements” that Americans have paid into for decades.
  Remember in 2017 when Mnuchin said Trump’s tax cuts for the rich and corporations would pay for themselves? Spoiler alert; they didn’t.  The tax cuts significantly increased our national deficit. But Republicans will conveniently leave this information out as they crash our economy to the ground.  Should we balance our budget? Yes, but in a responsible way, and not on the backs of senior citizens and veterans.
  Now Republicans want to abolish the IRS and income taxes.  Do they even know what income taxes fund?  National defense, veterans benefits, law enforcement, interest on national debt, income security … 
  Republicans are playing chicken with our economy and it’s a dangerous game.  Remember that Steve Bannon was very clear in 2017 when he said their goal is deconstruction of the administrative state. These Republicans want to destroy the federal government and any safety nets it provides to the American people. Make no mistake. This is the GOP’s goal.
context: If they hate taxes so much why didn’t they eliminate them when they had control under Trump? >
  
  Because it is all performance. They kbow there is no chance this passes in the senate. So they can pretend they are doing this, without actually doing anything. >
  
  Exactly this. They know they have no legislation that could actually achieve the abolishing of the IRS, let alone the intellectual capacity to write the bill.
  Then they would actually have to pass the bill, which means accepting responsibility for votes, and taking the time to do it. The 2017 TCJA was a bunch of prescripted bills put together by the Real Estate lobby.  
  Who would think, allowing rich people to get tax deductions for owning multiple homes in a  corporate trust, would cause a housing shortage?  Corporations also have foreign investors,  so many US homes are sitting in corporate trusts called Real Estate Investment Trusts, where foreign corporations are getting tax breaks on owning residential property in the United States. 
  Republicans have sold out the country in more ways than one can imagine.