Commerce Secretary Lutnick: President Trump’s Goal Is To Eliminate The IRS

BREAKING: The Senate just voted to confirm Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary.

Lutnick is one of the forces pushing President Trump to eliminate the income tax and fund the government using tariffs. DO IT, MR. SECRETARY!

My confidence in Lutnick is very high because Democrats… pic.twitter.com/tuATxFA0Sv

— George (@BehizyTweets) February 18, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Commerce Secretary @howardlutnick says get ready — your tax rates, interest rates, and mortgage rates are going to come hammering down. pic.twitter.com/p2h6jzqU9h

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) February 20, 2025

? COMMERCE SEC. LUTNICK: “President Trump’s goal is to ELIMINATE the Internal Revenue Service and let outsiders pay.”

LFG! ABOLISH IRS! ?

“Imagine a Democrat Senator going against that? What planet are they on?” pic.twitter.com/iLWzPuh0hH

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 20, 2025

JUST IN: Woman has meltdown because Trump shut down her job where she studied “how to safely collect s*xual orientation and gender identity” practices.

Lmao. You literally can’t tell what’s a parody anymore.

“I was told to stop work immediately and that no more research… pic.twitter.com/fdOBSHMEP2

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 19, 2025

JUST IN: Senate has confirmed Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary, 51 to 45.

Lutnick lost over 650 friends, family members & employees in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001.

This is one of the most powerful stories you’ll ever hear.pic.twitter.com/qLvS79f5A4

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 18, 2025

Unpopular opinion.

I like Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Axios:

“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Wednesday evening President Trump’s goal is to “abolish” the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The big picture: Lutnick’s remarks on Fox News, which come as the IRS is reportedly poised to lay off thousands of workers, build on a pledge Trump made to create an “External Revenue Service” to oversee tariffs and other potential foreign revenue.

Trump has also floated the idea of abolishing federal income taxes as part of his plans of “tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.” …”

New York Times:

“The Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s push to downsize the federal work force, three people familiar with the agency’s plans said.

The terminations will target relatively recent hires at the I.R.S., which the Biden administration had attempted to revitalize with a surge of funding and new staff, the people said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The Trump administration has begun laying off probationary employees — who do not enjoy as much job protection as their more tenured colleagues — across the federal government in recent days. …”

Kyle Kulinksi will react to this by screaming about “fascism” a dozen times.

The following excerpt comes from Robert W. Merry’s book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century

“It was a burgeoning nation, full of zest and optimism, that bestowed the mantle of leadership upon William McKinley on that crisp March day. Not even the 1893 Panic, which still dampened commerce, could seriously erode the American sense of opportunity. The U.S. population had nearly doubled since 1870, to 75 million, with fully two-thirds of the increase coming from native births, the rest from immigration. The industrial era was generating an economic bustle in America that was recognized throughout the world as a rare phenomenon. When Democratic critics chided Republicans during the Harrison administration for fostering the nation’s first billion-dollar budget, Tom Reed dismissed the disparagement with characteristic disdain. “Yes,” he said, “but this is a billion dollar country.”

The billion-dollar country outpaced all others in steel production, in its timber harvest, in meatpacking, and in the mining of silver, gold, iron, and coal. The fervor of production was pushing America into the world in search of markets. In the thirty-six years leading to McKinley’s inauguration, exports tripled, and the country’s trade activity now surpassed that of all other nations save Great Britain. What’s more, America led the way in the development of life-transforming inventions, including the internal combustion engine, incandescent light, the telephone, steam-powered ocean vessels, moving pictures, radio telegraphy, the phonograph, and more.

America had been from its inception a nation of vast designs, driven by an impulse to consolidate its position across the North American midsection – purchasing the vast Louisiana expanse in 1805, negotiating possession of Florida in 1819, annexing Texas in 1845, acquiring much of Oregon Territory in 1846, and conquering lands in 1848 that would become its southwestern domain. “For nearly three centuries,” wrote historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893, the “dominant fact in American life has been expansion.” …

Whatever course America pursued, and whatever McKinley’s national plans might be, nothing took precedence over the need to attack what the Washington Post called the country’s “industrial distress and financial embarrassment.” No one was surprised that the new president’s central economic aim would be restoring the McKinley tariffs, which had averaged nearly 50 percent on finished and semifinished importats.

That had been shaved to 42 percent during the second Cleveland administration by the so-called Wilson-Gorman bill, and McKinley believed no economic resurgence could happen until his rates once again prevailed through adoption of something approaching the House-passed Dingley bill of 1895. Besides, the economic downturn had produced a federal budget deficit of 70 million dollars, which also required attention. McKinley’s answer was a big increase in import taxes.”

Lutnick is correct.

Liberals look at Gilded Age America as hopelessly backward and corrupt, but this was a country with no federal income tax, no schlerotic bureaucracy with countless thousands of worthless make work jobs for political hacks, a country where a $70 million dollar budget deficit was a huge problem, where we ran trade surpluses with other nations, where a budget surplus was viewed as a political problem, where we led the world in the innovations that made the 20th century possible. Today, we have a national debt of $36 TRILLION DOLLARS, which grows by about a trillion dollars every 100 days.

In order to fund our bloated government, we tax Americans at home while encouraging foreigners to export their products here tax free, which encourages corporations to relocate production abroad. We export prosperity abroad with a tax and trade policy subordinated to our foreign policy. What has mattered in Washington for decades is maintaining the so-called “rules-based international order.”