The New York Times acted like getting former IRS commissioners to bellyache over President Donald Trump’s cuts to one of the most hated agencies in Washington was some kind of a flex.
Commissioners from both Democratic and Republican administrations penned a February 24 guest essay lambasting Trump for daring to initiate cuts to the IRS workforce: “Trump Just Fired 6,700 I.R.S. Workers in the Middle of Tax Season. That’s a Huge Mistake.”
Former IRS chiefs Lawrence Gibbs, Fred T. Goldberg Jr., Charles Rossotti, Mark Everson, John Koskinen, Charles Rettig and Daniel Werfel were up in arms over Trump allegedly not comporting with normal CEO strategy to strip waste from the organization by “Tak[ing] an ax to accounts receivable, the part of an organization responsible for collecting revenue.”
Here’s the issue: Not every “organization” has a…
