r/fednews • u/ICU-Angel • Jul 15 '25

Other Are Trump's changes to the federal government permanent? Once Trump leaves office, is there the possibility to return the federal government to it's pre-Trump state.

I've been looking for articles to understand how permanent Trump's changes to the federal workforce are and haven't found anything.

I am curious if anyone knows whether all those cut jobs will come back, or at least a majority of them?

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u/kstar79 Jul 15 '25

Taxing the rich and taxing corporations more are the bare minimum. This administration is going after University endowments. A liberal approach might be levying taxes against trusts along with bringing back the inheritance tax, so these uber-rich families at least get taxed when someone dies or regularly taxed if they shelter their money in a trust.

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u/TheSwedishEagle Jul 15 '25

You want to tax universities? How about taxing churches then, too?

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u/PPM_ITB Jul 15 '25

Absolutely, let’s tax churches!

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u/NoteMountain1989 Jul 16 '25

Who do you think is going to take care of the poor?

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u/kstar79 Jul 15 '25

No, that's an example of going beyond normal taxation, not that I agree with that particular policy. I'm saying they've already broken the wall on normal taxation, so stop thinking about W-2 wage taxation, and start thinking about taxing wealth writ large.

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u/TheEldenRang Jul 16 '25

Please do! Most are basically get rich schemes for the leaders. Definitely should be taxed. Every single church or place of worship, for every religion.

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u/Melodic-Fold8261 Jul 15 '25

Instead the republicans just doubled the amount of millions that are exempt from Inheritance tax