Maybe you disagree with the suggestion that there are way, way bigger fish to fry, and we should prioritize our limited resources accordingly. But to say that it’s “completely ridiculous?” That’s a little over the top.
The bug is in the code, the interface with international trade. It's allowing many orders of magnitude more tax to disappear than the pesky unemployment fraud code.
So no, I think his analogy is solid, the requirements are clear, the implementation is at fault.
The law is quite clear on fraud.
In the analogy the law is the requirements, enforcement is the implementation. You don’t like the requirements, sure. The implementation is still broken because it doesn’t address the fraud. It can’t do anything about the requirements because those are outside the scope of things that can be changed by the implementor.
The analogy is absolutely shit because it presumes the same actor writing the code can change the requirements, which is not true in software engineering nor in the US government.
To your code profiling analogy, we’ve seen a problem and the solution proposed is just to buy more hardware to workaround it.
Yes, that makes it worse, unless you think the poor can afford to do a lot of lobbying for more favorable tax laws.
I’m all for passing laws to repeal tax exemptions but that has jack shit to do with massive fraud.
You don’t encourage reproduction to deal with a murder problem.