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IRS to fire 6,700 staff

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It is interesting for a targeted campaign like this administration's—which claims to be concerned with government waste and inefficiency—to cut employees for one of the only organizations that we know causes decreased revenues for the federal government when it receives cuts in funding [1].

Of course, it's not like they're implementing any sort of new policies to make sure productivity in the IRS remains the same. I'm not sure why we'd expect anything less at this point.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60037

That plus we know Trump and IRS are not best friends...

It's not targeted. It's a blanket destruction of the nation. It is carpet bombing.

I agree with you—destruction of bureaucracy with no plan is a recipe for disaster. I only meant to take the administration at it's word for a moment.

Because it's all about libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, utopian ambitions like Curtis Yarvin where all government is "the problem" without evidence or admission of reality.

Insofar as you're tariff-ing everything that moves, the less you particularly care about internal revenue. The endgame is to eliminate the income tax entirely anyway, so why would one want the IRS at all?

No severance per reddit chatter [0]. Given that job safety was one of the big things drawing accountants to IRS this is certainly a unique approach. Especially for the organization supposed to be bringing in the $$$.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Accounting/comments/1itisph/irs_lai...

Interesting, I wish there was something like DOGE in my country as well. So much government spending that is ridiculous, unnecessary and wasteful.

As an example of that, we (Sweden) have an unemployment agency (as one of many, many examples), that employs over 15k individuals but only is involved in less than 2% of all the job offers [1]. You could easily cut 98% of the work force and it would literally be no difference in the outcome. Just cut the shit, have a few programmers around to have a digital job board and be done with it.

[1]: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/7035131

Unfortunately, the chances that DOGE's actions are about cutting unnecessary staff are vanishingly remote. They did not even have the wherewithal to check that the contracts they cancelled were for the amounts their hot take made them think, or double-check the list before publishing it, or not fire departments they had to immediately re-hire. They're much more consistent with DOGE cutting anything they don't understand, or is standing in the way of Musk and other billionaires' total power grab.

Well that is your opinion and as a tax payer that pays like 60% tax I strongly disagree with your opinion and applaud DOGE and would vote to bring a similar system to my country.

You're welcome to come to ours, since you're so enamored with this corruption. Mark my words, this is all about corruption and nothing about savings.

I'm sure your country has domestic Nazis you can use for this. You don't need the one we borrowed from South Africa.

Shhh! Let them have Musk!

Forget gold, time to start investing in lead.

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