The Trump administration’s attempts to shake up the IRS could work against its goal of efficiency, @lorakelley.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.
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The goal isn’t about actual efficiency. The use of “efficiency” is a form of semantic infiltration. They know gutting the IRS’s ability to investigate the complex returns of billionaires is diminished. Functionaries will then audit poor and middle class people to show a work product.
Efficiency?!?
Trump’s massacre of the IRS has nothing to do with efficiency.
His massive cuts are about retribution.
The IRS audited more extremely wealthy tax cheats and reclaimed 1.3 billion dollars in unpaid taxes.
This is all about payback.
Efficiency? Please! Exposing data is not the goal either, IMO. Why? Our data is already out there due to data breaches, how many I can't count.The goal is to break the systems, cause chaos & prevent tax collection to bring down the Government. Putin must be very pleased with Krasnov.
WTF, you only figured that out it now - strip the IRS of its resources so it can’t investigate the top 1%.
Ask Al Capone and friends - who got them locked up.
Musk's interest in quashing investigations into his own misconduct -- together with protecting and expanding his own government contracts -- explains "what DOGE is up to" far better than any purported cost savings, "efficiency" gains, or "fraud" it is finding.
Firing the replacements for the aging workforce, the dingbats (technical term) fired the lower paid, trying to prove themselves, new hire replacements. This, OC, will justify an AI replacement supplied by a billionaire. ITM, it seems a great time to mimic fearless leader-be aggressive & pay less.
The only reason to decimate the IRS is because most MAGA voters don’t get a refund and Trump and his billionaire friends will not be audited. @nytimes.com @theatlantic.com @washingtonpost.com @cnbc.com
In one sense, all this FU is great, this 'administration' is going to show everybody just how out of their league they are...I'm patiently waiting for that train to hit the wall!
Is this headline a joke?? Their goal is not efficiency. It's the absence or inability of government regulation so the wealthy can just feed their greed and starve the poor people. Do better.
These guys are clowns. Blow up a rocket (or seven), no one cares. Crash your self-driving car on your test track a bunch of times, no one cares.
Existing systems like the IRS that millions use everyday. Screw with people’s money and/or lives, the smallest of glitches will have fire raining down.
Atlantic! Get it together. A headline like this implies that their actual goal is efficiency. Clearly it's not. I did not expect this kind of sane washing from your publication
Musk & his band of hackers DKS -
they're going to violate/expose millions of Americans to data theft -
massively screw up months & months worth of work
and eventually they'll walk away with an oops/sorry (maybe)
every harm - every crisis - every death belongs to
Trump & #Republicans 👿☠️
#MuckFusk
That's the thing. All of these amputational cuts dont make anything more efficient. Quite the opposite. Remember: their ultimate goal is to make the federal government so useless that we have to turn to private companies for help. Oligarchy.
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Trump’s massacre of the IRS has nothing to do with efficiency.
His massive cuts are about retribution.
The IRS audited more extremely wealthy tax cheats and reclaimed 1.3 billion dollars in unpaid taxes.
This is all about payback.
Said absolutely no one.
Ask Al Capone and friends - who got them locked up.
Musk's interest in quashing investigations into his own misconduct -- together with protecting and expanding his own government contracts -- explains "what DOGE is up to" far better than any purported cost savings, "efficiency" gains, or "fraud" it is finding.
Existing systems like the IRS that millions use everyday. Screw with people’s money and/or lives, the smallest of glitches will have fire raining down.
they're going to violate/expose millions of Americans to data theft -
massively screw up months & months worth of work
and eventually they'll walk away with an oops/sorry (maybe)
every harm - every crisis - every death belongs to
Trump & #Republicans 👿☠️
#MuckFusk