The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt.
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/choosing-to-rebuild-state-capacity?r=slfke&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/choosing-to-rebuild-state-capacity?r=slfke&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Jacob Bogage
🚨NEWS: Massive layoffs are about to hit the IRS -- around 10,000 employees -- potentially in the middle of filing season.
Of particular interest to the DOGE: Cutting IRS enforcement capabilities.
-- with @jeffstein.bsky.social + Hannah Natanson
Of particular interest to the DOGE: Cutting IRS enforcement capabilities.
-- with @jeffstein.bsky.social + Hannah Natanson
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Just saying🤔😳🤣
But Elon Muck & DonOld make it really challenging to just strongly dislike them, rather than hating those motherf'ckers.
The world will be a better place without DonOld, and ...
Even Mnuchin, Trump’s first Treasury Secretary, wanted more, not less, IRS personnel. These people are morons!!!!
https://bsky.app/profile/jacobbogage.bsky.social/post/3li62cb76is2u
But we’ve always known the answer.
You sign up, they empty your bank account. You can’t say they’re not efficient.
Another gift to Trump’s wealthy donors who cheat on their taxes.
For those whose earnings comes primarily from payrolls, little enforcement manpower is required. Withholding tax and returns are computer verified.
Musk downloading USA data infrastructure to Tesla xAI Memphis TN
Tesla xAI training Large Language Models on USA data
Goal is govern USA via xAI intelligent agents & Trump EOs
X & crypto USA payment system => currency
I will let myself out.
Don’t let this erratic oligarch avoid paying Tesla taxes while cutting IRS!
enforcement or stiff penalties.
He’ll drain the treasury and convert it to crypto in his wallet soon.
If you are trying to reduce the deficit you don't reduce your income.
if you expect to owe, request an extension and delay your payment to the very last moment.
'Cause I'd be tempted to just quit working on principle than have to deal with that BS.
Careful what you wish for, Grover and friends.
"Great!"
"Well, first off, I'm going to drive my car into a ditch."
"What?! Why would you do that?"
"It costs too much"
"But how will you get to work?"
"I won't! I'll save so much on gas and food!"
"But they'll fire you!"
"THINK OF THE SAVINGS!"
#pushback #Trump #elonmusk #orangebaby #democracy
"In recent years, peak ROIs have ranged from 5 to 9. That is, a $1 increase in spending on the IRS’s enforcement activities results in $5 to $9 of increased revenues."
But DOGE wants to cut back on enforcement.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/choosing-to-rebuild-state-capacity?utm_source=publication-search
The American way of life now means
The world’s richest man’s machines
Can blow your job to smithereens
Like a bad sci-fi movie scene.
Drat!
But "the Treasury source confirmed that the main thing DOGE is asking for is extensive access to the tax agency’s information and internal systems. They’re just trying to snap up data right now."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-irs-extensive-system-access
“Hughes's OCD contributed to his success, but it also led to his withdrawal from public life. He spent his last years in hotel suites, watching the same films over and over.”