On top of the blatant privacy law violations, this is another indication that the deficit—the supposed reason for all the draconian cuts—is going to explode because the agency charged with tax enforcement is in shambles and led by incompetents on partisan missions. - ThreadSky

maxkennerly.bsky.social • 5 days ago

On top of the blatant privacy law violations, this is another indication that the deficit—the supposed reason for all the draconian cuts—is going to explode because the agency charged with tax enforcement is in shambles and led by incompetents on partisan missions.

Reposted from Phil Lewis

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little-thieves.com•4 days ago

Remember, it’s not the working class who will be able to avoid taxes like the rich people. We all got W-2s filed by employers, so they have all that information on us. They don’t have that with the rich-o’s

trudymiller.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is undoubtedly true in a Platonic sense but we will no longer know what the actual deficit in any case. No stats coming from this administration can be trusted.

chrisjustice01.bsky.social•5 days ago

🎯💯

angold.bsky.social•4 days ago

Don't forget that tariffs are a Swiss Army knife. It's like Chris Rock's old bit on Robitussin. In addition to coughs, tariffs can cure deficits, eliminate taxes, balance trade, improve negotiating positions, and most importantly, implode our economy.

cminga.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh strange, billionaires are destroying the IRS making it so they only have the staff to investigate anybody who makes less than $500,000 a year? what a surprise!

cdbrow1.bsky.social•5 days ago

Of course they did not want actually to save money - they wanted to kill government.

cminga.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump and Musk don’t want to kill the government! That would put both grifters in the poor house! They just want to destroy the government’s ability to make them follow any laws.

kcmcarpenter.bsky.social•4 days ago

And likely to lose $60 billion annually in federal tax revenues by frightening a significant tax base into hiding.. a tax base extremely unlikely to ever be able to tap the $25 billion they contribute each year to social security, underwriting retirement for the rest of us. https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/

eugenepeabody.bsky.social•4 days ago

If all the workers leave the US then the tax revenues will drop.

dahoovster.bsky.social•5 days ago

1) claim you need more revenue, your budget is dying
2) fire all of accounts receivable
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Profit?

thecrossfader.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump is treating the country like Andrew Jackson treated the Cherokee.

smj0791.bsky.social•4 days ago

So much winning 🤦🏻‍♀️

johncairns.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, who was that clown that said he wanted to make government so small you could drown it in a bathtub? Think about the level of sociopathy that has someone coming up with that sort of analogy.

okay.condition.rocks•5 days ago

Grover Norquist, and yes he is a real piece of shit.

nojustdan.bsky.social•4 days ago

He often gave lectures at the Heritage Foundation.

sisu4democracy.bsky.social•4 days ago

At what point are the citizens going to retake these institutions?

5thonthe4th.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wait…wut? When the Director of the IRS resigns because the federal government might be getting too handsy with our tax info, we’ve crossed the threshold into Bizzaro World. I mean, do you know how nasty it has to be to give IRS the moral cringe?

4quad.bsky.social•4 days ago

He's said many times he intends to default.

funkdr.bsky.social•4 days ago

And without the will or resources to enforce the tax code on the biggest earners and corporations, the IRS will increasingly rely on things like correspondence audits on the working class

shannonasmith.bsky.social•4 days ago

And on top of that they are kidnapping huge numbers of immigrants who pay taxes (plus the additional 100s of thousands who aren’t coming in (legally or undocumented)

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