The $80B is new, and until recently they were understaffed and underfunded. It's like a poor person finally getting Section 8 housing, and then you turn around

The $80B is new, and until recently they were understaffed and underfunded. It's like a poor person finally getting Section 8 housing, and then you turn around and accuse them of being wasteful and inefficient with their spending, because they have a house so they clearly aren't as poor as they say. Also the $80B and 87k agents is slightly overstating what they are actually going to get. See e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/insider/2022/10/20/the-reality-of-increased-irs-funding https://www.forbes.com/sites/insider/2022/10/20/the-reality-.... Is it possible that the IRS lacks the engineering management expertise to build an effective in-house software team? Sure. Is it possible that they won't spend their money efficiently as a result? Sure. Is it possible that they'll hire B-grade programmers, because the top people won't want to move to some random suburb in MD to work for $120k/year? Sure. But to somehow accuse the IRS of having "massive" funding and imply that they are in fact well-supported is just disregarding the facts of recent history.