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One of the major parties is deliberately sabotaging it (along with USPS, FDA, and NOAA) so they can point out how useless it is and it should just be shut down.
by genter 2y ago
One of the major parties is deliberately sabotaging it (along with USPS, FDA, and NOAA) so they can point out how useless it is and it should just be shut down.
- lesuorac 2y ago[flagged]
- davidw 2y agoThey got wait times down: https://apnews.com/article/filing-season-irs-tax-day-taxpayer-4ad340b6dc83b4b4dce89658eda7bbd1 https://apnews.com/article/filing-season-irs-tax-day-taxpaye...
- akkartik 2y ago(Off-topic but I like your username: https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel)
- lesuorac 2y agoWell, thats very close but I had a different carousel in mind when I reversed the spelling. You're the first person (afaik) to have figured out the name without it being explained to them though.
- fvrghl 2y agoA majority doesn't mean much these days. A supermajority is necessary to get things passed that the other side doesn't agree with [1]. The democrats haven't had a supermajority since 2011 [2]. [1] https://www.governing.com/context/how-did-the-senate-end-up-with-supermajority-gridlock https://www.governing.com/context/how-did-the-senate-end-up-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress
- lesuorac 2y agoMajority means as much as they want it to. The Cloture Rule is just a rule and such is modifiable with a simple majority (>50%) and has been rather recently so that judicial appointments could be made without needing 2/3 to override a filibuster. If Democrats wanted to actually govern without needing 2/3 of the votes in the senate they could've; however, much like the Republicans they aren't actually a homogenous block so removing the Cloture Rule would just demonstrate they aren't in agreement and look embarrassing (akin to Republicans not being able to agree on a speaker of the house).
- LorenPechtel 2y ago[flagged]
- baseballdork 2y agoHonestly can't keep up with the conspiracies and euphemisms. Which party is deliberately sabotaging it and how are they cheating?
- ceejayoz 2y agohttps://apnews.com/article/irs-treasury-tax-audit-income-7c10474b3129c11d28a3e6a6cb245743 https://apnews.com/article/irs-treasury-tax-audit-income-7c1... > Due to previous years of underfunding, the IRS had cut back on the auditing of wealthy individuals and the shifting of assets among partnerships and companies became common. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted > The effects of an explosion in tax cheating would be dire. The nation’s already soaring budget deficit would surge by hundreds of billions of dollars more, pushing it well past $1 trillion. Commissioners of the IRS, starting with President George W. Bush’s appointee, Douglas Shulman, have warned Congress about a crisis like this since the budget cuts began, in 2011. But after eight years, Republican lawmakers, who are chiefly responsible for the reductions, show no signs that they think the danger is urgent. By the time the danger becomes indisputable, immense harm will already have been done.
- the_gastropod 2y ago[flagged]
- mcmcmc 2y agoIt’s almost like the parties don’t matter, and the ruling class relies on political circus as a distraction
- silisili 2y agoDon't forget the USCIS. It takes a lot of time, patience, and skill to navigate the phone tree in a way that doesn't either end the call immediately, or tell you to visit the website and then end the call. I had a paper and pencil marking my choices so I'd remember what I'd tried, and it was nearly full by the end.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- nullserver 2y ago[flagged]
- gorbachev 2y agoYou forgot the EPA.