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I am sympathetic to the overall argument that IRS man hours available to "do useful stuff" is lower per capita than it used to be but I think your numbers are p

I am sympathetic to the overall argument that IRS man hours available to "do useful stuff" is lower per capita than it used to be but I think your numbers are potentially way off. Everything also got digitized in that time which is somewhat of a confounding factor. We should probably be comparing IRS staffing to the fraction of the population employed in the private sector equivalent roles.

CRConrad 2y ago
> Everything also got digitized in that time which is somewhat of a confounding factor. The IRS being a large federal agency, it's possible that everything except the IRS got digitized... Or, you know, the IRS "got digitized". In the 90s / 00s -- so, with humongously clunky systems built by huge consulting firms to the standards of (at least) ten years earlier.