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It is interesting for a targeted campaign like this administration's—which claims to be concerned with government waste and inefficiency—to cut employees for on
by km144 2y ago
It is interesting for a targeted campaign like this administration's—which claims to be concerned with government waste and inefficiency—to cut employees for one of the only organizations that we know causes decreased revenues for the federal government when it receives cuts in funding [1].
Of course, it's not like they're implementing any sort of new policies to make sure productivity in the IRS remains the same. I'm not sure why we'd expect anything less at this point.
[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60037 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60037
- Havoc 2y agoThat plus we know Trump and IRS are not best friends...
- jeffbee 2y agoIt's not targeted. It's a blanket destruction of the nation. It is carpet bombing.
- km144 2y agoI agree with you—destruction of bureaucracy with no plan is a recipe for disaster. I only meant to take the administration at it's word for a moment.
- alsoforgotmypwd 2y agoBecause it's all about libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, utopian ambitions like Curtis Yarvin where all government is "the problem" without evidence or admission of reality.
- cemerick 2y agoInsofar as you're tariff-ing everything that moves, the less you particularly care about internal revenue. The endgame is to eliminate the income tax entirely anyway, so why would one want the IRS at all?