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Here's the big picture: Only around 3% of total spending is federal payroll. Dismantling of essential services like free tax filing saves very little money. To
by breadwinner 2y ago
Here's the big picture: Only around 3% of total spending is federal payroll. Dismantling of essential services like free tax filing saves very little money.
Total annual spending is around $6.75 trillion, of which only around $210 Billion is spent on federal payroll (not including military and postal workers).
All these cuts are intended to pay for tax cuts for Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires.
- zerocrates 2y ago18F went around improving tech for other agencies and the government as a whole; shutting them down almost certainly costs money. Just as cutting from the IRS tends to cost money.
- alabastervlog 2y agoThey didn’t bother to cut spending to pay for the last two fiscally-disastrous rounds of big Republican tax cuts. Why do it this time? No, they’re just trying to wreck the government. They were pretty open about it during the election.