The IRS Moved IT and HR Staff to Process Taxes. It's Not Going Well

I haven't filed yet. Maybe some prompt injection in my 1040 will work some magic.

"Government doesn't work, elect us and we'll prove it!"

It's tragic how well this fucking strategy keeps working in this country.

Working as intended. Their goal is to degrade government

> That works because the auditing the rich is very expensive

But it is "profitable".

It is one of the very few things the government does that generates short-term "profits" - every dollar spent auditing the rich and collecting from them generates more money than is spent, and we have never been close to break-even.

If you truly want to run the government like a business, increasing funding to IRS audits and collections is one of the hallmarks of what you would do.

EDIT: a lot of what the government does, and it should be everything the government does, is profitable, but it's more like "we spend this money, it increases GDP on some timescale, and then we get more taxes from it". This is short-term because it is more direct. The IRS audits bring in more tax revenue quite directly.

Without the IRS we can't pay more taxes. Taxation is good.

Started in the second half of Biden's presidency. The republicans argued that the IRS was already overfunded in the first half and refused to allocate additional budget for them.

This isn't just a Trump thing, it's a Republican party thing.

The ultra wealthy were already safe; it's much cheaper for the IRS accuse a middle class household with a couple W2s and a Doordash 1098 of inadequately tracking their mileage and fuel receipts than it is to review the reams of paperwork they'd receive when auditing any of the ultra-rich.

Meanwhile, even in an alternate reality where IRS was occasionally seizing some billionaire's entire life savings for cause, the proceeds would fund the federal government's operations for just a few hours. Hours! No amount of collected taxes make a difference when congress spends 2-3x what they collect!