cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25883319
Summary
IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.
McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”
The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.
The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.
A wrecking ball
What he voted for was a wrecking ball. It was glaringly obvious. What he expected was that this wtecking ball would only hit others: gays, non-whites, etc.
Right. They voted for the mummified foreskin because he was gonna destroy people’s lives. That was the point. Shit got off the rails when the lives destroyed were theirs.
Back before the 2016 election, Trump ceded that his "University’ had been a scam and paid back the students who had sued him. When I pointed out that Trump was scamming his own people, a MAGoo wrote back that those people deserved to be scammed because they hadn’t read the fine print.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_O’Donnell
That’s the acting commissioner of the IRS.
He fired the probationary employees at the IRS because he was afraid to stand up to Musk and trump.
Fascists use Tinkerbell logic, they have as much power as people think they do. If we start saying Musk has the power to fire federal employees, Musk will start acting like he has the power to fire federal employees.
Details are more important than ever right now. And if the agency heads that resigned out of cowardice had stayed at their post, they could be up there right now saying they refuse to fire anyone and making a giant media spectacle out of all of this. Which would pressure the ones willing to go along to also stand by their employees.
You can’t beat fascism by going home and taking a fucking nap.
Fascism works because people want to give him the power. Acting commissioner wants to do it.
I hold the same power as Trump and musk - the only difference is the number of people who book l believe in it.
Indeed.
Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands. – Anselme Bellagarrigue
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What an idiot…2 times.
Is anybody really crying for an IRS employee?
The IRS is a good thing. It was starting to go in a better direction re: having increasing resources and capability to audit wealthier entities before this admin.
Is it reasonable to grow the enforcement bureaucracy ad infinitum in order to keep pace with an exponentially more complicated tax code, or might we be better off simplifying things a little?
That is a false dichotomy. There is no reason not to simplify the tax code and close loopholes while also ensuring the IRS has the resources it needs to adequately hold wealthier taxpayers accountable. Please participate in good faith.
Rumblings from Trumpland (and the odd post from Musk) point to the long-term goal being a vastly simplified tax code and commensurately smaller IRS.
Biden seemed content to keep hiring more IRS agents.
Are you really saying you’re taking their word for it? You make that new account just to troll?
Trump’s been pretty loud about the External Revenue Service eventually supplanting the IRS.
If you don’t think he’s serious about tariffs, you aren’t paying attention.
Tariffs aren’t external revenue. They’re paid by the importer/consumer of the foreign goods (i.e. within the United States.) For starters, the current and proposed tariffs come nowhere close to the amount of money needed to replace income taxes. In addition, if the tariffs successfully discourage American consumers from buying products that they apply to, the money generated by the tariffs also drops even further…
Really it doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny at all if you think about it even a little bit. To champion it like you’re doing… at best, you have no understanding of the mechanisms being discussed, and you’re believing their lies hook, line, and sinker. At worst, you are doing a poor job of trolling or are deliberately spreading propaganda. And given you know how to type, it’s very sad that you don’t know better, because you should.
So for reference, right now more than half the US doesn’t pay income tax due to not making enough. With the External Revenue Service, everyone is going to start paying those taxes through higher prices.
So Trumps plan, as is usually the case is to push the tax burden on lower income households and decrease taxes for the wealthy.
Damn, someone reported this as trolling because this line of reasoning that you can supplant the IRS through tariffs is legitimately that stupid. Your moderator-approved punishment is that this comment will remain up so other people can see your brain dying in real time.
Is this a general argument or are you defending the specific cuts musk had made?
Yeah. I want them to have the staff on hand to go after whales.
whales
You mean the big shots with their undeclared tips and their Venmo payments?
Can’t tell if you’re serious
