Please provide evidence for what you considered to be normal to be an effective workforce for the ongoing task at hand (nation state tax collection).
I personally view our IRS head count as being at historical lows by raw headcount; and even lower by population size if we look at the last 40 years (would love data that goes back further).
Someone has to pay to operate a nation state, you can’t borrow forever to fill the gap and there’s nothing left to cut. Roughly the bottom 60% of Americans do not make enough to have a federal income tax liability. So, we can kick the can on the top 40% paying until the bond vigilantes make the decision for the US.
Stated reasons may or may not be actual.
If you recall these were not just accountants but agents who carry guns etc.
I see this as very similar to the ICE situation. Biden has loyalty and power in IRS and so gave it money to help him police. As the government gets more corrupted I think we’ll find more agencies weaponized like this.
The equivalent question is can you provide proof that ICE provides power and is loyal to Trump?
I don’t think you would say that’s a deep state conspiracy.
You’re shifting the discussion to organizations being political, hoping it becomes a divisive topic.
A well-worn and sleazy playbook to dodge any discussion of a problem that has exceeded the tipping point.
I wouldn't call is comment sleazy I think he's just trying to discuss the topic at hand.
Normal people are the easiest to chase; the cut backs have made this a foregone conclusion.
> which is where most tax revenue comes
Because normal people can’t afford transnational accounting shenanigans.
> from and where most of the fraud is.
The Panama papers prove deliberate tax dodges are not by “normal people”.
> I wouldn't call is comment sleazy I think he's just trying to discuss the topic at hand.
Injecting and steering a discussion towards party and identity politics a where there was none is a sure fire way to shutdown a discourse.
Deliberate or not, the method involved is sleazy.
By the way: Given that your definition of normal in your heavily downvoted comment, I’m not surprised you’re defending the comment.
Dig deeper and look back over decades. The 2022 bill and headcount to 100k was a push BACK to normal.