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Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

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Re: Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

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Post by maximinus_thrax »

Nextgrid wrote: post #16

They might be flying too close to the sun on this one. A lot of the IRS' "inefficiency" is intentional, so it can be abused by moneyed interests to evade tax without anyone noticing. Fixing those inefficiencies would bring this problem to light and force them to deal with it. While it's not past the current administration to formally legalize it, it's still "stirring shit" for no good reason and worse than leaving th…

lol no. Your opinion is based on the assumption DOGE is actually making things more efficient. It is not.

> moneyed interests to evade tax without anyone noticing

If the people tasked with 'noticing' are being laid off indiscriminately, what do you think is going to happen with tax evasion?

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Post by subsection1h »

eastbound wrote: post #8
Raidion wrote: post #2

I think the group of people that work on this should petition for their tax data to be the first to be used. Seems to align the incentives on internal controls of PPI.

Then those who vote for higher public services should be the ones to pay. Which, if they did, would solve the left/right dichotomy. But no, those who want the public services want the money taken from the other half. Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power. At the thought of leftists in power, I thin…

> At the thought of leftists in power, I think open data day at the IRS is really not bad.

LOL. You're not even an American. He's a tip: U.S. states with the highest GDP per capita are mostly run by Democrats[1] (who, by the way, aren't leftists).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

Re: Doge Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data

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Post by numpad0 »

mullingitover wrote: post #11

> Next week, DOGE and IRS leadership are expected to host dozens of engineers in DC so they can begin “ripping up the old systems” and building the API, an IRS engineering source tells WIRED. The goal is to have this task completed within 30 days. Sources say there have been multiple discussions about involving third-party cloud and software providers like Palantir in the implementation. Well yeah, obviously bring in…

Doesn't this mean Palantir noped?

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Post by pintxo »

mullingitover wrote: post #18
eastbound wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then those who vote for higher public services should be the ones to pay. Which, if they did, would solve the left/right dichotomy. But no, those who want the public services want the money taken from the other half. Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power. At the thought of leftists in power, I thin…

> Here’s what I always remind myself about this current government: It is really the worst ideas conflated together, but it was that, or elect leftists in power. "We destroyed the economy for a generation, but at least we stopped people from making us put pronouns in our bio."

It‘s the worst ideas together, but the alternative is even worse? That does not make any sense, logically. But I guess this summarizes the current situation quite nicely.
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