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  • DOGE Idiocy Costs USA $500,000,000,000

    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 23 09:11:01 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent amid turmoil at IRS
    |
    | Staff cuts and disruptions related to the U.S. DOGE Service
    | have officials bracing for a sharp loss of revenue.
    | ...
    | Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a
    | decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by the
    | April 15 deadline compared with 2024, said the people, who
    | spoke on the condition of anonymity to share nonpublic
    | data. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost
    | federal revenue; the IRS collected $5.1 trillion last year.
    | For context, the U.S. government spent $825 billion on the
    | Defense Department in fiscal 2024.
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-revenue-loss-federal-budget/>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 12:57:49 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is
    | breaking down
    |
    | A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into
    | chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/social-security-phones-doge-cuts/>

    --bks

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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Tue Mar 25 09:48:28 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Bradley K. Sherman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    | Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is
    | breaking down
    |
    | A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into
    | chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/social-security-phones-doge-cuts/>

    Yup. Break it and then use that as an excuse to turn it over to private
    equity.

    More cost, fewer services, less security.

    --
    Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority
    over the other.
    -- Honore DeBalzac

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