LaffyFeb 19, 2025
🤦🏻‍♀️The US Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency's resources during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said — Reuters
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 20, 2025

@GottaLaff

This makes a tax revolt against Trump's billionaires a lot easier to implement.

They don't pay their taxes, why should yours go to line their pockets?

https://zeteo.com/p/musk-and-doge-might-soon-have-access

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musks-us-department-defense-contracts-2025-02-11/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/16/elon-musk-doge-government-privatization

https://abcnews.go.com/US/musk-works-slash-federal-spending-firms-received-billions/story?id=118589121

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/18/musk-8-million-a-day/

https://www.investors.com/news/tesla-stock-elon-musk-fed-contract-doge-trump-alienate-consumers/

Musk and DOGE Might Soon Have Access to the Most Lucrative Defense-Contract Database of All

Ex-officials warn Zeteo that the USXports database is a means for Musk to undercut competitors to SpaceX in the defense sector.

Zeteo
Show threadJeff
@Npars01 @GottaLaff
As much as I'd really like to not pay my taxes, I'm also certain that the trump-friendly IRS will focus its limited resources on auditing honest taxpayers with simple returns in blue states, and will happily reach into the bank accounts that they stole the info on and just take what they want.
Why focus on billionaire tax cheats when they can target political enemies?
Feb 20, 2025 at 3:04amWeb
Show threadMichel Lind  Feb 20, 2025

@evilotto @Npars01 @GottaLaff under-withholding to deny the federal government an interest free loan (that getting a refund actually is) is probably a good start.

It's also in people's self interest since given the layoffs and the DOGE shenanigans can people be sure they will get a return in a timely manner?

So a #WorkToRule / slowdown, to continue the strike analogy rather than a full strike

Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 20, 2025

@evilotto @GottaLaff

Non-compliance takes many forms.

The IRS will have insufficient staff to conduct audits.

Slowed tax remittances can be just as effective as messaging.

Analogy: Billionaires bought the car of governance but still want the former owners (voters) to foot the bills for its operation.

They can pay for their own gas, insurance, and oil changes. They bought the car, they can fund its operation.