Lost.
Not saved. Lost. Elon and the Musketeers lost this nation half a trillion dollars.
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You're spinning it wrong. "With the doge cuts, we saved you half a trillion dollars in taxes"
…that’s not what happened.
This is like a fuck off huge gas turbine generator spinning at full chat and then just starting to take parts off of it and snipping fluid lines. One of the features of turbines is that they will continue to run for a bit even when they’re heading in the direction of catastrophic failure, since it’s all angular momentum and no reciprocation. But it IS going to catastrophically fail.
This is the system just eating itself and money being - at best - siphoned into someone’s pockets, or more likely, just being outright wasted. The USAID cuts, for instance, basically locked an absolute shitload of consumables and perishables in warehouses to spoil. That’s what we’re talking about. And that’s only the most obvious example.
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It should be blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention that the "Department of Government Efficiency" isn't really about efficiency.
Just like the "ministry of truth" isn't about the truth.
And now the "environmental protection agency" is about extracting profit at the expense of the environment
Environmental Plundering Agency
To their credit they're destroying government to pave the way for oligarchy very efficiently
They are already an oligarchy, they are paving the way for an authoritarian dictatorship now.
Does it seem stupid only to me to destroy the environment they thrived in?
They are not smart. They are just pathologically greedy people born to wealth.
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Remember, they're talking about efficiency all day long, but they're not mentioning effectivity with a single word.
Efficiency is how fast/cheap/ressource-less you can get something done. Effectivity is if you're even doing the right thing at all.
You can be super efficient, but still not be effective by doing something, so....
I mean we can just say they aren't about efficiency because they don't research anything before they start making cuts it's simply I don't like USAID let's gut it, I don't like the SSA so let's gut it.
They know what they're doing even if Trump somehow gets the boot we're looking at probably 50 years or more to get back our world position if they don't fuck our economy up so badly it's effectively impossible to comeback.
Or efficacy
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MAGA/DOGE were bragging about getting like 100 billion dollars over ten years from tariffs while the US gains ~1.5 trillion dollars every year in income tax revenue.
Everything is bad right now.
Not for the rich, but that was the plan all along
It will be. Their short sightedness will lead to their ruin in a dictatorship. History has shown this time and time again. But these billionaire aren't known for being smart or history buffs.
From what I hear.....elon, thief and their cronies are specifically wrecking government to push a corporate takeover...jeeze. it's like robocop.
And/or destabilizing the country's economy and political power worldwide so our enemies like Russia can do whatever they want without the US interfering. The complete destruction of US soft power via things like USAID and the blatant attempts to destroy any collaboration with our allies seems to point more in that direction.
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Worse than RoboCop, we don't have a cool robot cop shooting dicks off to show for it
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You gotta give it to Elmo, few people would have been able to pull off that feat. I mean, losing that much money takes hard work and dedication, and I'm not even kidding hete. It actually takes a certain skill set (extreme incompetency combined with an unending unearned confidence) to be able to lose that much money that quickly. I was impressed with the money he lost from Twitter, but that's peanuts now, that's a rounding error in comparison to what he's losing the US now.
That money isn't lost, I think we all know who's going to divvy it up when all is said and done.
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Imagine being so fucking dumb you use IRS data to go after immigrants who are paying taxes, thus ensuring no immigrant ever pays taxes again.
Let’s qualify this more accurately. It’s not lost. It’s “lost.”
Let’s all keep an eye out for the shiny new upgrades to putin’s war crimes in Ukraine.
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Wait till you see how much we loose from killing the Department of Education. Education is like the easiest ROI
Just like in corporate america, the savings hit this quarter so bonuses all around. Then the CEO jumps ship and it's someone else's problem next quarter.
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Look at THAT Efficiency!
I think we should organize and go demand everyone working for DOGE... stop. And not demand like with funny signs and chants, but like with 2nd amendment arms.
The article doesn’t explain how, where the money went, or how the IRS knows this.
Cutting staff thereby reducing the IRS's ability to find and go after wealthy tax cheats.
Thanks! I wasn’t doubting the article, just wanted more info.
The fourth sentence of the article explains it
The Post reports today that the IRS’s internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. This, to be clear, is not a final tally. It’s not April 15th yet. It’s a projection based on historical data, the number of people who’ve filed, paid owed amounts of tax etc.
For every dollar spent on IRS staffing, etc, it's estimated to be at least a 7x return. Any disruptions are going to cost a lot with that in mind. Also, I find it a little misguided to question the IRS, an agency that shows its work's opinion on DOGE, an "agency?" Which has failed to show its work and has been caught lying frequently.
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Making big losses attracts investors. - Elon Musk
Henry Davis Thoreau smiles on us this day
Oh so sad. Elect a clown expect a circus.
Install an unelected billionaire, expect theft.
They probably just funneled it directly to Russia, and we'll continue to do so until disassemble them and send them back to the factory
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