What agency would you like to see go next? Personally I'd like to see the IRS get the axe.
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110 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 6h
I'm with @kepford on this one. Kill the Department of Ed, as soon as possible.
However, this is a bit like lifestyle changes: the best one to go after is the one they can eliminate.
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38 sats \ 2 replies \ @TNStacker 6h
Yeah, but why are they doing everything, but this?
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72 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 5h
I don't know how they set their priorities. Perhaps they have a ranking of what will have the most bang for the buck or will be most politically feasible.
They may also be waiting until the secretaries get confirmed before really digging into the Departments. Agencies that are specifically created or mandated by legislation will be trickier to go after.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
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44 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 5h
Also, start with the trunk, it's better when it's warm.
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35 sats \ 4 replies \ @Aardvark OP 6h
I'm all for shaking the tree and seeing what you can get to fall out too. Anything that you can get rid of is an absolute win.
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41 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 6h
I would never have thought to start with USAID, so we also have to allow for them operating on more information than we have. The bodies may not be buried in the most obvious places.
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 5h
I definitely wouldn't have thought to even look at the USAID personally, so yea, I trust that they know more than I do.
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51 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 5h
I certainly would have thought to cut it, but digging through and disclosing all their records wasn't really on my radar.
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 5h
I'd think of cutting it so far as I want to cut literally everything, but other than that, it wasn't on radar at all.
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122 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 4h
I would love to see them completely close the IRS and do away completely with income taxes, however I think thats very unlikely.
However, I think Trump & Co could make changes to IRS that effectively nullify it. Some thoughts:
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Provide a common flat tax across all types of income: 10% for ordinary income or capital gains. I honestly think a much lower tax could result in close to existing or greater tax receipts. If someone wants to take 38% of your income + inflation, there is a very strong incentive to do clever accounting.....at a more sensible tax rate, its less cost and hassle to just pay the tax instead of the accountant.
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Update tax brackets to be inflation adjusted since inception. (eg. minimum tax bracket of $75,000, so effectively a 75K exemption)
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Provide inflation write-off for capital gains. For example, if you invest 100K in something and 10 years later its worth 500K....you get to write off the inflation from that 400K "gain" when you sell...its absurd that you are (a) taxed on the income pre-investment, then (b) they inflate the currency at 3-4% per year, so you are forced to "invest", then (c) they tax you on the inflation they caused you when you sell.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 4h
The tax laws are way over complicated. It would be nice to at least make them more simple and cut the staff way down.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @7e6e393a56 4h
Goodbye corporate press, but like nothing else in this life there is a power vacuum... welcome Big techs
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 4h
Honestly this reads like a 4chan joke. It’s wild what our reality has become
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 4h
This entire government reads like a 4chan joke.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @TNStacker 6h
With all the nearly perpetual campaign talk on DoEd, why the attacks (restructuring activity) at USAID, CIA, FBI first?
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166 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 4h
Good question. I saw a post on X that basically laid out the case that USAID, while only 0.5% of budget, is the lynch-pin that ties together bigger fraud. USAID is kinda like the "fraud slushfund" that is used to keep the media narratives and dozens of NGO all in line.
With USAID providing the unchecked payoffs, this keeps the bigger frauds perpetuating since there are no media outlets / NGO to run interference.
Its going to be very interesting to see how media coverage on these issues changes if places like CNN now actually need to compete for viewership to stay alive.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 5h
Maybe they're just easy targets? I have no clue, but any agency they cut is good.
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