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A very dark “death of Stalin” type humor at how quickly the entirety of America is falling to a fucking agency named after a meme!!
Feb 17, 2025 7:06 AM
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A very dark “death of Stalin” type humor at how quickly the entirety of America is falling to a fucking agency named after a meme!!
redtails2649
Didn't he say this was the last election? He wasn't going to leave the office for the good of the country?
cjandstuff
Sure it's a meme now, but the Doge was the highest political position in the Venetian Republic.
While I don't think Musk is the genius he claims to be, I think he may have very well intended the double entendre.
rudiboy2000
They’re gonna sell it to China and Russia
Joad111
So, we don't need to file taxes this year?
CyberneticWhelk
And... This is the important thing. One man. one man will bring America to heel by assaulting it's financial payments.
Bigblackdick69
Kazpur81S
Why haven’t they started deleting student loan debt….?
Necromartian
American justice system: Trump! You're going to jail!
Trump: No U!
American justice system: Dang! He really got us this time!
LivingDeadX
And then suddenly, Trump finally releases his income tax statements. “See… there was never any problem with these.”
jalcantara88127001
Not even those being fired will do much. Sadge
DisconnectedFromWhatIOnceEmbraced
X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform. With full access to the IRS data he can force every American onto his X platform. Is this his play?
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-x-money-visa-payments-ed4538e0be2deb5fb5767ffb39ba25f3
RooGryphon
I'd switch to Canadian currency before I get forced to use anything from x
proxy5000
bassaro
OptimusJime602
So at what point do we just all not pay our federal taxes?
DukePhelan
So heavily guarded even people with no legal authority to be there can just walk in and fuck with shit without being shot in the fucking face.
LoonyBoBdammitwhotookmyname
At this point I'm just quietly waiting for the US to hit the point it's impossible to sustain their debt just so they can realise that taxes aren't the worst thing that could happen to a country. 20 years, right? Global economy will go crazy.
BeckyLookAtHerButt
Elon doing copying all the data and processing it on a PRIVATE SERVER. Way worse than e-mails.
Noxnarie
I am amazed that US citizen just gets on all fours and wait for the pain. Most of EU countries would have already taken out good old idiotism separator and made sure the blade was as rusty as possible.
PerthAussieMike
Muskrat, 'Ooooops, sorry, we permanently deleted (by 'accident') some tax records of a few people, sorry about that....'
BarnegatLight
Copy tax data, sic IRS on opponents and protestors.
HandoB4Javert
...only about 1% of the total...
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NZSheeps
That's President Felon to you. Oh, you mean Musk, yeah, nothing's going to happen to him, either.
albaboss
More like “oh nooo somehow myself and all my rich friends don’t have to pay taxes on anything ever again. Plus, any record of us not paying taxes in the past is gone. Oh noooooo”
freakdiablo
It's not like they already avoid paying due to loopholes or anything...
ValkyrieSwitch
BreakerSwitch
As a reminder, funding the IRS is the best investment the federal government has ever made. Every dollar put into the IRS pays for itself 2.5x over.
In other words, as a reminder, Elon's actions are less about government spending, and more about dismantling obstacles to him personally.
imguronefive
This will give Muskrat all kinds of advantage over his competitors in the automotive, space, and social media businesses. The other large corporations should be very, very concerned about this.
FlyingButtPliers
OK - I didn't think it was possible, but I think I know this game. Tencent + Chinese government enables their single party surveillance state. WeChat and what not are like a single super application that everybody needs to pay their bills or anything. He wants to do that with "X" which of course who would sign up for it? Well everybody because he will create your accounts and forcibly move your tax processing through his company. Sounded imaginary before, but it is his stated goal.
baldbear
Why can't you be like the French?
TheMindEntropic
Too domesticated
fartharder
Maybe they should release Trumps tax info
Deletingmypastandfuture
Don't pay your taxes. If we're not going to get anything from then goverment, why fund it anymore
BDBottom
The only people happy about firing 10,000 IRS employees are richfuck fatcat tax cheats. Everyone else? Expect your refunds much, much later. Welcome to Muskstania!
splud
Next step: they'll start issuing refunds in some memecoin they won't accept for payment.
Chocolatecoveredmoose
No no, every day MAGA are happy about it and smug too.
fshnbluesman
Living proof of just how fucked up those dumbasses are!!!
unluckyandbored
Refunds? Nah. You're not getting your refund. They'll blame a "glitch" in the system and just steal it.
narcoleptiKnickers
How fucked up do you have to be when people are rooting for the IRS over you?
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
I've always rooted for the IRS.
I don't hate the IRS. I don't hate taxes. I hate the tax-code that cunts like Intuit lobby for to protect their business.
LittleChickadee
This!
Mehlbox
The new IRS agents were tasked with exmining tax evasion by the 0.1% - they usually are 'hardened' targets juristically, because they usually lawyer up.
BreakerSwitch
Yep. Republicans repeated defunding of the IRS (despite for the fact that it has fantastic return on investment, every dollar put in pays for itself 2.5x over) left the agency unable to pursue 1% targets because they were prepared to spend more on a legal battle than the agency could afford.
This is why Biden funded the IRS and directed it specifically not to go after poor/middle class citizens. Pursuing blatant cases of tax fraud and tax evasion by the hyperrich could have been MASSIVE.
Mehlbox
Thanks, exactly.
It's just a shame - MAGA-voters got the explanation that the newly employed IRS agents would knock at their door, as a kind of Biden's personal armed brownshirts, taking their guns, their money and their freedom.
It was ridiculous, but they swallowed it hook, line and sinker...
SubtleOrc
America is a failed state. Who knew that you could just ignore the constitution and no one cares
clonedeeznuts
Rich people getting away with crimes isn't nothing new. Americans worshipping money over everything isn't new.
ItsACrazyWorld
whats ironic is that the movie "Dont Look Up" had this exact scenario. Where a billionaire had full access to the government because of his donations.
ladyfrost216
Love that movie. Lots of people said it was too on the nose, but look how on the nose real life fucking is.
BlackHoleSon01
Sure, we're a failed state. But have you seen the price of eggs lately? They are (checks notes) way UP since Musk took over. Aren't you mouth-breathers happy we have the oldest president ever AND his Nazi retard friend?
yoyo42
No one *who can do anything about it* cares.
That's how it looks so far, at least. It doesn't mean people aren't trying.
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
Well, I hope at least we'll get an equally good movie out of it..
rulek
Too depressing for entertainment.
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
You'd think that about The Death of Stalin too, but you just gotta laugh at the absurdity at times
jpatterson45
Still not feeling the trickle down effect in my daily life and budget down here in regular everyday middle America land
PerthAussieMike
Too many are too scared to lose what little they have left?
Mehlbox
"We may have short term some little pain, and people understand that." trump on Feb 3rd 2025
So, "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
splud
You got some of that trickle down on your shirt.. You need to pret-treat and wash that quick, or you'll never get the stench out. Or were you expecting some other kind of trickle-down?
xj4low
Of course not. All his cuts and firings have only saved 0.16% of the US budget. When the US spends trillions, saving a few million only equals an accounting error of savings.
CallThisAUsername
It's upper management grade corner-cutting savings bullshit. Somebody builds their career on the promise of making massive savings, it takes four years, and after you go through all the expense and effort to implement the badly inspired changes necessary, you save less money than the value of the calculator you have done the maths on. But it's technically savings, and anyway you've been promoted three years ago for the good job you've done managing this needless project, so who cares.
xj4low
And a bunch of the people fired are highly specialized like nuclear arsenal technicians. Except Elon is treating it like Twitter and firing all the programmers with the idea that they will just hire new ones that show they will work 60+ hrs a week off a normal job posting board.