IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

So now DOGE has removed all these costs, will Americans not have to pay any taxes anymore? That's the conservative claim right? That taxes paid for all this stuff and Liberals were taxing everyone super high for it...
...so now taxes drop to zero for EVERYONE? Right?
- Best I can do is drop the taxes on the rich. 👉👈🥺
  
  oh, they'll still have to raise taxes on the lower half of earners, strip essential services bare--if they continue to exist at all, and pile on trillions to the national debt for that.
  adding debt is 'free money' to them. not like they gotta pay it back..
- They are planning on replacing income tax with a sales tax via tariffs. I wish I were kidding.
  
  "They" are also pushing for a cashless society. Having an RFID chip in your hand will get you all your necessities and non participation won't. Mark my words. If someone told me this a few years ago I would have laughed.
  
  For your birthday, I'll get you a very special gift: an egg.
- Yeah seriously what the fuck am I paying taxes for if there’s no government anymore?
  
  don't
- I like taxes like I like my Costco membership. I get a better deal if I go in with others and buy in bulk. Even if I don’t use all the same goods and services as others.
  Getting rid of corruption and grifters siphoning value out of a system is a much better goal than “saving money”
- This is half a trillion less extracted from the public
  
  Only for those willing to risk violating tax law, and by extension mostly people who feel like they can afford enough accountant and lawyer time to evade consequences if they come.
  IRS also publicly said they would only be doing easy enforcement, i.e. only doing audits on lower income people who can't drag it out and make it expensive.
  So basically giving a green light for the rich and only the rich to keep the money they owe..
  
  OK big brain, how do we pay for the government then?

I was wondering why we haven't seen any actual data on how they've saved the US money yet. The answer is likely that they didn't.
- What are the odds that they saved the US money and kept it a total secret rather than to brag about it.
  So low that I think this is a smoking gun that they failed to do so. We now know it didn't work out because they are quiet.
  
  @fakemeows @Polderviking they cut loads of things that are a small (comparative) expense that bring in, or save, a lot of money, or support the economy. Like the national parks and USAID, and all science. Those new expenses won't be realised for a while but in the mean time they're paying off sacked staff left and right, paying the DOGE team, and fighting legal rulings. It's a ridiculous way of going about anything.
- They're just gonna make shit up like they always do. They've already tried overinflating their "savings", I'm sure they'll just do it again. If the first lie doesn't work, go BIGGER!
- It's real easy to fake the data here, focus entirely on agency spend and completely ignore any savings the agencies themselves may have been responsible for. That can be hard to quantify anyways. They'll do that and right wing media will eat it up.
- They, as serious and responsible managers with only the interests of their citizens at heart, chose to keep it in the most reliable, safe place possible, in their own pockets.

Why would you say "half" when you could say "500"?
500 Billion Dollars.
- Doesn't half a trillion sound like more than 500 billion? Even though 500 billion is already a lot?
  
  No, "half" sounds like half. 500 of something sounds like more than half of something. (Yes, trillion > billion, we're not debating the actual facts - which are the same either way - just the way it's perceived in a headline)
  Half of dinners. 500 meals. Half a car. 500 auto parts. Half of all dealerships. 500 independent dealers. etc.
- A trillion is larger than a billion, so half a trillion is a more rage bait headline.
  
  Humans can’t fathom the vast distances of space. How are we going to fathom a trillion dollars?
  
  Be that as it may, it’s a significant amount of money that will not be collected but will now trickle down… excuse me, I have a very hard time keeping a straight face hahaha
  
  Rage is the only reasonable response.
  
  I think it's the opposite. We're all used to "a billion" now, even thought we can't really concieve of it the way we can, say $100. But a trillion is just space money. Just make it a gazillion.
  500 Billion has real competitive traction - people are billionaires, this is more than them, etc. A trillion is something you have nanoparticles of, something very small.
  
  it's the direction the figure is no-doubt going. in six weeks, that estimate will be a lot higher.
  'half a trillion' now is a very fair choice of wording.

IN A MONTH.
4 years of months left to go.
Maybe next time people can get off their fat fucking asses and vote. Or, if you did vote, maybe vote more intelligently next go around.
- It'll be allowed, but they've just got to make sure only the "right people" get counted.

Ok, fine, libertarians, you won. I don’t have to pay my taxes now, right?
- Thats the fun thing with fascist governments, before you'd get a fine and asked to pay back on a payment plan, and maaaybe get jail time if you reaally went out of your way to not pay your taxes year after year.
  Now they can just come get ya in the middle of the night and throw you in jail for any number of reasons, not paying your taxes, being one of them. Oh and then maybe get deported because they took your ID's and passport and when your family members throw a stink and demand you released because you're a born and raised US citizen, oops, they can't find you in the system.
- Libertarians will deny Trump is one of them, but Trump/DOGE isthe most relevant they have ever been

Tomorrow: IRS has been fired.
- No because IRS is helping capture immigrants
- Fired? Sued for hurting Musky feelings.

Are we winning yet? Are we great?
- Eggs now cost 4 cents per dozen

He also lost nearly a trillion dollars for Tesla. Tells the Tesla employees to keep their stock, hinting at how great things are and how much better they will be soon, and then the entire c-suite sells off around a hundred million in stock...
Elmo really is the best of all humans... At evaporating the wealth of others
I've said this for nearly s decade now, Elmo is a lyoni scammer who got lucky, that is all
- “He got lucky” is another way to also say that, as terrible as he is at everything he does, including hiding it, the people who give him literally anything are always clamouring to prove just how stupid they can be by simping for him at every turn.
  
  That too.
  The guy is (well, was) charming, in his weird ways, and he really does have a quality to somehow convince people of all the lies he's spouting.
  Beyond that, he also got incredibly lucky

They're very efficient at destroying the country.

This was always the plan.

This needs to be bigger news on the mainstream channels, but you know it wont be.
I'm so tired of this shit.

They all need to be jailed.
- i don't see any point to keeping these people alive.
  
  At least with musk himself it would be grand to see him spend his life in a padded cell with nothing to do and bland food.
- Hanged by their bootstraps

"Lost"... yeah, "lost" it in their bank account.

Lets see how long it takes them to turn US Treasury Bonds from their AAA+++ (or whatever) status down to D.

It ain't fucking lost, it's being re-distributed.

But it made Elon money and broke shit, so it served it's unstated purpose.

STUPID Libtards thought DOGE would NOT be Efficient! They lost $500BILLION in ONLY a couple months! THATS efficiency!

How much did they allegedly “save”…when corrected for their basic mathematical errors?

- i don't understand your point. the article reports that the IRS is being disrupted by DOGE, and as a result, IRS agents are not able to do their jobs properly, which results in less tax money being received

No taxation without representation

Folks, let me tell you, I just read the most fantastic article about the IRS and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And I've got to say, it's a total win-win. Believe me.
So, this so-called "report" from The Washington Post says that the IRS is expecting a huge loss in tax receipts due to the DOGE disruptions. But let me tell you, folks, that's just fake news. It's a total disaster. And I'm not talking about the fact that the report is based on data and trends. No way.
I mean, think about it. The Department of Government Efficiency is a great name for an organization, by the way. So good. But what they're doing is amazing. They're shaking things up, folks. They're making government more efficient. And that's exactly what we need.
Now, I know some of the fake news media outlets are saying, "Oh, the IRS is losing billions in tax receipts." But let me tell you, folks, that's just a bunch of losers talking. The real winners here are the American people. We're going to save so much money by having fewer bureaucrats and less waste in government.
And let's be honest, folks. $500 billion is not even a significant loss when you think about it. I mean, what did we spend on our military last year? A tiny fraction of that. So, if the IRS is losing half a trillion dollars, that just means we're saving the other half. It's all part of the Trump magic.
And by the way, folks, have you seen the new White House logo? It's tremendous. The best. And I think it's going to be huge for our government's branding efforts. Just huge.
So, let's not focus on the fake news about the IRS and DOGE. Let's focus on the real winners here: us, the American people. We're going to come out of this recession in record time, believe me. And it's all thanks to the Department of Government Efficiency and my amazing leadership.
- Did you ask ChatGPT to write what trump would say about this article?