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Musk says he 'deleted' IRS easy filing team that let Americans file taxes for free online
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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... HOW????? This movement simply has no real agenda or philosophy - they just want to burn everything down.
The government providing a free service that private companies charge for is considered overreach by the wealthy elite who stand to gain from holding a monopoly over access to a necessary thing.
That is the agenda
Sorry - I don't mean "agenda" in the weird meaningless pejorative way that partisans use it but rather in the more traditional "plan of things to be done" manner. Like - these people have no problem statement with "here is how we will fix it".
Yes, causing chaos is part of their "plan of things to be done."
If you want to know their agenda, read Project 2025.
Private companies and consultants make millions on tax advice. Wrongly filed tax returns result in fines. Need I continue?
I took what you said as the traditional meaning, there is no "fixing" unless destruction is fixing. Their "agenda", imo, is to tear down as much as possible, crash the economy, then buy up everything that they can; housing, businesses, etc
They literally ran on dismantling our government and the majority of voting Americans voted for them.
For the first time in my life I'm seriously considering getting citizenship elsewhere. Nothing good can happen for the future of this nation with a populace that stupid.
It's over.
The slimmest majority of the minority of Americans who voted
Anyone of voting age that didn't vote is just as bad as anyone that voted for this.
There's your supermajority of stupid Americans.
Disclaimer: I don't agree with this but providing a possible rationale. They believe the government is overreaching because "easy" tax filing has been privatized and it would harm those businesses. Never mind those businesses harm people
That seems a reasonable guess...
That's the agenda. Burn everything down.
Have you ever seen someone on social media who CLEARLY did not read the post they are responding to but saw a mention of AI or the word "implication" and posted the same tired old meme for points? And then notice that actually works because the vast majority of the internet doesn't want to discuss anything and just want to giggle at their comfort memes?
It is like that. Except they also want to enslave all lgbtq+ folk, brown people, and women. All while lining their pockets.