For what reason? How does accessing individual taxpayers private income/tax information allow you weed out wasteful government spending?
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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By arbitrarily denying regular people their tax returns for the sake of "saving money"
Yup. Tax refunds are about to become a thing of the past. For the bottom 99%, that is.
IRS audits for politically motivated reasons are about to become a thing.
And tampering for cover-ups.
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Increasingly I am only seeing one solution to this Musk problem.
Piano wire and a train station?
9th storey window?
It is a classic for the Russian Oligarchs...what the hell, it's traditional.
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Yeah we need to start taxing these rich grifters.
Yes taxes, I mean taxes.
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From someone who took Records and Information Management years ago, this is a huge red flag and everyone in the US should be alarmed and pissed off about this.
Elon and his DOGE fools have no right to have access to American’s IRS records.
What? You don't think some teenager with a stupid online nickname and Wicked Cool 7331 Hax0r Coding Skillz has the right to your data and my data?
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Great, I'm about to get audited by the billionaire that probably doesn't pay taxes. Lovely.
Even better, the "audit" will be done by some teenager named "Big Balls".
I'm sure they have the wisdom, the experience, and level-headed presence of mind to properly deal with that kind of responsibility.
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Fuck Musk and ship him back to South Africa without a US passport.
Fuck Musk but this thing of shipping people around is crap. Just jail him like any regular criminal.
Nah, just put him in one of those idiot squishers like the Titan-1C that took out a handful of billionaires last year.
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I think he should get access to it.
I think everyone should get access to it.
That's how we do it in Scandinavia. It's been good for fighting corruption.
If your neighbour has a brand new Lamborghini in his driveway, while filling an income of 20k€ the last year. Maybe ask the IRS to look a bit closer at his finances.
I use it to see how much my colleagues make, so I have a leg to stand on in salary negotiations.
That's not how it works here... Don't pretend and welcome his horseshit. This is probably about making a personal enemies list
In a fair democracy, sure. But the US ain’t that; I wouldn’t be surprised if they used donation write-offs to target political opponents.
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The only way the Trump administration is going to do anything about people cheating on their taxes is to pardon them for it.
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I'm shocked they even asked
They figured they would try before they took it anyway just in case they could get some good PR
How would that help make the government more efficient? What is his justification?
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So given that his little team of unqualified racist have already proven to leak classified data and can't secure a server with even basic security that someone on the homeserver community would do, it would be funny if this is how Trump's tax returns would come out to light.
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Read only access, right?
Right?
They are worming their way through the various departments looking for something....dirt on their opponents?
Probably dirt on everyone. And just to farm for their own purposes. Collate all the federal data, pump it into his grok LLM, and try to create his own file on every consumer.
AI generated dossiers, terrifying. Imagine all the crimes the AI can hallucinate a person did. And with generative audiovisual AI can manufacturer the evidence.
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And he'll get that access, I guarantee it. Hope I'm wrong.
You're not wrong We're fucked. I'm waiting for everyone else to get mad enough to revolt with me. Fuck Elon Musk. No one voted for that cunt.
hell.
the fuck.
NO.
At last we'll see Trump's tax records 👀🍿
Hes good at doing things that look effective to slow ppl
Oh, I'm sure it's all for good reasons of "efficiency" and more of fElon's altruism and deep concern for the country.
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All Americans should freeze your credit immediately.
All Americans should have their credit frozen in general. You can unfreeze it any time you want to make a big finance decision like a mortgage but there's no reason to just leave it out there the rest of the time.
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The only positive thing here is that they ask instead of just take.
He wants to live like common people. He wants to see whatever common people see.
— he’s never paid any tax, so he obviously wants to live vicariously with the eyes of the poors. Not as one though, just wants to get closer to understanding them by looking at their tax returns, illegally.
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