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The IRS 'is imploding' under Trump
The IRS Was Not Neglected Into Failure. It Was Sabotaged.Stephanie Mencimer’s reporting describes a tax agency that cannot answer the phone, cannot reliably process mail, cannot always show people their own account information, and is leaving taxpayers stranded in bureaucratic limbo. That is the surface story. The real story is who made that condition politically useful, and who paid for it.What BrokeThe IRS is not suffering from an abstract “efficiency problem.” According to the report, call lines are dropping, online account access is intermittently broken, and backlogs are piling up in the…
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