IRS Fires 6,000 Workers as Trump Slashes Government

[toobfreak]

Thursday about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6% of the agency's workforce

if 6,000 was 6% of their workforce then the IRS had about 100,000 employees, or about 2,000 employees per continental state. That means that the 87,000 they were supposed to hire was a near DOUBLING of their staff!

 

[Marener]

Why do you want a government bloated with unnecessary workers, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, incompetence, waste, fraud and corruption?

Show your evidence--with a credible source please--that the workers to be laid off are necessary/essential and you might have a reasonable argument. Otherwise you're just trolling and spewing the assigned talking points to criticize everything whether or not the criticism has any merit.

They’re rehiring thousands of them.

Federal workers in Chicago left confused by mass firings, sudden rehiring

The scattershot approach targeting many federal agencies has some elected officials, bureaucrats, and union leaders saying the so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" is creating chaos with serious safety concerns.

abc7chicago.com

 

[NetJedi]

A.I. will replace lots of government paper shufflers.

Why stop at "lots"?

Personally, I'd prefer ALL, machines don't need salaries, perks, medical insurance and bloated pensions.

New federal government hiring policy:
"You can hire as many new employees as you want as long as none of them breathe"

 

[Scoutster]

What do you call 6,000 fired IRS employees?
A good start

6K down, 94K to go.

 

[Edgetho]

IRS to Hire 30,000 Employees Over the Next Two Years

Biden administration lays out the full spending plan for its new $80 billion cash infusion.

www.govexec.com

Why is this part left out?

Because it was cancelled??

 

[Foxfyre]

They’re rehiring thousands of them.

Federal workers in Chicago left confused by mass firings, sudden rehiring

The scattershot approach targeting many federal agencies has some elected officials, bureaucrats, and union leaders saying the so-called "Department of Government Efficiency" is creating chaos with serious safety concerns.

abc7chicago.com

I bet they're only rehiring the ones who actually do their jobs.

 

[NetJedi]

I bet they're only rehiring the ones who actually do their jobs.

There's a nice benefit to rehiring federal employees.

It means you get the satisfaction of firing them more than once.

 

[Lesh]

Firing a bunch of IRS workers during tax season

What could go wrong?

Well on the good side there’ll be less audits of complicated cases so some rich ducks will save some money (and our debt will grow) if you think that’s good…


Oh and refunds will be slower. But who needs those right?

 

[Lesh]

I bet they're only rehiring the ones who actually do their jobs.

Stay away from Vegas

 

[marvin martian]

https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/irs-fire-doge/2025/02/20/id/1199826/

An executive at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service told staffers Thursday about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6% of the agency's workforce in the midst of the critical tax-filing season.

All I can say to that is -- Sorry Mods. Hope this doesn't break the "Clean Start" rule but.......

 

[Foxfyre]

Stay away from Vegas

Oh so you want them to rehire the incompetent, the unnecessary, the inefficient, the ineffective, the corrupt? How do you justify that?

 

[Lesh]

Oh so you want them to rehire the incompetent, the unnecessary, the inefficient, the ineffective, the corrupt? How do you justify that?

How do you know that any of that is true?

Because Elmo claims it?

 

[Lesh]

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you forget he went after FEMA, the VA, and Social Security?

 

[Marener]

I bet they're only rehiring the ones who actually do their jobs.

Provide a credible source as evidence or else you’re just “trolling”.

 

[Foxfyre]

How do you know that any of that is true?

Because Elmo claims it?

Nope. I just trust those who are putting American first instead of the batshit crazy leftists who hate that they are doing that.

 

[Moonglow]

Now I can play tax avoision without any IRS agents taking notice.

 

[Foxfyre]

Provide a credible source as evidence or else you’re just “trolling”.

I don't have to provide a source for my personal opinion. I am the source.

 

[Hum Dinger]

A.I. will replace lots of government paper shufflers.

You realize that A.I. was created by the same people that brought us spell checker, auto-correct and self-driving cars, right?

Anybody that understands technology knows that A.I. really stands for "Automated Idiot"!

 

[Lesh]

Nope. I just trust those who are putting American first instead of the batshit crazy leftists who hate that they are doing that.

So you believe Elmo because you trust him


For no real reason

 

[Foxfyre]

So you believe Elmo because you trust him


For no real reason

My reason is that he has given me no reason not to. People who keep their promises/word are pretty believable. I see good thing after good thing after good thing reported and that also increases the trust. I think that's a very real reason and a pretty good one.