List of Offices in the Federal Government - Yikes!

Weatherman2020

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Each Office has Staff and Facilities. And of course a budget.
Why is the Federal Government involved in 70% of these? Would life in America decline if they just disappeared? You know each State also has a similar list.

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A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies | A | USAGov
 
And yet we need MOAR money for MOAR programs.

Shut down the ones no longer needed, consolidate where we can, see what money we saved and use it to fund relevant projects we have for today.
 
Each Office has Staff and Facilities. And of course a budget.
Why is the Federal Government involved in 70% of these? Would life in America decline if they just disappeared? You know each State also has a similar list.

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
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A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies | A | USAGov


Internal Revenue Service has a budget of TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS. Get that? $12,000,000,000 of your tax money comes right off the top just to pay a bunch of people to make sure you paid the right taxes. Meantime, with just a flat tax based off a percentage of the money you earn and spend, it could be done for
















ZERO. And that would end all the loopholes for the rich.

IRS: a real nifty way of creating good paying jobs for a whole lotta people.
 
And yet we need MOAR money for MOAR programs.

Shut down the ones no longer needed, consolidate where we can, see what money we saved and use it to fund relevant projects we have for today.

While I do agree we need to shrink and consolidate, the list is highly misleading. Take for example more than 30 times on this list are "Commands" within the DOD. They are not really separate offices or agencies.
 
Internal Revenue Service has a budget of TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS. Get that? $12,000,000,000 of your tax money comes right off the top just to pay a bunch of people to make sure you paid the right taxes. Meantime, with just a flat tax based off a percentage of the money you earn and spend, it could be done for
















ZERO. And that would end all the loopholes for the rich.

IRS: a real nifty way of creating good paying jobs for a whole lotta people.

Finally, an area we can agree on! :11_2_1043:
 
We are a country with 330 million people
Why is surprising you need a broad range of offices to serve them?
 
Each Office has Staff and Facilities. And of course a budget.
Why is the Federal Government involved in 70% of these? Would life in America decline if they just disappeared? You know each State also has a similar list.

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies | A | USAGov


Internal Revenue Service has a budget of TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS. Get that? $12,000,000,000 of your tax money comes right off the top just to pay a bunch of people to make sure you paid the right taxes. Meantime, with just a flat tax based off a percentage of the money you earn and spend, it could be done for
















ZERO. And that would end all the loopholes for the rich.

IRS: a real nifty way of creating good paying jobs for a whole lotta people.

IRS makes a profit of $4 trillion dollars
 
Internal Revenue Service has a budget of TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS. Get that? $12,000,000,000 of your tax money comes right off the top just to pay a bunch of people to make sure you paid the right taxes. Meantime, with just a flat tax based off a percentage of the money you earn and spend, it could be done for
















ZERO. And that would end all the loopholes for the rich.

IRS: a real nifty way of creating good paying jobs for a whole lotta people.
Fuck dat.

End the income tax and replace it with NOTHING!

Murica built roads, educated kids, and fought wars prior to 1913 with no direct tax on the peasants.
 
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Federal Employees have not increased in 50 years even though our population has doubled
 
Each Office has Staff and Facilities. And of course a budget.
Why is the Federal Government involved in 70% of these? Would life in America decline if they just disappeared? You know each State also has a similar list.

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W
A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies | A | USAGov
We probably don't need the Army and the U.S. Army. Which ones would you eliminate?

Don't forget that these agencies were created by Congress in reaction to a need. There was no room full of bureaucrats thinking up ways to grow the gov't.
 
And yet we need MOAR money for MOAR programs.

Shut down the ones no longer needed, consolidate where we can, see what money we saved and use it to fund relevant projects we have for today.

While I do agree we need to shrink and consolidate, the list is highly misleading. Take for example more than 30 times on this list are "Commands" within the DOD. They are not really separate offices or agencies.
That makes sense. I still think a huge "Defrag" is in order.
 
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Federal Employees have not increased in 50 years even though our population has doubled


This is a better way to look at it...
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So we have all those federal agencies in the OP with no rise in federal employees in those agencies over 50 years

The problem is less the number of Fed Employees but the rules and regulations they might impose on the private sector.

Rules on public safety, worker protection, environmental protection, civil rights
 
We probably don't need the Army and the U.S. Army. Which ones would you eliminate?

Don't forget that these agencies were created by Congress in reaction to a need. There was no room full of bureaucrats thinking up ways to grow the gov't.
Then you don't know bureaucrats very well...Their very existence depends on the problems that they are tasked with working on never are solved, if they don't get worse....It's bad business for gubmint to solve a problem.
 
We probably don't need the Army and the U.S. Army. Which ones would you eliminate?

Don't forget that these agencies were created by Congress in reaction to a need. There was no room full of bureaucrats thinking up ways to grow the gov't.
Then you don't know bureaucrats very well...Their very existence depends on the problems that they are tasked with working on never are solved, if they don't get worse....It's bad business for gubmint to solve a problem.
I know plenty of gov't workers and your description is way off. How many do you know?

Are you confusing bureaucrats with the congress that establishes and funds gov't agencies?
 
We probably don't need the Army and the U.S. Army. Which ones would you eliminate?

Don't forget that these agencies were created by Congress in reaction to a need. There was no room full of bureaucrats thinking up ways to grow the gov't.
Then you don't know bureaucrats very well...Their very existence depends on the problems that they are tasked with working on never are solved, if they don't get worse....It's bad business for gubmint to solve a problem.
Sure you do
 
Internal Revenue Service has a budget of TWELVE BILLION DOLLARS. Get that? $12,000,000,000 of your tax money comes right off the top just to pay a bunch of people to make sure you paid the right taxes.

It takes 2.4 million middle class taxpayers just to fund the IRS.
 

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