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Trump voter shocked to get fired by DOGE: It’s ‘destroying people’s lives' (www.nj.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Viking_Hippie to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25883319

Summary

IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.

McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago

Back before the 2016 election, Trump ceded that his "University' had been a scam and paid back the students who had sued him. When I pointed out that Trump was scamming his own people, a MAGoo wrote back that those people deserved to be scammed because they hadn't read the fine print.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A wrecking ball

What he voted for was a wrecking ball. It was glaringly obvious. What he expected was that this wtecking ball would only hit others: gays, non-whites, etc.

[–] GeeDubHayduke 8 points 4 months ago

Right. They voted for the mummified foreskin because he was gonna destroy people's lives. That was the point. Shit got off the rails when the lives destroyed were theirs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

What an idiot...2 times.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe the only response to those who voted for, and now question Trump, is that, in your sweetest voice:

"The president was voted in because he was to restore godliness and since you're now suffering, it just means that you're not a part of God's plans."

[+] [email protected] -44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The IRS is a good thing. It was starting to go in a better direction re: having increasing resources and capability to audit wealthier entities before this admin.

[+] [email protected] -32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is a false dichotomy. There is no reason not to simplify the tax code and close loopholes while also ensuring the IRS has the resources it needs to adequately hold wealthier taxpayers accountable. Please participate in good faith.

[+] [email protected] -36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you really saying you're taking their word for it? You make that new account just to troll?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn, someone reported this as trolling because this line of reasoning that you can supplant the IRS through tariffs is legitimately that stupid. Your moderator-approved punishment is that this comment will remain up so other people can see your brain dying in real time.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Remember how much more equal the US population was back in the day?

Right guys?

Right?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't see what that has to do with it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Things were even more shit for the vast majority of the population back in those days.

The countries with the most socio-economic equality and the happiest population all have higher income taxes, don't rely on tariffs to finance their government and offer solid social programs financed by the State.

Those tariffs are going to hurt everyone and mostly people like you and me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

For much of our history, people didn't live long. There's a cost for so much safety and longevity that didn't exist back then.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

So for reference, right now more than half the US doesn't pay income tax due to not making enough. With the External Revenue Service, everyone is going to start paying those taxes through higher prices.

So Trumps plan, as is usually the case is to push the tax burden on lower income households and decrease taxes for the wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Tariffs aren't external revenue. They're paid by the importer/consumer of the foreign goods (i.e. within the United States.) For starters, the current and proposed tariffs come nowhere close to the amount of money needed to replace income taxes. In addition, if the tariffs successfully discourage American consumers from buying products that they apply to, the money generated by the tariffs also drops even further...

Really it doesn't hold up to any scrutiny at all if you think about it even a little bit. To champion it like you're doing... at best, you have no understanding of the mechanisms being discussed, and you're believing their lies hook, line, and sinker. At worst, you are doing a poor job of trolling or are deliberately spreading propaganda. And given you know how to type, it's very sad that you don't know better, because you should.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Is this a general argument or are you defending the specific cuts musk had made?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I want them to have the staff on hand to go after whales.