There’s a certain kind of panic that only hits the progressive elite when one of their favorite taxpayer-funded pet agencies gets its gravy train derailed. Right now, that panic is swirling around the Internal Revenue Service — and not because it’s coming after your paycheck, but because Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are finally coming after them.
This week, critics on the left are clutching their pearls over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Trump administration’s bold initiative to rip the waste and bloat out of Washington. The so-called outrage? DOGE is finally swinging the axe at the IRS, cutting back a bloated, ineffective bureaucracy that’s been coddled for decades and weaponized against working Americans.
The same folks who applauded $80 billion in new funding for IRS auditors under Biden — enough to fund an army of tax snoops — are now crying foul because 7,000 bureaucrats are being shown the door. And DOGE insiders say that’s just the start.
Let’s break it down.
The Biden-era IRS was on track to become the most bloated enforcement agency in America, not counting the alphabet soup of federal three-letter agencies. Armed with the latest in surveillance technology and flush with tens of billions in new funds, Biden’s IRS wasn’t going after Wall Street — it was coming after Main Street. The new rule? Audit the little guy and ignore the elite.
Now, with Trump back in the Oval Office and Musk leading DOGE like a buzzsaw through bureaucratic red tape, things are changing fast. No more blanket audits on working families. No more excuses for an agency that can’t balance its own books. DOGE is bringing real accountability — and you’d better believe the D.C. swamp doesn’t like it.
Progressives claim this is going to “hurt tax revenue.” What they really mean is it’s going to hurt their ability to keep feeding a federal machine that only grows more powerful the more cash it siphons from taxpayers. According to the Yale Budget Lab, cutting 7,000 IRS staffers will save $7 billion in payroll and cost $71 billion in potential tax revenue. They cry “fiscal irresponsibility,” but forget to mention that same bloated agency couldn’t track down billions in COVID-era fraud, overpaid IRS bonuses, and “refunds” that went to deceased recipients.
Oh, and let’s not forget — this is the same IRS that conveniently “lost” emails during the Lois Lerner scandal when conservative groups were being targeted for audits. Now we’re supposed to believe they’re the champions of fiscal discipline? Give us a break.
Make no mistake — the IRS is not a revenue-maximizing machine. It’s a political weapon, and for far too long it’s been aimed at the wrong targets. The Trump-Musk efficiency crusade is about refocusing the government on serving the people, not surveilling them.
Of course, Biden loyalists are throwing tantrums. One of Joe’s former economic advisors even claimed that Musk’s cuts to the IRS are a “backward approach to government efficiency.” Apparently, cutting thousands of ineffective bureaucrats while demanding better results is now radical. In the real world, we call that basic business sense — the very kind Musk used to build multiple billion-dollar companies while the federal government hemorrhaged trillions in debt.
The truth is, cutting the IRS down to size is long overdue. Trump has made it clear: it’s time to rein in federal overreach and return power to the people. The DOGE-led assault on the administrative state is just the beginning. This is about restoring fiscal sanity, shrinking government bloat, and dismantling the Leviathan one useless agency at a time.
Sure, the IRS might collect less in the short term. But it’s not because honest Americans are skipping out on their taxes — it’s because the government’s spending addiction is finally being put on notice.
The left is right about one thing: this isn’t just a budgetary shift. It’s a philosophical one.
No more “starve the beast.” This time, we’re slaying it.
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