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Elon Musk's DOGE Begins IRS Audit

sanman said:
That lady Samantha Power who heads USAID has experienced a tremendous increase in wealth. How did it happen? Did she just make some amazing investments? Or did she use her position to enrich herself?
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But you also approve of Trump enriching himself off the US presidency. Seems hypocritical of you.
 
TangoNoCash said:
But you also approve of Trump enriching himself off the US presidency. Seems hypocritical of you.
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Not to mention it’s not even accurate, yet another of the many examples of Musk getting his info from and amplifying whatever any random person tweets to him, and then flies throughout the magasphere.

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Former USAID head Samantha Power’s wealth didn’t ‘skyrocket’; her wealth largely stayed the same​


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BBC and Forbes also fact-checked this claim and found it to be misleading.

We rate the claim that Power’s net worth skyrocketed during her term as USAID administrator False.

www.politifact.com

Samantha Power’s wealth did not ‘skyrocket’ in USAID job

In trying to fulfill his promise of eliminating waste in government, President Donald Trump, along with billionaire Elon
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Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims in the Oval Office​

www.bbc.com

Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims in the Oval Office

The billionaire has made a number of exaggerated or unevidenced claims during a White House event.
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sanman said:
That lady Samantha Power who heads USAID has experienced a tremendous increase in wealth. How did it happen? Did she just make some amazing investments? Or did she use her position to enrich herself?
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Okay... we have a name.

A quick search shows that she had a financial disclosure form filled out when she took the job under the Biden Administration which she listed her assets as being between $11 Million and $20 million. So she was quite wealthy when she took the job. Instead of assuming that she got wealthy from doing government work isn't it possible that she was already rich and Musk is lying to you?
 
sanman said:
The IRS audits everyone -- now it's the turn of IRS to be audited.
They too have to pass scrutiny, like everyone else.
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What on earth are they being audited for?
You have never been audited, i was but once in my entire life.
So i ask, specifically, what the **** are you talking about?
 
Any one with half a brain can see that they are in the process of either getting rid of or de-fanging the watchdogs.

Does anyone here still actually believe it's about FWA?
 
noonereal said:
What on earth are they being audited for?
You have never been audited, i was but once in my entire life.
So i ask, specifically, what the **** are you talking about?
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This isn't a mere tax audit to see if they paid their taxes.
This is an examination to see which heads of govt agencies have acquired unusual wealth, possibly due to improper use of their govt position.
 
sanman said:
This isn't a mere tax audit to see if they paid their taxes.
This is an examination to see which heads of govt agencies have acquired unusual wealth, possibly due to improper use of their govt position.
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That seems to me to be a criminal investigation.

What authority does Musk have to do such a thing?
 
multivita-man said:
Turns out, DOGE isn't really auditing the IRS...he's going to end up auditing YOU, the taxpayer.

www.nytimes.com

Musk Team Seeks Access to I.R.S. System With Taxpayers’ Records

A White House spokesman said that the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency needed to review data to fix waste within the agency.
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I sooo want to say MAGA-tards defend or otherwise explain the bold part away.



We have inspectors general to audit agency waste, fraud, and abuse. Congress can request additional oversight, which shouldn't be a problem given the House and Senate are under Republican control and would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to peel away some less partisan Dems to support this as well.

What they're proposing is taking the most sensitive data we have that we are compelled to send to the government and giving it to some third party that doesn't have legitimate statutory or regulatory basis for accessing that data.

I never want to hear conservative ****-knuckles complain about the intrusiveness of the federal government ever again. "Conservatives" can take all their Alex Jones paranoia and shove it up their asses.
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I told you he was going to try to seize EITC and child tax credit returns.
 
sanman said:
There needs to be a look at why certain heads of govt agencies have gotten so wealthy.
Maybe they just happened to make some excellent personal investment and financial decisions.
Or maybe they used their govt position to enrich themselves.
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what do heads of agencies have to do with fishing through private tax returns? Private citizens aren't heads of agencies.
 
Guessing the 30,000 IRS agents Biden wanted to hire ostensibly to pay for the Inflation Reduction (sic) Act are out, too. Sounds like they'll need to cut back on the outlays by reversing a bunch of it in the next reconciliation bill.
 
sanman said:
This isn't a mere tax audit to see if they paid their taxes.
This is an examination to see which heads of govt agencies have acquired unusual wealth, possibly due to improper use of their govt position.
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again...why do they need access to YOUR tax return to determine that?
 
sanman said:
This isn't a mere tax audit to see if they paid their taxes.
This is an examination to see which heads of govt agencies have acquired unusual wealth, possibly due to improper use of their govt position.
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That's not called an audit. That's called an investigation. If you want to investigate her there's a word for it. You guys are super familiar with it. Lawfare.
 
TangoNoCash said:
That's not called an audit. That's called an investigation. If you want to investigate her there's a word for it. You guys are super familiar with it. Lawfare.
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You're hairsplitting over terminology, because you don't like the idea of uncovering corruption when it involves your side. You don't want to see such corruption exposed and dismantled.
 
sanman said:
You're hairsplitting over terminology, because you don't like the idea of uncovering corruption when it involves your side. You don't want to see such corruption exposed and dismantled.
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I'd be fine with it if they chose to follow our laws and constitution. You've heard of it, no? You're the one splitting hairs and encouraging the president and his billionaire oligarch to break the law.
 
sanman said:
You're hairsplitting over terminology, because you don't like the idea of uncovering corruption when it involves your side. You don't want to see such corruption exposed and dismantled.
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The one person you named as being corrupt was quickly shown that the claims against her are false.

You are chasing phantoms.
 
sanman said:
This isn't a mere tax audit to see if they paid their taxes.
This is an examination to see which heads of govt agencies have acquired unusual wealth, possibly due to improper use of their govt position.
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Question. How did 5 kids under 24 conduct audits on 10 giant departments already?

Seems to me, all they have had time to do is grab info.

And you never spoke to any specifics of what they have found. You can't because they haven't. Why haven't they? Because they are not really looking.

As i said, their real mission right now is to steal information that will be used to compel others to join the cult or suffer consequences .

And just and FYI, no media told me this. It pretty obvious if one pays attention and is not into the Cult of MAGA.
 
Jezcoe said:
The one person you named as being corrupt was quickly shown that the claims against her are false.

You are chasing phantoms.
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Lot's of innocents will be tarred and feathered for the cause.

Only way out, pledge allegiance to our Hitler.
 
noonereal said:
Question. How did 5 kids under 24 conduct audits on 10 giant departments already?
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How did you make dots appear on the screen? What magic was it? If you wanted to communicate, then why didn't you use parchment?

noonereal said:
Seems to me, all they have had time to do is grab info.
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Info can be grabbed and then examined on more modern systems.

noonereal said:
And you never spoke to any specifics of what they have found. You can't because they haven't. Why haven't they? Because they are not really looking.
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Then what are they doing?

noonereal said:
As i said, their real mission right now is to steal information that will be used to compel others to join the cult or suffer consequences .

And just and FYI, no media told me this. It pretty obvious if one pays attention and is not into the Cult of MAGA.
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Why are they more likely to misuse the information than the people within that dept?
 
Jezcoe said:
The one person you named as being corrupt was quickly shown that the claims against her are false.

You are chasing phantoms.
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You mean like calling someone an agent of the Kremlin without any proof?

Govt agencies should be audited. That's entirely reasonable. Why are you so opposed to this?
 
TangoNoCash said:
I'd be fine with it if they chose to follow our laws and constitution. You've heard of it, no? You're the one splitting hairs and encouraging the president and his billionaire oligarch to break the law.
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They're operating entirely within their authority. Tell me which laws are being broken.
 
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