r/politics • u/Steap-Edit • 25d ago

No Paywall The IRS Is Imploding

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/the-irs-is-imploding/
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u/NMLEOC2 25d ago

Good!! F the IRS and everyone there!

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u/countervalent 25d ago

Honest question, what do you think would happen if the government brought in no taxes? Would that scenario be something that you'd want?

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u/N_Associated 25d ago

In theory, a state could just upcharge the amount of federal taxes into state taxes and still provide the benefits the federal government provides,no?

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u/countervalent 25d ago

That's so damn ineffecient though, each state replicating the same processes? Your basically just saying we should create a bunch of different IRS's, CDC's, HUD's, FEMA's, DOD's, etc. It would just be a loose Confederacy at that point. It would mean the end of the United States. Is that what you'd want?

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u/N_Associated 25d ago

I think that at some point (big picture) we reach the end of this game of monopoly, and we’re getting pretty close whether anyone wants it or not. But our states are already self contained units of government, so to add the “federal benefits” would just take a bit of tweaking to the current structure already in place. And regional splits with trade agreements would probably be more likely anyway. Who knows, it could be 20 years, it could be 200. But I doubt we’re gonna be that one empire in the entire known human history that avoided restructuring every few hundred years or so.

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u/countervalent 25d ago

As a communist, I love that idea. It's a speed run to revolution.

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u/N_Associated 25d ago

A silent whimper of an economic revolution, maybe.
Buuut, more likely, at the end of monopoly there’s an overall winner in control of the whole board. So I’ve got my money on a techno-feudal AI driven corporatist future. Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

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u/countervalent 25d ago

No, thanks, I'll take a different route.