Summary
Elon Musk has requested access to the IRS’s Integrated Data Retrieval System, which contains personal tax information for millions of Americans.
The request has not yet been granted but has raised alarm among privacy experts and government officials.
Critics fear Musk could misuse the data, especially given his existing federal contracts. The IRS is considering a memorandum to permit access, despite strict rules against unauthorized viewing.
A federal judge has already blocked DOGE from accessing Treasury data, but other agencies remain vulnerable.
Increasingly I am only seeing one solution to this Musk problem.
Increasingly I am seeing Musk as the one solution to this problem:
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Piano wire and a train station?
9th storey window?
It is a classic for the Russian Oligarchs…what the hell, it’s traditional.
Or some 210 tea.
You can really taste the polonium!
Yeah we need to start taxing these rich grifters.
Yes taxes, I mean taxes.
We should tax the shit out of any assets above one billion.
Feed him some prion-infected human brains then lock him up for 20 years?
he needs WAY more than 20 years for what he’s done to the US.
It can take that long for the prion disease to kick in.
Careful, we might make him smarter.
Great, I’m about to get audited by the billionaire that probably doesn’t pay taxes. Lovely.
Even better, the “audit” will be done by some teenager named “Big Balls”.
I’m sure they have the wisdom, the experience, and level-headed presence of mind to properly deal with that kind of responsibility.
Good news everyone!
Musky’s audit has shown the billionaires are actually owed money from the government. Thankfully, those professionally weekend trained auditors confirmed that the working class owes billions in taxes.
The working class has two options: come with the money or be sent to a work camp to pay off the ever increasing tax debt.
From someone who took Records and Information Management years ago, this is a huge red flag and everyone in the US should be alarmed and pissed off about this.
Elon and his DOGE fools have no right to have access to American’s IRS records.
What? You don’t think some teenager with a stupid online nickname and Wicked Cool 7331 Hax0r Coding Skillz has the right to your data and my data?
I fully trust Big Balls
I did kind of wonder if that punk was somehow a fan of AC/DC…
Fuck Musk and ship him back to South Africa without a US passport.
Fuck Musk but this thing of shipping people around is crap. Just jail him like any regular criminal.
Nah, just put him in one of those idiot squishers like the Titan-1C that took out a handful of billionaires last year.
Seize everything he owns down to the last penny. He now has to work an entry level job for minimum wage.
I’m shocked they even asked
They figured they would try before they took it anyway just in case they could get some good PR
So given that his little team of unqualified racist have already proven to leak classified data and can’t secure a server with even basic security that someone on the homeserver community would do, it would be funny if this is how Trump’s tax returns would come out to light.
Hs team of probably cocaine addled computer whateversa re there to STEAL info. Not to fix, not to create. Bear that in mind.
How would that help make the government more efficient? What is his justification?
First thing that came to mind for me is going after retired federal employees, veterans, etc. Also locating immigrants, even if they’re here legally with documentation.
Read only access, right?
Right?
Hes good at doing things that look effective to slow ppl
The only positive thing here is that they ask instead of just take.
Oh, I’m sure it’s all for good reasons of “efficiency” and more of fElon’s altruism and deep concern for the country.
🙄
And he’ll get that access, I guarantee it. Hope I’m wrong.
You’re not wrong We’re fucked. I’m waiting for everyone else to get mad enough to revolt with me. Fuck Elon Musk. No one voted for that cunt.
They’ll start deporting American citizens who haven’t paid their student loans. Back to America! To Guantanamo!
All office dudes are shaking in their pants.
No, we’re not.
Since when has musk asked for anything? Aside from gov subsidies of course.
For what reason? How does accessing individual taxpayers private income/tax information allow you weed out wasteful government spending?
By arbitrarily denying regular people their tax returns for the sake of “saving money”
Yup. Tax refunds are about to become a thing of the past. For the bottom 99%, that is.
IRS audits for politically motivated reasons are about to become a thing.
And tampering for cover-ups.
I don’t think there’s anything “arbitrary” about who they fuck over.
nope. they know exactly who they are targeting. Black, gay, trans, women, poor people.
Theoretically (not wasteful spending, but corruption) - by noticing unexplainable incomes of government employees and relatives of those and politicians and their relatives. In practice - I don’t think they can be caught this easily.
Also it is a huge dataset from which one can have some insights on how to, well, optimize taxes and tax returns for whatever goal one wishes.
In practice others have already answered that.
