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The *better* story is why can't the largest bureau in the Treasury keep itself staffed? What will happen when our tax collectors just give up then resign en masse? One more government shutdown and the machinery of government might not restart. Why? If we hit the shutdown anticipated in October a rather large chunk of the IRS staff are going to run for the hills and *they won't come back*. There is no \"Magic Money Tree\" to pay for federal programs... <\/p>
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The *better* story is why can't the largest bureau in the Treasury keep itself staffed? What will happen when our tax collectors just give up then resign en masse? One more government shutdown and the machinery of government might not restart. Why? If we hit the shutdown anticipated in October a rather large chunk of the IRS staff are going to run for the hills and *they won't come back*. There is no \"Magic Money Tree\" to pay for federal programs... <\/p>
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When diversity concerns like this come up, I find them frankly incredible. We're lucky anybody took any of the top jobs at the Treasury at all to fill in the blank spots in the order of succession. This bit of concern mongering from POLITICO is just a wee bit over wrought and misdirected: https:\/\/www.<\/span>politico.com\/story\/2019\/06\/11\/<\/span>trump-treasury-department-diversity-mnuchin-1359089<\/span><\/a><\/p> 2\/<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:status.net,2009:notice-source:ostatus","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ostatus"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.sdf.org\/users\/alpacaherder\/statuses\/102261056888107695","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.sdf.org\/users\/alpacaherder\/statuses\/102261056888107695","objectType":"comment","content":"