@lnxw48a1 In the end, people keep thinking of the IRS as the Fairy Godmother Department. There are practical limits as to how much tax can be extracted from the US population. The politicians have to stop metaphorically writing checks with their bloviating that Treasury can't back. We may wind up before this current term is over in quite an interesting financial crisis due to the Treasury staff finally just giving up out of frustration with management and the populace. Buy popcorn...

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@lnxw48a1 We have a looming debt ceiling crisis, possible reinstatement of budget monies sequestration, and no enacted budget for FY2020 as otherwise expected in the timelines from the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. With everybody busily trying to get their party's nomination to run for President, the folks in DC are a bit distracted. The crew bent on attacking POTUS at any cost is also ignoring their role in governing, too.

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@lnxw48a1 Frankly we'll see the General Fund start to get uncomfortably low in the next 18 months if these personnel losses aren't made up. If we hit another shutdown at the end of FY2019 the Service may suffer further catastrophic personnel losses. There is an FTE floor under which several functions would have to be dropped such as Customer Service so as to keep things afloat. The Service doesn't have much cushion left above that floor.

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@lnxw48a1 Right now the bulk of federal revenue comes from the Individual Income Tax. The division that handles that is currently bordering on operational collapse. None of the 20 Democrat nomination hopefuls seem to have noticed that the 35 day shutdown caused a quarter of the critical processing and adjustments staff to resign while retirements are accelerating. While the Service is trying to hire to backfill attrition it is running out of potential candidates.

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@lnxw48a1 Most of the 2020 Democratic Primary candidates are proposing to dump more social welfare programs on IRS to administer without increasing the operating funding for the Service. Larger refundable tax credits, Medicare-for-All, and more all have a very large price. Even if we moved to confiscatory levels of taxation the Service would not be able to collect enough money to pay for all of them.

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@lnxw48a1 Overruling NFIB v. Sebelius is going to be needed before spending is ever going to go down. That nasty little decision helps cement turning the IRS into a schizophrenic agency. Is it a tax collection agency or a welfare agency? Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended, it magically has to be both at the same time.

Essentially all these spending programs come down to the ability to tax and spend. 1/

BBC News - Young, mega-rich - and demanding to pay more tax https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48804905

These crazy people have apparently not seen the web form on Pay.Gov for "Gifts To Reduce The Public Debt" where they can explicitly pay more tax just as they wish: https://pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454

@snowdusk_ Disregard my last, we're going to get a very late start to the net tonight

@snowdusk_ Could you please disconnect the SDF Amateur Radio Club net from anonradio tonight and please let DJ Kumata take over? We have had some major tech difficulties tonight and the net is not happening. The anonradio feed is now acting like scanner output as it is broadcasting somebody else's net. /cc: @smj @nonlinear @SDF

Signal is breaking up a bit

Conservatives rebel against Merkel's EU top jobs plan https://www.politico.eu/article/european-council-summit-conservatives-rebel-against-angela-merkel-eu-top-jobs-osaka-g20-plan/

Well, this might give #Brexit a bit of a push forward if the EU27 make a shambles of things all on their own.

New at Coyote Works: A LaTeX Quick Hit http://coyote.works//posts/QuickBits20190630-1/

New Commit To Film Script Versioning On Launchpad -- The script begins and we're going with a very short story making an epistemological point. http://git.launchpad.net/~skellat/+git/TheFilm/commit/?id=66e1194d4c984f629db46cfc9cba7dfd9fc77cca

New Commit To Film Script Versioning On Launchpad -- Finally finished the first scene even though I am not happy with it http://git.launchpad.net/~skellat/+git/TheFilm/commit/?id=4cac6afba7696230759e1399be213907b1c6065c

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