As Trump and Musk Upend Washington, Congressional Phones Can’t Keep Up – NYT
Dear DOGE commander and billionaire-in-charge Musk + data musketeers:
Please take a long look at exactly how much money the US government is sending me and 70 million other Americans in Social Security payments and receiving from us in taxes. Make sure you keep sending us Social Security checks with a New Year’s COLA. Failure to do so could ignite a march on Washington that would make the Jan. 6 riot look like a kindergarten play.
It would be a waste of money to instruct the IRS to audit me and other critics of the administration. A lot of us are in the economic ‘bottom 50%.’ Unlike many billionaires, we are honest and pay our taxes even though many of us have trouble keeping up with inflation. In any case, retired senior IRS officials have mentioned that the IRS is so understaffed that if people file and don’t pay their taxes, the agency would not have the capability to audit the vast majority of them within the time frame allowed under federal law. Maybe you know this already and will ask Congress for an extension. Hopefully, you will figure out what the optimum number of employees is to keep the government and country running.
BTW, you could boost government efficiency and reduce government debt by increasing payments to Medicare providers each year by LESS THAN the Social Security COLA. Doing this will not be easy. As you know, the medical industrial complex gives members of Congress lots of money. Cheers,
Citizen Polzer – Republic of Virginia
PS: Teens and 20-somethings entering government service — not that there’s anything wrong with that – should note that government careers are not as secure as they were last year.
