IRS To Begin Laying Off Employees Today

It’s a good start, though, this is making Democrats very upset (right up till the IRS audits them)

IRS layoffs expected to begin tomorrow, union official says

The IRS is expected to begin laying off employees tomorrow as part of the job cuts slicing through the federal government, a union official told workers Wednesday.

Though it could potentially disrupt tax-filing season, Shannon Ellis, a local union official, said in a video message that an indeterminate number of newer hires at the agency’s Kansas City facility will be let go.

Layoffs are also expected at other IRS facilities.

“We received notification today that employees in SB/SE who are on probation are scheduled for termination,” she said in a video message, referring to the agency’s Small Business/Self Employed Division.

In another video message, Ellis said: “Our probationary employees will be removed as of tomorrow — we don’t know what time, we don’t know how it’s going to happen, we don’t even know if it includes all of our probationary employees,” she said, adding probationary periods can be either one or two years from the time someone begins work.

OK, why would this effect tax season? These are new employees, not the ones already there. These are not replacements, for the most part. It’s just scaremongering from Democrats, who would have a completely different opinion if Trump sicced the IRS on them and their groups, right?

The IRS is especially vulnerable to the initiative because it has been on a hiring binge in recent years as part of a sweeping effort to improve services at the agency. Between 2021 and 2024, the workforce increased by one quarter, to more than 100,000.

“Improve service”. Funniest joke I’ve heard in months. We were told they would be hiring 86K to go after those icky rich folks. It’s a whole lot easier to say “one quarter in 3 years” than “yeah, we hired 25,000 employees in 3 years”, right? But, hey, here’s some pure Trump Derangement Syndrome along the same lines

Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe

(4 wackadoodle paragraphs to start)

This unprecedented sequence of events in the U.S. has left many observers in a daze, struggling to make sense of the dramatic reshaping of the bureaucracy under way.

Yet, as researchers on authoritarian politics, it is no surprise to us that a leader bent on expanding his own power, such as Trump, would see the bureaucracy as a key target. Here’s why.

Go that? Reducing the federal bureaucracy and whacking agencies, which Trump really has no intention of replacing, is going down the authoritarian route.

A well-functioning bureaucracy is an organization of highly qualified civil servants who follow established rules to prevent abuses of power. Bureaucracies, in this way, are an important part of democracy that constrain executive behavior.

Except, we do not have one. We have a politicized, unaccountable one which doesn’t respond to the people and thinks they are the lords of the people. Who spend taxpayer money however they so see fit, lord knows how much ends up in their own pockets and in the pockets of their cronies. We could keep going on, but, it’s just another case of moonbats manufacturing Reasons that Trump, who is attempting to reduce the power of the federal government on citizen’s lives, is the next Hitler.

The post IRS To Begin Laying Off Employees Today appeared first on Pirate’s Cove.