For what reason? How does accessing individual taxpayers private income/tax information allow you weed out wasteful government spending?

Increasingly I am only seeing one solution to this Musk problem.

I think he should get access to it.

I think everyone should get access to it.

That's how we do it in Scandinavia. It's been good for fighting corruption.

If your neighbour has a brand new Lamborghini in his driveway, while filling an income of 20k€ the last year. Maybe ask the IRS to look a bit closer at his finances.

I use it to see how much my colleagues make, so I have a leg to stand on in salary negotiations.

F elon

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.

They are worming their way through the various departments looking for something....dirt on their opponents?

hell.

the fuck.

NO.

I'm shocked they even asked

He wants to live like common people. He wants to see whatever common people see.

— he’s never paid any tax, so he obviously wants to live vicariously with the eyes of the poors. Not as one though, just wants to get closer to understanding them by looking at their tax returns, illegally.

Fuck Musk and ship him back to South Africa without a US passport.

At last we'll see Trump's tax records 👀🍿

All Americans should freeze your credit immediately.

Why?

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.

Maybe the sovcits were inadvertently on to something.

How would that help make the government more efficient? What is his justification?

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.

No. Fuck no.

Fucking called it.

https://fedia.io/m/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world/t/1804942/Repeat-after-me-The-power-they-HAVE-is-the-POWER