Your government hates you: IRS deliberately cut its own customer service budget to punish citizens, legislators; rogue agency should be disbanded

‘A recent congressional report demonstrates anew just how dismissive, spiteful and rogue the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has become when dealing with the very people who pay for its existence: The American taxpayer.

According to a report by majority Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, “Doing Less with Less: IRS’s Spending Decisions Hurt Taxpayers,” fewer than half of taxpayers who attempted to contact the agency with a question about taxes this year did not get a response.

In fact, the IRS itself estimated that it could only answer 17 million of the 49 million calls it received this tax-filing season; those lucky enough to get through spent an average of 34.4 minutes waiting for help, or nearly double the 18.7 minutes during the previous year’s tax-filing season.’

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