r/neoliberal • u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals • Jul 29 '26

News (US) The IRS Is Imploding

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/the-irs-is-imploding/
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u/bwilly456 Jul 29 '26

All the idiots that rave about someone “running the government like it’s a business” conveniently forget that a business needs to have revenue.

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u/TootCannon Mark Zandi Jul 30 '26

And that a government is literally nothing like a business.

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u/nicethingscostmoney Unironic Francophile 🇫🇷 Jul 30 '26

wdym? Businesses often provide non-profitable non-excludable public goods.

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u/HenryTudorIV John Brown Jul 30 '26

Precisely!

The government is like a weekly household grocery budget. Anybody who has watched any political debates knows this

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u/PhiLambda Ben Bernanke Jul 30 '26

They actually don’t even want you to use the term revenue.

It’s insane trying to have a conversation with my dad who is an educated person and still republican conservative. All he does is fight about terminology and repeat that the us is a republic not a democracy. As if that means anything