• krische@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You seem to have a very optimistic view of the efficiency of governments. I mean the IRS is basically running on a budget of table scraps after being defunded for decades.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe, and I really do mean maybe someone has a record somewhere that you have a child. That doesn’t mean it is shared with the IRS.

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        1 year ago

        That’s my thinking.

        Every large organization, private or public, that I’ve interacted has been basically just a bunch of different people in many different silos. I’m surprised to see so many people have this “well oiled machine” perspective of the government where apparently it is all seeing and all knowing.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not “governments”, it’s the “US government”. Here in Europe, it just works.

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      1 year ago

      It was more a statement about data mining. It’s cheap and easy and the government 100% does it