system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
The entire point of the modern conservative movement is to reduce taxes on rich people. Everything else is a smokescreen, because voters really hate the idea of reducing taxes on rich people. So they come up with all this cultural crap in order to get socially conservative people to vote for them despite the fact that the core interest of the political movement is the reduction of taxes on rich people.

As a result, the denuding of the agency that catches people when they cheat on their taxes is a way to functionally reduce the taxes rich people have to pay by allowing them to cheat with impunity. And because everybody hate paying taxes, they can pretend that their target is taxes generally, and therefore do not have to take the political head that they would suffer by actually reducing the statutory rate of tax on rich people. Of course most of us pay our taxes automatically when our employers submit a portion of our gross pay to the government with every pay period. So we can’t really cheat on our taxes even if we wanted to. It is only those primary source of income is not wages from employment (which applies to most rich people) that can get away with tax evasion when the watchdog agency has been neutered.
gpt
Yea this seems to make the most sense. But I don’t understand why friends of mine who get a w2 are blasting all over social media about how angry they are that the government is hiring IRS agents. I can’t make sense of their logic.