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that's correct. the IRS is a broad label. private digital services like elon musk's companies handle the databases and access to running the software. the imaginary privacy standard is mostly non-existent. "taxpayer" is also a lame term - because why are non-citizens or those with suspected illegal status paying taxes legally? i think the administration needs to consider that carefully. if an illegal is paying taxes to the federal government - that's actually a case for exploitation and indentured servitude. how do you justify that? moreover - if the targets are citizens, border patrol has no business investigating them; if we are discussing bounty mercenaries - no bounty network or private group should have access to government data ever. which again returns us to my constant reminder that private corporate tech contractors (that are not full-time government employees) are a danger to national and international security.
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