The IRS is a massive social service, because much of US fiscal policy gets done through the tax code via ever-more-complicated tax credits and deductions.

Some of us might consider this round-about policy implementation a disservice.

And you believe that is a proper, ethical, and correct way to manage social services, to the point were we should call the IRS as social service?

Why not? It’s part of the system of providing services (some direct, like EBT; some indirect, like roads and pollution regulation) that we elect governments to do behalf.

I meant the unemployment benefits are a social service.

False. UI is an insurance program paid by the employee.