And so having him promote such a negative tweet about the effort just seems out of nowhere.
Well, now you know why most here are not cautiously optimistic about DOGE. Welcome to the club.
How many people here think they could write a direct tax filing program that doesn't cost 10+ million dollars?
What I would like from the comment sectection is how would you implement this system more effectively not a bunch of NPC elon bad comments.
What's the purpose of these whining comments? When will chatgpt replace these people or has that already occurred?
It feels like you're falling for the Politician's Fallacy here ("Something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done."). You're right that there's broad agreement that the fat needs to be trimmed, but that doesn't make DOGE a good idea, and I don't think we've heard anything about them that isn't terrible, illegal, or both.
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer stopped working, but I did comment on some of the costs here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562822
Medicare and Medicaid is the single biggest cost--it's quite large in fact--but paying for the actual services (private services) is where the bulk of the costs comes from.
The actual fat is private industry over-charging and over-billing Medicare and Medicaid, but this is the same parasitic problem that we see in private health care in the US.
Why? Because of regulatory capture and lobbying by the health lobby; the same lobbyists who also double-dip by having both employers pay for the plans as well as having the insured pay out of pocket through "high deductibles".
This is the "fat" that MAGA politicians refuse to touch, because they're just as corrupt as every other politician in the so called swamp.
PS I doubt you'll see this, but I've been meaning to respond for some time now.