DOGE can begin by enforcing the collection of delinquent income taxes from dodgers and those that are paid in unreported cash. Also get rid of the deductions that only high earners can ever hope to enjoy. Give the IRS a large enough budget so that they can enforce our tax laws. Or maybe we should just avoid hard decisions and keep raising the National Deficit. Our choice.
Lets start with the IRS and the government itself:
https://outreach.senate.gov/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=112957&c=JErnst
More than 5,800 IRS and contractor employees owe nearly $50 million in overdue taxes.
Of the 3,323 IRS employees with unpaid taxes, 2,044 owing more than $12 million were not on a payment plan.
Of the 2,484 IRS contractor employees with unpaid taxes, 1,729 owing more than $17 million were not on a payment plan.
Despite the IRS having the authority to fire employees who willfully fail to pay taxes, just 20 of the agency’s tax cheats were terminated.
Over 500 former IRS employees with tax compliance issues or conduct and performance problems, including criminal misconduct, sexual misconduct, inability to perform duties, fighting and assault, and unauthorized access to tax return information, have been rehired by the agency and its contractors.
Government-wide,
149,000 federal employees owe $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes. Tens of thousands are repeat cheats, failing to file tax returns year after year and that number is steadily increasing.