Working as intended?
Working exactly as intended.
P.s., I’ve never really understood - and I am assuming good faith here - the punitive instinct to reduce funding on underperforming but necessary functions of government. If we accept that IRS is a necessary function and we know that IRS isn’t performing as intended then what is the causal mechanism by which they’ll getter better at their role with less funding? It’s also one (of many) the issues I have with performance pay for teachers - great teachers are great no doubt about it, but every child needs a teacher. Shovelling more of the pie towards a few teachers inevitably underfunds the remainder, and the remainder are the ones who teach the bulk of the kids. (And, incidentally, yes; I’m not a fan of starving the funding of poorly performing police units. Aggressively root out all the bad apples and publicly crucify them, but for better or worse the police do fulfil a necessary function. Underfunding a racist, abusive, corrupt police department is not going to make them see the error of their ways.)
