The IRS runs on technology over 30 years old and gives agents no clear deadlines or scope, so projects drag on for years. A software founder and Scott Bessen confirm the agency has competent people but no direction, while the banking industry modernized decades ago.
Honestly, the stuff that's being discovered, I really do believe that Doge needs to fight back. And they— listen, you're gonna— whether they do it where they come out one day and say, this is what we've discovered, or whether they, they're just like every day, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I didn't play a video yesterday that we had of this gentleman that's been— he owns, I think it's called Level. He owns some type of computer software company. He's part of the Doge team. and he came out and said, listen, a lot of the IRS agents, believe it or not, they know code. They're actually pretty good. They literally have no direction. They've been working on the same programs and trying to finish the same jobs for years and years and years and years because there's literally no direction at these agencies. It's insane. It's like they just exist. Okay, here's a job to do. And then there's no, okay, this needs to be completed within 30 days, within 2 weeks, within by the end of the week. No, you can get a job that essentially could take the private sector a week or two weeks or a month. They'll work on it for years. They'll work on it for years. Literally, they got new programming that should have been updated. Scott Bessen and this gentleman talked about 30— our technology is over 30 years old. All of the banks have updated. The IRS has not updated. And they had the okay to do it 30 years ago and they've not updated. I, I, this is what we're dealing with.
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