Given the institutions that operate government we have no choice but to hand over private details to them, starting with the tax authorities. Even so, and even in this age of Social Media where people almost compulsively share their innermost thoughts and experiences with largely anonymous crowds, we all try to retain some privacy from the State.

Which of course has become one point of attack by the Democrat Party against the DOGE group and its leader, Elon Musk, with the following as one example of the narrative being pushed in dozens of MSM stories and millions of social media posts:

In a letter Monday to IRS Acting Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell the lawmakers wrote that the proposal raises “serious concerns that Elon Musk and his associates are seeking to weaponize government databases containing private bank records and other confidential information to target American citizens and businesses as part of a political agenda.”

There are many problems with this argument but for me the starter is the question begging involved with trusting the people who have access to the data now, and have always had it:

New disclosure reveals that the Biden IRS leaked taxpayer information of over 405,000 Americans — including President Trump’s. The IRS’s admission confirms the Committee’s suspicion and recent reports that show the scope of the leak was much broader than what the Biden Administration’s IRS initially led the public to believe.

The first article also pointed out previous breaches that were already known, starting with none other than the NSA, a larger spy agency than the CIA. and the revelation back in early 2023, by the DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz that of more than 3.4 million search queries into the NSA database in 2021 by private contractors and federal employees, about 30% were outside the rules and regulations that govern warrantless searches:

That means more than 1 million searches of private documents and communication of Americans were illegal. IG Horowitz also admitted that somewhere north of 10,000 federal employees have workstation access to conduct these searches of the NSA database; a database which contains the electronic data of every single American, including emails, text messages, social media posts, instant messages, direct messages, phone calls, geolocation identifiers, purchases by electronic funds, banking records and any keystroke any American person puts into any electronic device for any reason. 

That made the MSM news for only a couple of days and did not lead to howls and screams from the Democrat Senators listed in that official letter of complaint now made to the IRS commissioner.

On the note of people’s idiocies on Social Media and the IRS, herewith perhaps the best one so far, captured by Libs of TikTok:

TikToker who admits she hasn’t filed taxes in 8 years calls for Elon to be assassinated

She admits, on camera, that she has been dodging paying her taxes for eight years and, in the same rant, calls for the assassination of DOGE chief Elon Musk. The Chef’s Kiss is that U.S. Attorney Ed Martin promptly responded on X:

Duly noted. Thx for letting us know. We’ll put you in the system. Talk soon, M’am.