...it's a great opportunity to save cost and stay away from International Unethical!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/doge-deputy-treasury-secretary-dish-crusade-pull-irs-out-its-really-big-hole
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DOGE has shown the utter incompetence of Musk and his goons.
Maybe with all the savings, the US government could build a humongous abacus instead, which would be operated by robots.
This might be the d-mbest post I've ever seen.
The best thing the IRS could do is hire 10 times as many investigators and go after tax cheating billionaires and companies. Of course that is the last thing Republicans want.
The big banks can't migrate off mainframes because 1) nothing else out there can process that volume of transactions while offering 5-9's uptime and 2) the systems have 30+ years of incremental business logic embedded in reams of impenetrable COBOL code.
Most of the governments using mainframes are using them for payroll and benefits type stuff. The private sector mostly got off mainframes for that and replaced with readily available COTS software like SAP and Oracle in the late 1990s and early 2000s. There's no reason for governments to be running these systems on mainframes in 2025, and not just federal but state/local too.
Not even big banks are able to get out of the Mainframe hole. What makes you think that a 19 year old who can't even maintain a spreadsheet and thought that 150 year olds (https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/) have SSA payments?