You really can't be that dense. Or can you.
Milei Has Created a New National Tax Collection Agency in Argentina - The old one, he says, was too inefficient in collecting taxes. Translation: More of the hard-earned money of Argentinians will be stolen from them by the state.
Even George Washington did this. And he didn't just win an election - he is directly responsible for ending a lot of lives in furtherance of the idea of reducing taxes, prior to invading and subjugating a backwater that took that idea considerably less seriously than Washington had a mere 10 years earlier.
I don't know what to say - you and I both know this is how it works. Things get super bad, and then someone comes along and says "it has to change!" and gives everyone a mental image of where it's gonna be when they're done reforming, and then every single time they find that point Jefferson talked about and push things back to exactly as egregious as they can be without spilling over the edge and fomenting revolution.
I don't know how you got to understanding that and seeing the scam. I have been working in IT for 24 years and had to get good at seeing patterns and identifying root causes, and once I got pretty good at that is the exact time the RP Revolution happened and I got forced to use that skill on political systems, and it all seems rather obvious.
BUT, back then, exactly the time of the RP Revolution, I was also working on legacy systems and I had the most enjoyable part of my career - the one where I was given free reign over large segments of system and if I made a logical case to my boss that something was irredeemable I was allowed to rewrite the whole bloody thing. So I know that this is not only possible, but nowhere near as painful as people make out. In fact I got in an argument recently when the Crowdstrike thing happened and Elon commanded that Falcon Sensor be removed from all of his systems. And other IT people on the internet were calling BS because you can't just remove security infrastructure like that in 24 hours... and I was actually going to bat for Elon in a couple places, saying things like 'you're only saying this because you've never done it... they could absolutely replace Falcon on all his systems in 24 hours by finding a team of 6-10 competent people who aren't going to F around and have been explicitly granted AUTHORITY to make it happen and know they all get an extra $25k after its successful completion. It's literally that easy.' And I suspect something like that, or at least drastically out of the box, is how he made it happen.
I don't work for Elon but I'm pretty sure you don't get into a position he's in without breaking rules - and I'm hoping the rule he's breaking is the one I was talking about, the unwritten rule that says 'conventional wisdom is correct and we're not even going to try to go against it'. The one that says getting rid of Falcon Sensor is a gigantic project that requires at least 6 weeks of analysis and a team of 50 people and daily 1 hour meetings to make sure everyone's on target and then it gets delayed a couple times.
We all know Trump didn't earn his way into his position the same way but you don't get to stay in that position by following rules all the time, either. There's a chance that it will work. It won't work the way we expect, and probably not even to an extent matching what is being promised. But just like in every other case where the state walks things back from their promises, it might give us something.
