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[–] senpaithatignoresyou 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

In their defense, they may just be too stupid to do their taxes correctly.

You see, the IRS has a very hard time getting accountants. A government internship is unpaid, where as an accounting internship can net you up to 30 dollars an hour, on top of getting you foot in the door at a high paid accounting job.

So the good talent goes off to the big 4, or a good firm, and helps the rich stay richer.

BUT, if you fail out of college with a d- in 18 credit hours of accounting + business law, then you can be an IRS agent. so basically they are all the business school washouts.

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[–] HowieCameUnglued 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This is true with the SEC as well. Often when SEC investigators go in to audit somewhere, they ask for a job afterwards.

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[–] senpaithatignoresyou ago 

It sounds like you might be suggesting crappy government employees has something to do with wages and competition in a free labor market?

Suggesting? this is a fact. It is something the democrats are VERY quiet about. They never mention that all the government and political internships are unpaid.

These are not political science majors, gender study majors, African rhetoric or English majors that we are talking about here, these are accounting grads. These are people that had to work hard in college, and as a result can get a good paying job anywhere.

These are kids that are worth something. So why work at the government, making peanuts, when you can get a good career, being useful to the world, and make six figures after 4 years?

The obama government did not understand this. This is why we have had so much ineptitude out of the government over the last decade.

It is why Deloitte is taking over a lot of state government positions.