in david foster wallace's archive, he wrote to this like ex-IRS guy & asked "how many ppl not paying their taxes would it take for society to collapse?" & the guy was like "listen, we studied this extensively & we know the answer & nobody will ever tell you the answer."
lol actually this is truly IRS-coded bc they also know how much you owe them but will never just tell you how much you owe them
@sarahroseetter He was pretty into taxes/the IRS, his posthumous novella was entirely about becoming an IRS agent.
@sarahroseetter Where can I find this? I believe it I just wanna see it for myself
@sarahroseetter Half already are net tax negative.
@sarahroseetter The answer is "infinity" because government income and expenditures in the United States do not rely on tax collection