The computers is only part of the story. The other part is reduced staffing.
Yeah, this is the old triple, triple whammy,
cut budgets and staffing,
don't hire new young employees to learn to do the jobs,
do whatever possible to get rid of the older workers who know the jobs so they are not there to train new workers,
make big loud public spectacles of attacking the agency for not fulfilling their role,
appoint your antigovernment anarchist flunkies in charge and then start privatizing it,
at least one oligarch should be able to milk this for decades.
It isn't just the IRS, it's also the department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service and every other science or fact based agency. The scientists and project leaders were forced out by headquarters moves and creating toxic work environments and sidelining them and forbidding attendance at scientific conferences, and forbidding speaking out or be smeared publicly.
Remember Trump's imaginary steel mills that were coming on line every day? Of course we know they are imaginary, but notice that The Turd never said who was going to train all those workers how to run a steel mill, or even build the furnaces and forges.
The expertise we have lost is staggering and will prove fatal for the United States of America.
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty PythonOne important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq