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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(11,473 posts) Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:51 AM Yesterday

Recognize this address: IRS, Ogden Utah? Trump admin has decimated one of largest employer in a deep red state

Those of us the western US file our taxes at this address

Trump's mass firings decimate city's 'largest employer' in deep-red state - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-utah/

In an article published by Mother Jones, however, reporter Stephanie Mencimer emphasizes that Utah's staunch GOP voting record isn't preventing Trump and his allies from killing jobs at one of the state's biggest employers: an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) center in Ogden.

"Before President Donald Trump took office in January," Mencimer explains, "the IRS offices in Ogden collectively employed about 7500 people, making the city economy more reliant on the federal bureaucracy than on its famous powder skiing. Everyone who lives in Ogden knows someone who works for the taxman. Husbands and wives, parents and children — IRS employment is often a family affair. But this Western outpost of the federal government lies deep within MAGA territory."

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Mencimer add, "By June 4, the agency had hemorrhaged more than a quarter of its national workforce — about 26,000 people. Union officials expected that about 20 percent of the IRS employees in Ogden — about 1500 — would no longer be there by the end of September."

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Recognize this address: IRS, Ogden Utah? Trump admin has decimated one of largest employer in a deep red state (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Yesterday OP

Keep in mind when Traitor Nazi does Cha Yesterday #1

"Do not ascribe to malfeasance that which can be explained by incompetence" Bernardo de La Paz 23 hrs ago #2

My home town Redleg 14 hrs ago #3

Cha

(314,709 posts)

1. Keep in mind when Traitor Nazi does

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:37 AM

Yesterday

shit like this... that it's Putin approved... he wants to destroy America.. so this is a stepping stone.

IMO

Kamala would have Left You Alone IRS Ogden Utah.

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,143 posts)

2. "Do not ascribe to malfeasance that which can be explained by incompetence"

Reply to Cha (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:21 AM

23 hrs ago

Always claiming Putin (Russia) is causing tRump to destroy America is a lazy way of thinking that makes people blind to what's really going on.

tRump and his gang (cabinet) and including even people deceased like Kirk are not genuflecting in the direction of Moscow five times a day. They believe that they are saving America (for the 1% ), but they are incompetent and short-sighted.

They think they can fool the public and get them to endure a lot of pain for a long time by saying it will only be a little pain for a short time. They are wrong, and not many jobs would ever be onshored. Further, they believe they will be filthy rich when AI and robots put everyone out of work. They are short-sighted because they believe that the current levels of wealth and income inequality are sustainable. The levels are not historically sustainable and they are getting worse.

Redleg

(6,640 posts)

3. My home town

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 12:36 PM

14 hrs ago

The IRS is really a big deal there. They have been shrinking for some years now but this will be a big loss. Just south of Ogden is Hill Air Force Base which is also a huge civilian employer.

I moved away in 1996 but still think of it as my home town.

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