Taibbi received a personal visit from an IRS agent, which is unusual. Normally the IRS sends paper letters to bill you or request corrections.
Here’s a good application of my rule for trustifying.
Follow personal experience. When I’ve been observing or dealing with an entity for a while, how often has the entity disagreed with my personal knowledge or training?
I trust the IRS completely. I’ve been submitting returns for 55 years. When I overpay, they send a check. When I underpay, they send a bill. Simple real world arithmetic. After I go back and check my numbers, I see that the IRS is right and I’m wrong. In other words, I trust IRS more than I trust myself!
I don’t trust Taibbi. His observations about media and history are provably wrong, and his current “revelation” is too much like Deepstate’s “revelations”. He won’t reveal sources or methods. He accepts the limited material that Elon selects for him, without trying to go beyond Elon’s editing.
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