@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v9ld262n4o
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s recent deal with the Internal Revenue Service was by far the most flagrant act of corruption yet
– perhaps in US presidential history.
First, he sued the agency for $10bn for its alleged negligence in guarding his and his companies’ tax returns from being leaked to the press.
Then he dropped the suit in return for a $1.776bn slush fund to repay his friends, possibly including the January 6 insurrectionists, for the suffering inflicted by their criminal penalties.…
@pre@boing.worldDuh.
They want to offer workfare again, a false 'job guarantee' in which the state pays the wages of a worker working for a private company.
Tax-payers pay Tesco's shelf-stackers, and everyone wins somehow.
This plan that keeps coming up is of course a result of the utter take-over and ownership of the government by private multinational capital.
As a result, you can get a politician to propose a policy if and only if that policy transfers more wealth from public ownership into the hands of private multinational capital.
Our governments have become allergic to any idea that the people should own anything at all in common, that there should be any public ownership of anything at all.
Thatcher told them that Government was inefficient, and that's the lie which leads to privately owned water companies being unable to actually supply water, or keep the shit out of the rivers, because the private multinational capital that owns them all gives not one single fuck except for return on capital and fancy financial engineering.
