In honor of tax day on Monday, Twitchy favorite Mary Katharine Ham shared this absolutely outrageous story about how she once made an appointment for in-person help from the IRS only to have the IRS employee connect her with phone support once she was there face-to-face.
MKH writes, “I once made an in-person assistance appt, which IRS discourages, but I waited 2 mos to get appt, went to a dreary, near-empty gov’t office, was called by number to a stall. A person walked in, picked up the phone, called tax assistance number for me, & handed me the receiver”:
I once made an in-person assistance appt, which IRS discourages, but I waited 2 mos to get appt, went to a dreary, near-empty gov’t office, was called by number to a stall. A person walked in, picked up the phone, called tax assistance number for me, & handed me the receiver. 😂 https://t.co/vYbboDyzHa
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 18, 2021
This is hilarious . . . and awful:
This is the greatest story I've ever heard.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) May 18, 2021
And totally expected of our government:
The most far-fetched satire of government bureaucracy couldn't have written better. https://t.co/MEP9xs2q17
— Brian Garst (@BrianGarst) May 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/karr_pe/status/1394446800917090308
Others report the same experience:
Same thing happened to me. I had to drive 90 miles to get to my appt. I had tried by phone initially but the hold time was 288 hours.
— 🇺🇸speppers69🇺🇸 (@speppers69) May 18, 2021
It’s like watching a pile of our tax dollars burn in a bonfire:
I wasn’t even that mad bc it was so perfectly theatrically ridiculous, I was at least entertained.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 18, 2021
It’s entertaining, but that’s about all it is:
Honestly, I couldn’t even be as ragey as I should have been because it was such a theatrically ridiculous confirmation of my priors. You gotta laugh. pic.twitter.com/fKouH9qmRC
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 18, 2021
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