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All organizations, government or business, large or small, operate with some inefficiency. It would be great if all inefficiency could be eliminated but, at best, in the "real world" it can only be reduced to an acceptable minimum. For the sake of this discussion let us assume that all federal government inefficiency has been reduced to this minimum level, what functions of federal government, if any, would you want to see eliminated?

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The solution discusses what function of federal government they would want to see eliminated if assumed that all federal government inefficiency has been reduced to minimum level.

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If the entire government waste could be wiped out with the wave of a magic wand, there are still some government agencies that in and of themselves are not really set up to operate in an efficient manner. An example of this is the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS collects money for income taxes from both companies and individuals. They have auditors ...

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