DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AT THE "IRS" ???

[bhikkhu]

6. I don't buy the cheapest stuff at the cheapest price

...especially when it comes to tools. And most of my family and most of the people I know would rather "shop local" (or even shop online) than save a few pennies on imported stuff from a big-box understaffed minimum wage place. Going out of your way to buy the cheapest item at the cheapest price is one reason US manufacturing and retailers are so hollowed out over the last three decades or so. And one reasons that our households are full of disposable crap that can barely perform the functions they were bought for before breaking.

Walmarts and landfills and minimum wage jobs from sea to shining sea are the result, and little else.

Not to disagree with your actual point about the continuity of government regardless of the guy in charge, but the price-shopping example isn't a very good one.