The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently tweeted that the U.S. tax code has grown from less than 1.5 million words in 1955 to over 16 million words today. This complexity results i
n Americans spending 6.5 billion hours each year preparing and filing their taxes. The DOGE was named after Musk suggested the name to the DOGE community, and he believed it was a perfect choice.