Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Abolish the IRS
We
have been presented with the opportunity of a lifetime and that’s not
hyperbole.
To paraphrase David Axelrod: the government is so “vast”
it’s impossible to know what’s going on.
That’s probably the only intelligent thing he has ever uttered.
Well, he’s absolutely right. It’s gotten so large and out-of-control that it requires storm trooper-like tactics to control the flow of the vast amount of money collected to run it.
Now we’ve learned that the collection department, the IRS, has been targeting groups that oppose the administration.
As an aside — if this scandal is what has surfaced, it’s a cinch there is much more that hasn’t. Just an observation.
Anyone who has been audited knows it may be the most stressful and painful experience this side of childbirth (or so I’ve heard). I thought the government was supposed to work for and be accountable to us, not the other way around.
So for this and a myriad of other reasons, the IRS should be abolished.
We on the right have been putting forth this tired refrain for decades, but there will never be a better chance than now to start advancing this notion.
We could learn a little from the left. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Well, this is a crisis we must not squander.
But the government needs money to operate, you say. You might add that without the threat of IRS persecution (and I do mean persecution), no one would ever pay their taxes.
Nonsense. Other than the most rabid anti-government lunatics, virtually all citizens are willing to pay.
Most citizens just want the collection to be fair and transparent. The current system is neither (and that is deliberate). As Marco Rubio might say: “Let’s bring those who do not pay taxes ‘out of the shadows.’”
The only truly fair and transparent tax is the consumption tax, not the flat tax. Yes, a national sales tax, but let’s not call it that. People already dislike sales taxes.
We need a tax system where everybody has some skin in the game.
One can still cheat the flat tax system by hiding income. The consumption tax is fair and less apt to be corrupted. Black markets will only spring up if the rate is too high.
Of course the consumption tax would have to be an amendment, not just simply a law and takes the place of the 16th amendment, which would have to be repealed first.
The consumption tax is also the epitome of a free-market system. It is also, with few exceptions, the only purely an absolutely voluntary tax. If you don’t wish to pay the tax, don’t purchase the item or service.
It would also take care of those pesky nonprofit tax-free organizations. No one would be tax-free because everyone and every organization must purchase things.
And how much money could corporations and organizations save by simply closing up K Street and not having to beg and bribe Congress for tax breaks?
Simply put, the lefty wizards of smart have admitted that the government has become too large to manage. They have also admitted that they are a bunch of bungling incompetents. Of course they did so, figuring no one will demand change. I’m sure they think that in a couple of weeks the scandals will be forgotten. Let’s not let them forget.
The current tax system is tyranny and the IRS tyrannical. However impossible the task may sound, the time is now to end the tyranny. “Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph” — Thomas Paine, The Crisis (1776).
That’s probably the only intelligent thing he has ever uttered.
Well, he’s absolutely right. It’s gotten so large and out-of-control that it requires storm trooper-like tactics to control the flow of the vast amount of money collected to run it.
Now we’ve learned that the collection department, the IRS, has been targeting groups that oppose the administration.
As an aside — if this scandal is what has surfaced, it’s a cinch there is much more that hasn’t. Just an observation.
Anyone who has been audited knows it may be the most stressful and painful experience this side of childbirth (or so I’ve heard). I thought the government was supposed to work for and be accountable to us, not the other way around.
So for this and a myriad of other reasons, the IRS should be abolished.
We on the right have been putting forth this tired refrain for decades, but there will never be a better chance than now to start advancing this notion.
We could learn a little from the left. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Well, this is a crisis we must not squander.
But the government needs money to operate, you say. You might add that without the threat of IRS persecution (and I do mean persecution), no one would ever pay their taxes.
Nonsense. Other than the most rabid anti-government lunatics, virtually all citizens are willing to pay.
Most citizens just want the collection to be fair and transparent. The current system is neither (and that is deliberate). As Marco Rubio might say: “Let’s bring those who do not pay taxes ‘out of the shadows.’”
The only truly fair and transparent tax is the consumption tax, not the flat tax. Yes, a national sales tax, but let’s not call it that. People already dislike sales taxes.
We need a tax system where everybody has some skin in the game.
One can still cheat the flat tax system by hiding income. The consumption tax is fair and less apt to be corrupted. Black markets will only spring up if the rate is too high.
Of course the consumption tax would have to be an amendment, not just simply a law and takes the place of the 16th amendment, which would have to be repealed first.
The consumption tax is also the epitome of a free-market system. It is also, with few exceptions, the only purely an absolutely voluntary tax. If you don’t wish to pay the tax, don’t purchase the item or service.
It would also take care of those pesky nonprofit tax-free organizations. No one would be tax-free because everyone and every organization must purchase things.
And how much money could corporations and organizations save by simply closing up K Street and not having to beg and bribe Congress for tax breaks?
Simply put, the lefty wizards of smart have admitted that the government has become too large to manage. They have also admitted that they are a bunch of bungling incompetents. Of course they did so, figuring no one will demand change. I’m sure they think that in a couple of weeks the scandals will be forgotten. Let’s not let them forget.
The current tax system is tyranny and the IRS tyrannical. However impossible the task may sound, the time is now to end the tyranny. “Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph” — Thomas Paine, The Crisis (1776).
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I've been preaching this and praying for it for years! Hooray! Someone else feels the same way!
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