
<p>In President Biden’s inappropriately named Inflation Reduction Bill there is a big boost in power for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). ; The Bill includes $80 billion to hire 87,000 new agents ostensibly to track down high-income folks who are cheating on their taxes. ; Uh huh. ; Incidentally, that comes to more than $900,000 per new agent. ; There is a lot of room for mischief in that amount of money.</p>



<p>The IRS did not always exist … and maybe it should not have. ; You will not find the IRS enshrined in the Constitution. ; It was created in 1862 with the appointment of a Commissioner of Internal Revenue as part of the Treasury Department to collect a TEMPORARY income tax to finance the Civil War. ; True to their word, the temporary income tax &#8212; and the Commission on Internal Revenue &#8212; closed shop a decade later.</p>



<p>In 1913, the newly elected progressive President Woodrow Wilson brought back the income tax and the Commission – which was later renamed as the Internal Revenue Service. ; At the time, Democrat proponents assured the American people that the income tax would never exceed 10 percent on the richest Americans. ; Uh huh.</p>



<p>Since that time, the IRS has evolved into one of the largest and most feared of the federal agencies. ; It is larger than the State Department and the Justice Department combined – and that includes the FBI.</p>



<p>Their collection procedures are among the most severe and dangerous of any collection agency in the nation. ; They have the unique power to seize personal property and bank accounts at will – without a court order. ; Those whose property and/or money is confiscated have no effective means to object – and the ability to appeal is an entirely internal process. ; The appeals are often handled by the same individuals at the IRS who make the initial decisions. ; ;</p>



<p>Those they deem to be in arrears of the payments to Uncle Sam are subjected to exorbitant fines and penalties that quickly exceed the allegedly owed money.</p>



<p>The IRS monitors the bank accounts of every American. ; Banks are require to report legal transfers and withdrawals of money from private bank accounts upon which no taxes are due.</p>



<p>When tied to automatic payroll deduction, the IRS set the stage for almost unlimited taxation – and the cancerous growth of the federal bureaucracy that we see today. ; It is bankrolling authoritarian oppression by funding the growth of federal power – dismantling the Constitutional rights of states and the people to due process. ; ;</p>



<p>Go check out the Tenth Amendment if you want to understand what the Founders meant by federalism – and the inalienable rights of we the people. ; Oh hell … I will save you the Internet search. ; Here is the Tenth Amendment.</p>



<p><em>“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”</em></p>



<p>If you think almost doubling the number of IRS agents from 90,000 to 178, 000 is just adding more accounts to the government payroll – and that is bad enough&#8211; you have not seen the IRS job application request. ; It tells wannabe IRS agents that they can carry guns, make arrests and even use deadly force. ; The IRS has since taken down that language from its website – but those are still part of the official job description.</p>



<p>There is actually a way to abolish the IRS. ; It would be a National Sales Tax – along with a constitutional amendment to abolish the income tax. (That is necessary or the reprobates in Washington will eventually reinstate the income tax over above national sales tax – making things worse than ever.)</p>



<p>The money would be collected by the businesses – just as they are the tax collection agents for sales and other taxes. ; They already collect the income tax in the form of the payroll tax. ; The systems and infrastructure are already in place.</p>



<p>Since sales taxes are regressive – in that they hit the hardest on the poor – you make the National Sales Tax somewhat progressive. ; That means removing the tax on medicines and essential foods and applying an excise or luxury tax on high end items.</p>



<p>Not only will the rich folks pay more because they purchase more – there will be no loopholes. ; No zeroing out the tax. ; And imagine a world without filing tax returns, no fines and penalties for mistakes. ; No audits. ; And one of the largest –and most expensive – agencies of government disappears. ; The Founders would have liked that.</p>



<p>Unfortunately, there is so much political money flowing to and from the tax attorneys and accountants that there is virtually no hope of ending the role of the IRS (But I can dream, can’t I). ; In view of the Biden legislation, the situation will only get worse – much worse &#8212; for the American people in the future.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

God save America from the IRS … and those 87,000 new gun-toting agents
