[justlurking]

I know that many would like to abolish the IRS, but it isn’t realistic.

However, we could gut their abuses with one simple change, force them to the same standard as criminal prosecution: innocent until proven guilty.

Prohibit audits unless the IRS can prove an articulable suspicion that a taxpayer has violated the tax code. No more fishing expeditions.

Am audit cost me over $1000 last year. They didn’t allege anything was wrong, and the outcome of the audit was no change. I can’t even deduct the cost because we no longer itemize.

[upsdriver]

I know that many would like to abolish the IRS, but it isn’t realistic.

Get rid of the federal income tax and you get rid of the IRS.

[Mr. Jeeves]

However, we could gut their abuses with one simple change, force them to the same standard as criminal prosecution: innocent until proven guilty.

I like that idea, but our biggest obstacle is that to both parties Big Government in general and the IRS in particular are like a shiny new Mercedes-Benz S65 sedan - each may decry the other side for overspending on it and the lousy gas mileage it gets, but each side's dearest dream is to take over the keys and head out to the autobahn. :)