They just don't get it!
Why try to reform something that can't be permanently fixed? Why not just abolish the graduated income tax and the IRS? Why not replace the repressive tax code with tariffs and a flat consumption tax? This would soak the rich, encourage savings and investment, greatly reduce repressive government, and give citizens a clear idea of their tax burden. Isn't this what we all claim to want ... even Liberals?
I think we had a number of folks at the IRS participating in criminal activity. I don’t think this is indicative of what the IRS is all about.
What the IRS is all about, is bad enough on it’s own.
Yes the IRS either needs to be abolished, or severely reduced. This only happens with the changing of the way the government collects taxes from citizens.
The crimes the IRS is now recognized for having perpetrated, are terrible, but they are not the standard operating procedure (as far as we know).
We should keep our animosity narrowly focused on this outrageous behavior, and not allow the incident to get pushed aside in a larger effort.
Heads must roll for these acts.
And next the tax code and the IRS need to be slimmed down to a reasonable size.
“Why not replace the repressive tax code with tariffs and a flat consumption tax? “
The way they got the income tax passed was as a flat rate. That was the only fair way, they said. Then, the next year they set about making it fairer. Diddling with the tax code is how senators get PAC money. If they don’t have the code to fiddle with then they won’t get the PAC money. That is why the tax code will never be fixed, simplified or changed to a flat rate.
Those are the answers in my opinion. I would go just a little further and say a consumption tax should have no exceptions. All exceptions do is provide a devil’s playground for people trying to manipulate other people.
I have no doubt that the simplicity of such a tax would reduce the costs of good and services enough by eliminating administrative overhead to businesses and the net effect would be just about price neutral.
As long as we allow politicians to use tax policy to coerce behavior, the potential abuse of power will always be with us, and it will be abused as sure as the sun rises.
There,fixed it!
“IRS scandal shows agency ‘rotten at the core,’ needs major reform”
Don’t lose track of these other agencies following in the IRS footsteps. As of yesterday all have been found to have been right on the heals of an IRS audit. Only if you are right leaning of course.
Reform, No. Elimination, Yes!
Reform?
Eliminate!
The IRS isn’t the only corrupt agency. Likely there isn’t an agency in DC that isn’t just as nasty. This is why God does everyone a favor and permits complete overhauls every once in a while.
Bring in the Fair Tax
start the drum beat
Reform won’t do it. The agency is a giant welfare organization and practices “affirmative action” on steroids. It takes money from the productive and gives it to indolent slackers who vote democrat.
It is much more than a tax collection agency. It is the enforcer of several laws. It uses KGB tactics.
Reforming something that is corrupt won’t do it.
You don’t get it, you and everyone else who keeps screaming flat tax. NO INCOME TAXES AT ALL is what we need in this country, before the 16th was ratified we got along just fine with out an income tax. We need a national sales tax and tariffs, plus we need to reduce the size of our government. The income tax we have now started as a flat tax “only on the rich” and look what it has become. NO to income taxes of any sort.
On the one side the Republicans will want to trash the
IRS because it is beyond repair. On the other hand we
have the Democrats who believe only a minor tweaking is
needed. These are the same folks who thought that the Abu
Ghraib and Valerie Plame incidents were serious biz
while Fast and Furious and Benghazi were “sideshows”.
In my mind I don’t think there is any aspect of life that
today’s activist Democrats will not attempt to politicize
if they can milk some kind of advantage out of it at
some point and it doesn’t matter if we are talking pri-
vate organizations or government agencies....AARP,
League of Women Voters, EPA, PTA, NEA....it doesn’t
matter. If there is anything remotely political associ-
ated with it then libs want to control it....and they do.
So, whatever we do about the IRS we must remember
if we don’t address that treacherous union affiliated
with the IRS agents then we are just in for another
screwin’ down the road. Add my name to the list of
fed-up Americans who would favor sending those bastards
all to hell.
It’s operated and ran by a stinking union! There is no way it gets reformed unless the union is tossed out!
Reforming an agency like the IRS is an exercise in colossal futility. If we must keep the income tax make it 9% on every dime of personal income- no deductions, exemptions, or credits. Make the 9% Constitutional in an Amendment. No more need for IRS. The downside is the short term increase in the unemployment rolls as all those IRS folks have to go find jobs. And all those tax attorneys. Etc. Lots of money would come home from offshore.
