“what we have now started as a flat tax...
abolish it and institute the fair tax, where the states collect the revenue and the feds have to petition for a percentage”
A flat tax is still an income tax, and would leave the IRS in place.
It punishes productivity, and fails to capture any revenue from the illegal aliens and illegal activities like drugs and prostitution because most of them don’t report their income, but they buy stuff, so with the Fair Tax, they would start paying their share.
The IRS tried to take out the Tea Party, it would be sweet vengeance for the Tea Party to take out the IRS.
Rep Mike Kelly did a good job in one of the hearings, of explaining how the IRS terrorizes Americans with the threat and expense of an audit.
Say no to terrorism - abolish the IRS.
And now we are supposed to trust this monstrous agency with our lives and health?
Every discussion should point out that now is the time for the Fair Tax!!
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer
It matters not if the source of funding is the current income tax, a flat tax, a sales tax, tariffs or some other revenue source....there will ALWAYS be (and ALWAYS has been)an "IRS". It has been called different things at different times, but some federal agency will always exist to collect the revenues due to the federal government.
Saying "abolish the IRS" is simply ludicrous, and will accomplish nothing.