The purpose of the irs is to put into practice a massive transfer of money from those who earn it to those who vote for benefits.
The irs enforces an impossible tangle of laws, purposely made so complex that no one is capable of seeing where all the money goes, and comes from.
The tax laws create the illusion of tax breaks for some at the expense of others, with the result that individuals guard their breaks jealously, at the expense of others.
The irs is a massive beaurocracy, endowed with the power to place people in prison and to take all their money.
There is no appeal from the irs. The irs has infinite resources, time, and legal services to call upon. The individual can only hold on so long before going bankrupt.
The irs employs a huge number of people, all committed to the goal of taking money from those who earn it and giving it to those who vote the right way. At least half of irs employees are affirmative action hires - place holders, while the actual work is done by the other half.
The irs is an instrument of social engineering. The irs helps bring about social change by enforcing laws that are not about taxation.
If the irs were abolished, and all its employees were forced to find a real job, the wailing would be audible as far as the moon. But it would be worth it.
A few flies in the ointment.
1. The only thing “fair” in life sells cotton candy and usually has a ferris wheel.
2. Changing to a “fair tax” still requires a tax collecting agency so the likelihood of abolishing the IRS is nil.
3. Unless the Constitution is amended, if a consumption tax (fair tax) law was passed and signed into law, the next session of Congress would have nothing preventing them from passing a new law bringing the income tax back and taxing us with both a consumption tax and an income tax and turning the consumption tax into a VAT (Value added) tax.
Just sayin.....