[Calpernia]

I think if we went to flat tax, we could get rid of the IRS. Just saying that the idea of no IRS is workable.

[Captain Kirk]

We didn't have a flat tax or an income tax before 1913 and got along fine.

[EternalVigilance]

What you think is not important for the purposes of this discussion. It’s what the candidates for POTUS think that matters.

And I don’t see Ron Paul offering up any practical, workable, constitutional, replacement for the income tax.

Minus that, his rhetoric is nothing more than demagoguery.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

I think if we went to flat tax, we could get rid of the IRS. Just saying that the idea of no IRS is workable.

No it's not.

i'm a Ron Paul supporter, and here to tell you that the statement is hyperbole. It doesn't make any sense if taken literally.

The IRS stands for the Internal Revenue Service, not the Internal Tax Service.

Income taxes make up far less than half of all Government Revenue.

When Paul or others speak of getting rid of the IRS, they speak of the Tax Collection and Tax Code Enforcement divisions. They still need to account for in coming revenue from non-income tax sources.

Many functions could be transferred over to the GAO, but not all of them.

The IRS as an organisation isn't going anywhere, no matter who is in the White House or in Congress.