Inasmuch as I'd like to see them get burned off the body American like the blood-sucking ticks they are, it wouldn't matter if you imposed a flat tax, or even abolished the federal income tax on individuals altogether. There are so many other areas of regulatory compliance oversight in their dominion, all it would do is re-focus their mission statement. They could even be diminished and dismantled to the point where they'd be absorbed by another department within Treasury, but they'd still be there hiding in the bushes, wearing nothing but a raincoat and a smile.
