Never happen; there’s never been a bureaucracy the characters in Washington couldn’t love - and the bigger and more complex, the better.
The whole mess that no one but a ‘lifer’ can understand makes ‘em feel important.
IMO you have missed the target.
The issue is not the continued existence of a bureaucracy (IRS).
The real issue is the amount of power that Congress will lose.
The tax code is no longer based on what is necessary to runt he Republic, as our founding fathers envisioned.
It is now a system of rewarding selected sub-groups, forcing actions upon others, and shaking down still others for reelection contributions. Who benefits the most from the existing tax code? Congress. And it is Congress who will have to scrap the existing tax code for another.
What? Give up all that power and money? Are you serious Senator Cruz?
Fir instance, someone is DoD proposed to contract out the commissary system. The interested parties descended like a ton of bricks on him.
Nice chatter from Cruz, but there’s too much at stake keeping it as is.