Government, at all levels, controls about 45-50% of our GDP.
Americans trust in government came from a time when government was local, and Fed.gov was tiny. That was already a couple generations ago, and Americans’ cynicism about government is rising quickly.
Moreover, we now have a massive nanny state, not very different in size and scope from Russia or China’s.
As such, when such power and money is at stake, powerful organs like the IRS will automatically become corrupted. It is unavoidable.
FU IRS!
The Progressive Income tax and the Federal Reserve System were implemented to harness the economy of the US and turn it into a money printing machine for “the right people”. It did this while turning free people into wage slaves
. These two events drove people off of their family farms and into the factories. Turning people into a driver of “others” wealth instead of their own.
My Grandfather had a homestead where he prospered until the collapse of the money supply, called popularly “The Great Depression”. He and many others ended up selling their land to pay taxes instituted and raised by politicians to give money to the poor.
My own Father ended up working for the CCC and supporting the family, but his dad couldn’t buy a job. He was not who they were looking to employ, my dad was 15 and malleable. He ended up a lifetime Democrat minion and fan of CNN/MSNBC. His Father, old and worn out at 40, was full of hate for the government. In just one government caused money scare, this nation went from freedom to slavery.