Try not paying your property taxes and see what happens to your home. Try not paying into social security. As a business owner, try not filing any one of the hundreds of forms required by the feds, state, and local governments.
Most government agencies have both civil and criminal statutes, not just the IRS.
But isn't that simply complusion through coercion? Do 'such and such' "or else"!
That's just plain wrong on so many levels.