You both got it wrong on IRS. The IRS spend 95% of their time on checking deductions by individuals and businesses, and auditing the tax payers, and placing leans on tax payer bank accounts, and fighting tax payers in tax courts.
Above is necessary because of the 70,000 pages long tax code and 10,000 business and individual deductions.
If the tax system was straight forward with few or no deductions, 95% of IRS work goes away.
Even the fair tax (sales tax) requires some agency to collect taxes and make sure no one is cheating.
So tax collection never goes away under any system proposed, but the number of IRS agents drop by 95%.
I agree that the IRS staff could be REDUCED..probably significantly.... but, not "abolished"... Abolished means, GOES AWAY.
Not going to happen as long as INCOME is the basis. What is income? It ain't just wages. There are LOTS of kinds of income, and they all require an intrusive government agency... the IRS.. to check and verify that we're all reporting it correctly.
I agree that the IRS staff could be REDUCED..probably significantly.... but, not "abolished"... Abolished means, GOES AWAY.
Not going to happen as long as INCOME is the basis. What is income? It ain't just wages. There are LOTS of kinds of income, and they all require an intrusive government agency... the IRS.. to check and verify that we're all reporting it correctly.
The 95% unemployed IRS agents, would be a welcomed addition to Our unskilled labor force, now idled. Perhaps the beans, could actually be picked and counted, by these wonderful tax burden officials.