IRS Abuse is Nothing New

There’s a Long History of Big Government’s Most Notorious Agency Playing Politics

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Well, the first IRS scandal fall boy is on the unemployment line tonight: the agency’s acting commissioner was forced to resign early Wednesday evening.

It’d be neat and easy to dismiss it all as an isolated incident, my friends. Sadly it’s not. Far from it.

h/t Cato Institute for breaking it down:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRRdtPFy68E

So what’s to be done?

As is typically case in these situations, Save Jerseyans, the answer isn’t complicated. Just hard…

Eliminate the damned agency itself! If there was ever an argument for a flat tax, folks, then this IRS mess is it. Everyone would pay something like 10, 12 or 15%. No loopholes, no credits, no rebates, no BS. For those of you who learned math in an Abbott District, 15% works out to $150,000/yr from someone who’s adjusted gross is $1M but just $3,750 from an individual netting $25,000. How hard is this? Not very.

We could push the rate even lower if the Obama DEMs got serious about entitlement reform. One party’s unwillingness to have an adult discussion on the topic is boxing us in.

But that’s a long way off, partly because a reliably stubborn army of bureaucrats, lobbyists and ideologues will hold on to the status quo for dear life. Thousands of new IRS employees are being added to police the mountain of recently-enacted ObamaCare-related regulations. That should be your first clue that my way is the only way.