The IRS has proven, time and again, that not only cannot it be trusted in any fashion, that it spends with profligacy, that it is not accountable, that it — itself — does not have to provide any receipts for the wastrel-like and over-the-top parties it hosts for its own employees.  The arrogance of the IRS is now legion, with no end in sight.

Just this week, most recently, the IRS frakked up by exposing THOUSANDS of social security numbers to the internet for roughly 24 hours.

Repeated: insanity with no consequences whatsoever.  The IRS is proving, time and again and again that it needs to be shuttered and those oppressive employees cast to the four winds to find REAL work.

I say: abolish the IRS now.  Eliminate the IRS code, its thousands and thousands of pages that few — including the IRS — cannot consistently interpret.

Bring in a flat tax.  Set a percentile.  Create a one page form.   ___% of your gross wages = send it in.  Period.

The most logical and the most fair.  No exceptions, no exemptions.  For no one or any thing.

Ted Cruz is about to become my favorite politician — if there can actually be such a thing — via this article from The Washington Post:

Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’

Hours before the House Appropriations Committee held a hearing on political targeting at the Internal Revenue Service, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) had a simple solution to the agency’s problems — get rid of it altogether.

“I think we ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax where the average American can fill out taxes on postcard,” he explained in a Fox News interview over the weekend. “Put down how much you earn, put down a deduction for charitable contributions, home mortgage and how much you owe. It ought to be a simple one-page postcard, and take the agents, the bureaucracy out of Washington and limit the power of government.”

And the “necessity” for another 14,000 blood-sucking IRS agents would be null and void.

Simple and elegant.

BZ

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