Links: The Slow Death of the IRS

Two things I saw today:

An Emotional Audit: IRS Workers Are Miserable and Overwhelmed

The GOP's Campaign to Make You Hate the IRS is Kind of Genius

Look, the bottom line is, we are always going to have to pay taxes.  This has been going on since biblical times, and we have yet to come up with a society that doesn't have taxes associated with it. As a result, there will always be tax collectors.  The idea of abolishing the IRS is ludicrous.  We're just going to have to replace it with something else.  And that will be the case no matter what kind of tax system we have (income tax, sales tax, property tax, whatever).

And people have always had a love/hate - mostly hate - relationship with the tax collector.  This, too, has been going on since biblical times.  Funny how Jesus' attitude towards tax collectors was a lot different than Ted Cruz's.

Besides, the people who collect the taxes are not the ones we should be criticizing.  I am quite sure that our tax collectors are doing what Jesus said they should do:

12 Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?” 13 “Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them.

Luke 3:12-13.

Your real beef is with those who give the orders.  That would be Congress.

And your, by the way, your state legislatures as well.  At least here in NY, I am sure mine are going to hell for laws like this one.