Rep. Paul Ryan laid into one of the most arrogant
bureaucrats in Washington D.C. IRS
Commissioner John Koskinen denied any wrong doing. He even refused to apology to the American people
for not being forthright and destroying evidence. Who can we thank for unleashing this hell
hound agency on unsuspecting, innocent citizens?
The Internal
Revenue Service spawned from the Progressive era. I’m sure liberals didn’t foresee one of their
hallmark achievements, the 16th Amendment, as a catalyst for
oppression and governmental abuse. After
all, we’re told, we must judge progressives on their intentions and not the results
of their actions, all of which are proven failures.
Human Events reports the fundamental transformation
of the IRS as a tax collecting service to a thug agency implicitly taking
orders from a Chicago mobster:
Over the past hundred years, the tax code has swelled from
400 pages to almost 74,000. The top rate is 39.6 percent; add in state
and local taxes, and you’ve got the government soaking up over half of every
marginal dollar earned by the Evil Rich. And the top bracket crashes down
on those who earn over $450k, which is the new functional definition of a
“millionaire.” Every new tax – from the income tax itself, to the
Alternative Minimum Tax and its prospective stepchild, the “Buffett Rule” – is
sold as a small levy on the vast wealth of millionaires. The AMT was only
supposed to affect a couple of hundred people when it was implemented in 1969,
but now it’s on the verge of grabbing 50
million taxpayers, if it’s not “fixed.” In the early years of
the income tax, Americans were likewise assured that it would only slip a few
dollars from the bulging wallets of the wealthy.
Allowing the government to sink its feeding tubes into the
veins of American income has fueled astonishing government growth. That
first itty bitty tax levy brought in a paltry $16.6 billion in revenue,
adjusted for the past century of inflation. Today the income tax brings
in $2.7 trillion. Government inevitably grows to fill, and exceed, the
space made available for it.
And when government
grows, freedom diminishes. You can
practically feel liberty being squeezed from every fiber of our being.
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