Elected Federal
officials can be voted out of office. But the entrenched army of empowered,
unelected Federal bureaucrats remains to wield its power, and the Internal
Revenue Service bureaucrats are some of the worst. Six years ago I published
an article
in The Freeman on the
incompatibility of the tax code and liberty, and the threat to liberty
continues unabated.
Friedrich Hayek
described the process by which bureaucratic empowerment and discretion
extirpates personal liberty and democracy as “the road to serfdom.”He warned us
all that socialism requires bureaucratization. In the socialist state
bureaucrats would become the new aristocracy and its citizens would take on the
role of serf. My article argued that similar dangers existed with increasing
the powers of the IRS bureaucracy, and that democracy could not be relied upon
to hold it in check. Recent abuses validate this fear. Any agency without
restraint and accountability is a threat to personal freedom and should be
abolished… As long as unelected, empowered bureaucrats
with tenure run the IRS, there is no solution but to abolish it and the Federal
Tax Code along with it…. Congress should pass a sunset provision on both the
IRS and the Federal Tax Code. Strong feelings of discontent with Obama and the
IRS create a temporary opportunity to enact real solutions to recurring
IRS abuses. Americans should move against the IRS quickly before these feelings
of discontent fade. ……To Read More….
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