Every
year the 89,000 employees of the Internal Revenue Service attempt to enforce
the tax laws for well over 200 million taxpayers. Obviously this is impossible
and taxpayers could ignore the law with near impunity. Yet, they don’t. Somehow
the IRS persuades the vast majority of the taxpayers to pay up.
If
the IRS said that it would be inhumane to prosecute tax scofflaws because they
have children that need to eat and that most tax scofflaws are good people who
have run into hard times, what would happen? What would happen is that the
population of tax scofflaws would explode. The tax scofflaws would become
shrouded in moral legitimacy. Any attempt by the IRS to step up enforcement
would be seen as brutal oppression against good people.....To Read More.....
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