Nothing personal but your post is idiotic.
Clipped from FactSheet: The text of the United States Revenue Act of 1913, is generally considered to be the original tax code. Combined, these documents were approximately 27 pages in length, and the pages measured six by nine inches (under 20 pages normal paper).
Today that code is today is a 73,954 page, 25 - volume service called CCH Standard Federal Tax Reporter.
I doubt we need a 12.9 billion dollar IRS agency if the tax code was less than 20 pages. And no we don’t need an agency that goes after political enemies and so corrupt can not be fixed with tweaks, it must be destroyed.
By the way Cruz likely has 50 points of IQ on you (so quit the childish attacks) and if he thinks he can abolish and rebuild an abomination I am all for it.
The Internal Revenue Code, which you have probably never seen, let alone read, is technically only 5,368 pages. That's just the Code itself, not including the regulations, annotations to court cases, revenue rulings, explanatory material, and other IRS documents. If you strip out the indexes and other material which are not part of the Code its really only 5,084 pages.
The Income Tax Regulations, which are not technically part of the Code, but help to explain it amount to 13,880 pages. So where does your 73,954 figure come from?
The Hinckley spokeswoman directed us to a colorful chart by CCH that shows how the number of pages in one of its publications, "CCH Standard Federal Tax Reporter," has increased over the years. Its 2011 edition has 72,536 pages.
But that publication isn't just the tax code. "That includes the code, regs, annotations to court cases, revenue rulings, explanatory material, other things that come out of the IRS that are not regulations," said Mark Luscombe, principal analyst for the tax and accounting group at CCH. "But some politicians and media have picked that up and called it the code, which is not correct."