We absolutely could get rid of the IRS, as we know it! It’s called the FAIR tax, or national sales tax. There would only need to be some agency to make sure retailers were correctly charging the tax at the point of sale. And the best part is that all the States already have sales taxes, and have procedures to ensure that the taxes are properly collected. All you do is add the national sales tax onto transactions.
Bump.
Someone has to collect and enforce the FAIR tax. The IRS is not the problem. Congress is the problem. Congress made the tax code the monster it is.
It is a typical politician's ploy to make laws so complex they are unworkable, and then blame the agency they put in charge.
Except Cruz isn’t advocating that type of tax system.
If you eliminated corporate and individual income tax, and also all the programs for corporate and individual welfare tied to taxation, you could eliminate the “department” called the IRS, and disburse some of the workers to other departments.
But there is no realistic way anybody, even winning both the presidency and a majority of seats in both houses of congress, would achieve that type of change in an 8-year period of time. It might not even be desirable to do so, as the disruption to 10s of millions of honest citizens who have structured their lives around the current tax code would suggest providing a phase-in period, to be fair.
What we need is an IRS properly focused on their job, and not one that is attacking citizens for their political views.
But that does not solve the problem of the parasites sucking off the govey teat! Every person in this country needs to have skin in the game. No give backs, and no free rides. A minimum tax of at least 3-5,000$ should be paid in by each person who is of a tax-eligible age. Maybe age 21 or older, etc. That way, youngsters who graduated from high school get a 3-year hiatus or start before needing to pay into the system.