Infernal Revenue Service, etc.
A satanic cabal of bureaucrats that believes in plundering the wealth of taxpayers to fund projects like the
ghetto school program, Iraq reconstruction and other forms of income redistribution from the middle class to the government.
One of the last remaining remnants of
socialism in an otherwise free-market economy.
Was christened (originally the "Bureau of Revenue") in 1913 along with the Federal Reserve. See 16th Amendment of the US Constitution. Ratified by 38 states and signed into law by
Republican William Howard Taft, who came in third place in the 1912 elections (behind
Democrat Woodrow
Wilson and Bull Moose candidate Teddy Roosevelt).
Quite possibly deepened the Great Depression of the 1930s, which was much worse than the economic depressions of the 19th Century.
Federal income tax had been ruled unconstitutional two times earlier by the Supreme Court in the late 1800s.
First set at less than 5% under the administration of Abraham Lincoln in 1862, and was voluntarily abandoned by the feds after the Civil
War (imagine that today).
The marketplace giveth, and the IRS taketh away.
It's impossible to get out of child support, subsidized student loans, state taxes and federal obligations to the IRS.
The IRS is taking
15% of grandma's Social Security
check, because she won too many
bingo games.