"Lord Acton reminded us that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Let’s cut the IRS in half (or more), and cut HHS and the Department of Justice as well. Many people are watching scandal-a-day government with horror, and public sentiment may be ready to slash the size and power of government, and thereby increase the amount of freedom in all of our lives."
Scandal-A-Day Government: Why?
by on MAY 15, 2013
The U.S. federal bureaucracy is simply too large. That broad point is easy to lose in the particulars over the Benghazi deaths, the IRS targeting of conservatives, the Justice Department’s secret investigation of the AP, and the Department of Health and Human Services subtly forcing insurance companies to cough up cash to publicize the wonders of Obamacare.
These scandals need to be fully investigated and justice needs to be served if laws were broken. But the larger point must always be at hand: government is too big, and when big government occurs, big scandals inevitably emerge. The Founders knew that, and that’s why they limited government to national defense, delivering the mail, and setting up federal election rules. The Founders believed that government was a source of danger, not a source of action and reform. ...
... Congress abolished the Civil War income tax in 1872.
By 1913, we had the income tax back (the 16th Amendment), but only a few people had to pay it. The IRS was still small. Then came Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal in 1933. FDR promoted government programs as the solution to the problem of the Great Depression. After almost eight years of lavish New Deal spending, unemployment neared 20% in 1939. The spending stimulus, then as now, did not work. But FDR raised tax rates on almost everyone during his presidency. The IRS grew and became FDR’s political tool. In fact, Elliott Roosevelt, the president’s son, said, “My father may have been the originator of the concept of employing the IRS as a weapon of political retribution.”
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