| | The current IRS is a result of government tyranny, not a cause of it. It's an effect of the evil Welfare State, not a cause of it. We need to remember that the problem with government of the past century or two is always and forever spending, not taxes.
I think the top five current predators in the United States are named Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Debt Interest, and Iraq War. It's just too easy to cheap-shot the IRS. Pretty much everyone in the Objectivist/libertarian movement does so, and it doesn't help the movement or discussion at all. It doesn't educate.
What's the alternative to the current IRS? No O/L seems to mention that. So the conversation grinds to a halt, and no-one is enlightened or convinced. The fact is the IRS is an absolute slave to those top five predatory, parasitical, criminal monsters known as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Debt Interest, and the Iraq War. We need to immediately, ruthlessly, savagely smash these five into the ground!
At the least, the O/L community needs to righteously demand it. But I never seem to hear it. So this is a debate O/Ls always lose. What a shame! --since there's absolutely massive sympathy for us here. And there's fairly intense hatred for the IRS. But no-one ever seems to call for cutting spending and then mentioning specific programs. Unless we do so, in my judgment, we're going to lose this discussion every single time. And we're going to deserve the loss.
I say: Instant and utter DEATH to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Debt Interest, and the Iraq War! And any and all O/L leaders which don't loudly, clearly, emphatically call for the same should be ousted as leaders. We need new ones who can do more than just haplessly, helplessly, hopelessly, impotently, pathetically, demagogically flail at the IRS.
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