We Don't Work for the IRS, and Never Have

We Don't Work for the IRS, and Never Have

Some years ago, an angry man in Texas flew his airplane into offices of the Internal Revenue Service.

His name was Andrew Joseph Stack III. He was a 53-year-old software consultant.

At the time, many people lamented how this could happen.

Truthfully, I for one didn't.

My reaction was, first, what did the IRS do to so anger this poor man that he would take his life into his hands, while possibly endangering the lives of others?

Government bureaucrats should quake in fear at the citizenry, and not abuse the citizenry who pays their salaries

That's the way it is supposed to be, and the way the Framers designed our civic structure.

Unfortunately, an apparent perversion has taken place.

In the last several years, it's citizens who quake in fear at government officials.

Workers imagine the foot of America is on their necks, and that pressure from the government will ultimately break their backs before hard work ever does.

Are IRS employees even human?

In the Bible that tax collectors are more than once designated as some of the worst of humanity - along with beggars, thieves and reprobates?

I know of one instance when a man paid over $50,000 in taxes and the IRS did not even record it! There was no record of the IRS having received the payment.

Consider, this even worse scenario:

When a small business inadvertently doesn't file a quarterly return, the Internal Revenue Service on its own declares an amount owed, then demands it from the proprietor.

And trying to reach the IRS, as the average citizen, is nothing short of a wrenching struggle.

Benjamin Franklin once said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

This was echoed, in a more defensive way, by the French minister of finance under the Sun King Louis XIV.

The 17th century minister to the king whose absolute rule and status as the sole inheritor of the state once said, "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing."

Americans have been plucked enough.

It's time for Americans to let their congressman and senators know, in no uncertain terms, they won't be pushed around - by those who supposedly work for us, and that we don’t work for them, and never have.

Presidential Historian and Reagan biographer Craig Shirley is a prolific author and has written many articles and essays on politics, and the conservative movement. Read more Craig Shirley Insdier articles — Click Here Now.