02-07-2009, 05:01 PM
deckeda wrote:Before IRS the Federal government managed to fulfill its objective functions, ie defend the citizens from outside threats without taking money from some of its citizens to give to others in order to buy political influence.
"If the government is in the business of forcefully taking money from some people" << sound right to you? That's government's objective? What about prior to the IRS' existence? Did government ever have functions back then? Did they all disappear? If so, when?
They still managed to buy political influence on what they had....