The presidential administrations of
Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill
Clinton, and, now, Barack Obama have all been caught using the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) to target political enemies.
As long as we have the IRS — and the
income tax — we should expect more presidents to use their power to silence and
intimidate free voices. No IRS investigation or firing of a few scapegoats will
change that.
"We must abolish the IRS and end
any need for a regulatory agency that snoops into people's private lives,"
said Libertarian Party Executive Director Carla Howell. "We must draw back
total federal spending to the level of 1992, which is more than enough to
fulfill the government's constitutional duties to protect our life, liberty,
and property. This will allow us to balance the budget immediately, end the
federal income tax completely, and give back an average of more than $12,000 to
every family in America."
"We don't need an income tax, and
we certainly don't need the IRS," Howell said.
The Libertarian Party is the only
political party in America calling for both dismantling the IRS altogether and
dramatically and immediately downsizing Big Government.
"The Libertarian Party is running
candidates to dramatically downsize the federal government," Howell said.
"We can cut federal spending by 50 percent, or even 90 percent, and
Americans will be better for it. We can end the personal income tax, the
corporate income tax, the death tax, and all federal payroll taxes. There will
be no need for the IRS, nor any substitute agency."
"Ending the income tax, abolishing
the IRS, and cutting federal spending to the level of 1992 means no more
deficit spending," Howell said. "This will stop inflation and
stabilize prices. Even more importantly, it will transfer wealth out of the
wasteful, dysfunctional and destructive government sector and into the
productive private sector, resulting in a bounty of new jobs and prosperity for
Americans."
"We will make living in America
and doing business in America much better," Howell said.
"Individuals, businesses, and political organizations will all be safe
from government interrogation and free to express their political views. It
will dramatically increase the wealth of the private sector and inspire
hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in small businesses and American
jobs."
Another benefit of abolishing the IRS
is that it would become far more difficult to fund massive interventionist
military presence and warfare around the globe.
"It will also require our massive
military budgets to go down, which currently encourage overseas meddling and
war," Howell said. "We get rid of the IRS, we get rid of the income
tax, we dramatically downsize federal spending and taxation, and America and
the world will be better for it."
