IRS, How do you punish it, them?

Taxation: A federal judge says the IRS can’t be trusted. Well, he’s right. So when will people in this country finally rise up and force Washington to get rid of this awful agency?
Because a holiday called Emancipation Day was celebrated Friday in the capital district, Americans have a few extra days to file their taxes this year. But the IRS remains, as does its institutionalized abuse of taxpayers. There is no emancipation from the torment of taxation, nor the agents of its collection, on the horizon.
Americans need relief, however. Taxes eat away at our substance, and the IRS makes this all the more intolerable because it decided long ago to be a wedge of enmity between a growing federal government and an ostensibly free people. This strained relationship has deteriorated to the point that the IRS targeted for persecution groups and individuals that it doesn’t like. Organizations that identified as Tea Party and conservative were harassed to the point that some of the victims decided to sue.
It’s hard to be upbeat on April 15, even when tax filing day is delayed. Yet there is a scintilla of hope to be found when a federal official rightly characterizes the IRS as an institution whose word is of little value.
“It’s hard to find the IRS to be an agency we can trust,” Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, said Thursday during oral arguments in one of the lawsuits filed against the tax collector in the targeting scandal.
The Washington Times reported that during the hearing Sentelle “said there is strong evidence that the IRS violated the constitutional rights of the groups when it delayed their nonprofit status applications and asked inappropriate questions about their political beliefs.”
What’s more, there’s good reason to think that the mistreatment of Tea Party and right-of-center groups has never stopped.
This should deeply concern us all, even those who aren’t Tea Party supporters. The IRS is not a political arm of the government that’s free to be used to suppress to dissenters. It is merely a tax collector.
Yet it has the power of accuser, judge, jury and executioner. It makes lives miserable, a practice some in the agency seem to enjoy — it’s their amusement. The IRS can be a bully, a thug, an intimidator. It rolls on without checks and balances. One lower court even said that there were no remedies available to make it pay for its misconduct.
Such an agency has no place in a nation founded on freedom. Americans were to never have masters. Liberty was our birthright — as it should be for every human. The IRS violates these principles and deserves to feel the heat and the jabs that only torch-and-pitchfork patriots can bring.
We’re not advocating a physical occupation, of course. But concerned citizens should put unprecedented political pressure on Washington to rid us of this meddlesome bureaucracy. Every year millions of Americans pay the IRS. Now it’s the IRS’ turn to pay.