Should we "abolish the IRS"?
Doyle McManus of the LA Times says no (my emphasis):
Believe it or not, the IRS is becoming something of a model of
efficiency among Washington's bureaucracies. It collects more taxes
every year than ever before, at lower cost per dollar collected than
anytime since 1980. It does fewer face-to-face audits, too; most of its
enforcement is done by checking electronic data and sending out letters.
By the end of this year, its payroll will be about 14% smaller than
five years ago, shortened by about 13,000 people. Its technologists have
proposed new enforcement projects that would collect $8 to $13 for
every dollar spent.
“That's a return on investment that private businesses would kill for,”
notes John Hudak, who studies the management of federal bureaucracies
for the Brookings Institution.
So how would Cruz suggest we collect the revenue necessary to run the federal government?
Aides say Cruz would replace the agency with a tax collection division
in the Treasury Department. (Treasury already has a tax collection
division. It's called the IRS.)
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