If you have friends who work for the IRS: Get new friends

Richard Rahn asks:  But is the IRS a MORAL institution?  To ask the question is to answer it.  As I've oft said before:  If a private company executive did these things they would be in jail.  Money grafs:

Would you consider taking a job with a government agency that: c Unnecessarily strikes fear into the hearts of tens of millions of your fellow citizens, causing such anguish and despair that some are driven to suicide each year.

c Requires citizens to know 10 million words of rules and regulations because the failure to do so may result in draconian fines and even jail, while at the same time no one in the agency has a full understanding of all the rules and regulations it requires others to know.

c Routinely ignores the constitutional protections against self-incrimination and the right to the presumption of innocence.

c Seizes the assets of citizens without obtaining court judgments.

c Penalizes marriage.

c Discriminates against many of the nation's most productive citizens.

c Destroys incentives to work, save and invest, and undermines job creation.

c Routinely protects agency personnel who have engaged in citizen intimidation, misrepresentation or worse?