It’s long past time to legalize it.

Can it be fixed, or should it just be abolished?

I think that the culture is so toxic, we probably need a clean slate there. As I noted when the “phony” scandal first broke:

The Founders, in their wisdom, understood that the key to good government lay not in hoping that the governors would be angels, but to restrict its power, knowing that they would never be. We can fire employees, we can even jail them, but the problem won’t be solved until the power of the “service” is reined in vastly. Step one might be to re-ban government employee unions, including that of the IRS, because that’s part of the system we can fix, and this deserves that death penalty.

Ideally, of course, the income tax would be abolished entirely, but perhaps a simpler and (perhaps) more politically feasible solution would be to at least eliminate the corporate income tax, so that no one would have to justify their tax status to the bureaucrats. It’s not possible to prevent people, particularly people whose goal is power, from abusing it. All we can do is deprive them of it. Newtown didn’t justify any of the legislative attempts to disarm us that followed it, and even some who jumped on that bandwagon are now recognizing that we need control of government more than control of guns. But if this travesty of tyranny doesn’t lead to serious tax reform, and government reform, we will have missed a true opportunity.

And it looks worse now than it did then.

Lois Lerner called conservatives “a**holes” and “crazy” in one of the emails we’ve been able to find.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Lois Lerner calling Conservatives whackos for being skeptical of the govt is like Ted Kennedy calling Mary Jo Kopechne a bad swimmer.

— Matthew (@Matthops82) July 30, 2014

[Update a while later]

This provides useful context for her earlier email describing the Tea Party organizations as “dangerous.” A lot of people are asking, appropriately, if this is what’s in the emails that have been uncovered, just how bad are the “lost” ones?