The IRS (along with the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve System) should have never been allowed to come into existence. They fundamentally transformed our nation from one where the privacy of citizens was respected by the government to where everything you do is the Federal Government's business, while you're not supposed to know what the Federal Government is doing behind closed doors. That's a 180 degree flip. After that, we ceased being the nation that was founded in 1789.