What a concept. Flat-rate income taxes with a “form” on a post card. Ted Cruz’s delightful idea. Probably doomed to failure because of all the partisan Democrat bureaucrats who would lose their jobs.
Not to mention loss of the graft so many pols of both parties get backing tax favors for various lobbies. And, as we have been reminded of late, the agency’s usefulness as a Democrat weapon against political opponents, such as the Tea Party and pro-Israel charities that don’t toe Obama’s line. But what an idea, Ted, and after only five months in the Senate!
UPDATE: The IRS is full of scoundrels whose usefulness to the people is nil.
MORE: Here’s what the IRS is really about, helping the rest of us subsidize Obama’s brother in terrorist-state Sudan. Meanwhile, it’s being expanded to handle Obamacare. Watch how you vote if you want that operation in time to survive.
AND… Ted has a Web site now to promote abolition. Good luck, senator.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I suspect that both Dems and Reps will fight to death against this idea.
Probably. But I’m beginning to think they’re not the only ones who are going to be fighting to the death before long. We little folk have long feared the IRS but this is the first time, that I recall, we’ve had our noses rubbed in the fact that it’s a thoroughly partisan Democrat agency.
You could think of Cruz’s assertions as an opening salvo in a game of Battleship, trying to find the range before unloading on the target. And a bit disjointed at that. A flat tax wouldn’t have any deductions and he lists home mortgages and charitable contributions, etc.