Fellow Conservative,

For decades – really almost since its inception – the IRS, a bureaucracy with the power to crush lives and livelihoods, has been weaponized for political purposes. 

It’s one of many reasons I’ve led the charge to ABOLISH it altogether. 

In Chapter Two of Justice Corrupted, I detail the long history of U.S. presidents abusing the power of the executive branch to punish their real or perceived enemies with audits, harassment, and coordinated leaks of private financial information, from Franklin Roosevelt to John Kennedy to Richard Nixon.

Then, I do a deep dive on the rise of the Tea Party movement in the early 2010s and how the Obama administration targeted liberty-loving conservatives in an attempt to silence us. 

If you haven’t ordered and read Justice Corrupted yet, I’d urge you to do so today. 

In early 2014, I introduced amendments during a session of the Senate Judiciary Committee that would have made it illegal for the IRS to target individuals based on their politics. 
 
Both of these amendments were REJECTED unanimously by the Democratic colleagues. 

This issue should not be partisan. But it’s clear that it has become so. 
 
In Justice Corrupted, I make the case for why we need to abolish the IRS and move toward a simple flat tax for everyone: 

“Inside the Internal Revenue Service, you’ll find hundreds of thousands of rules and regulations that even the most advanced supercomputers in the world have trouble working through. If you’re an adult person in the United States, it’s entirely possible (likely even) that you’ve violated some obscure provision of this code without even knowing it. That is why the IRS does not seek to track down every small violation and punish those who commit those violations. Instead, it conducts routine and usually random audits of certain taxpayers, reviewing that person’s tax return to make sure that he or she hasn’t done anything wrong. 
 
“Officially, the IRS is supposed to decide whom it audits based on a complete and semi-random computer algorithm. There is a points system for violations, and if a taxpayer gets a certain number of “points,” that person gets audited. If the IRS goes after a person for anything other than those reasons, it is in violation of the law. 
 
“Of course, there are so many potential violations – more than 70,000 pages of them – that it often isn’t hard for an IRS employee to get an investigation going. 
 
“So, if another president – say Joe Biden, who has already advocated for a new law that would empower the IRS to track every single banking transaction over $600 – wanted to sic the IRS on his political opponents, he wouldn’t need much justification to do so. The tax code is so complicated that it can be weaponized against virtually anyone at any time.” 

You can read more on the weaponization of the IRS and the details of the flat tax plan I proposed during my 2016 presidential campaign in Justice Corrupted. 

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For Liberty, 

Ted Cruz