Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 19, 2010

The incurable anger and despair that prompted Joseph Stack to fly his private plane into an IRS office building in Austin, Texas grew from a small but critical change in the tax code enacted in 1986. That revision effectively ruined Stack?s career plans.

It takes an utterly predatory and amoral agency to enforce the vast and largely inscrutable income tax code.

In his memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector, former IRS official Richard Yancey recalls an early training session in which his supervisor declared: ?This is war.? On another occasion, Yancey witnessed a supervisor indulging in a profane harangue about taxpayers that ended with the observation: ?[I]f it were up to me, I?d line ?em all up against a wall and shoot them.?

Former IRS officials have admitted under oath that their agency routinely targets innocent taxpayers.

What Stack did was wrong, but his crimes hardly eclipse the criminal violence carried out every day by the IRS.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.