The Lie of “IRS Inefficiency” You’ve heard the narrative: the IRS is incompetent, outdated, overwhelmed. Long wait times, lost paperwork, inconsistent answers—it’s framed as bureaucratic failure. That’s a convenient story. It shifts blame away from the real architect of the chaos: Congress. The truth is simpler—and more uncomfortable. The IRS isn’t failing despite the system. It’s struggling because of it. The tax code has been engineered into a sprawling, contradictory framework that no single agency could administer cleanly, no matter how well-funded or staffed. When errors are inevitable, enforcement becomes selective. And when enforcement is selective, power concentrates. Complexity Isn’t an Accident—It’s Leverage Take a step back and look at what decades of legislation have produced: Overlapping rules that contradict…
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