[catuscoti]

Ultimately, all of this assumes that the IRS are willing to prove that they will risk their lives and die for what they believe in. They will not, because they expect the police force to do that, who in turn will not, because they expect the army to do that. And that is how it all went wrong so often in the past.

[ubernostrum]

Why would the IRS need to risk their lives to conduct a legal investigation? If you're caught on a CCTV camera somewhere, they're going to be able to find out about it without getting killed.

And if somebody plans to kill IRS agents, well, that is going to bring out the heavy forces, and will not end well for the tax evader.

[Senji]

>all of this assumes that the IRS are willing to prove that they will risk their lives and die for what they believe in.

Please, they'll just use another branch of the government to disappear some people. It's not like they have any scruples doing that already.