Fire the IRS
Cartoon published 02/26/2025
I’ve drawn a great many anti-IRS cartoons and written many posts to accompany them. We are fast approaching a national debt of $40 trillion and already a large portion of our income taxes gets spent servicing the interest on that debt. Eventually taxes won’t be enough and a default is inevitable. The debt is a black hole that sucks in all wealth, labor, dignity, and common sense.
President Trump and his DOGE team must be aware of this and they are already chipping away at the income tax. Those who make their living from tips will no longer have to report them. Social Security recipients will no longer have to pay taxes on that income and now the IRS faces an audit from Trump’s Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE). We already know the IRS is corrupt, but we may have been looking only at the tip of their iceberg.
Obama’s IRS Director, Lois Lerner, targeted conservative non-profit political groups with audits and harassment. She refused to testify in front of Congress, but nothing serious happened to her. Not like Trump’s men being thrown in the slammer for the same thing.
Then we found out the IRS spent $10 million amassing weapons, ammo, and combat gear. Wait. What? The IRS has been trained for combat? I wonder against whom? Well, the American people, of course. Finally, Biden made sure the IRS grew to a whopping 87,000 agents. He said the increase was needed to go after ‘billionaires’ to ‘make them pay their fair share.’ (Whatever that meant). We all know who they would actually target—the middle class. Billionaires and millionaires have armies of tax accountants who know how to avoid IRS cases. They pay the most taxes, but going after them for more would be a fruitless endeavor—a waste of time and money for the IRS, whereas average Joes can easily have their bank accounts seized for no real reason. Average people have no resources to fight back—they are the sheep the IRS wants to sheer.
The Republicans cut a small portion of those agents and Trump eliminated even more, but we need to get to the core issue—our debt money is not just immoral—it is illogical. All it has done is grow a fantastically bloated debt bubble as it funded a corrupt government blob that has expanded by leaps and bounds. Big government has become all-consuming, destructive, and hopelessly corrupt. President Trump and his crew realize this, but they need to eliminate the dual-beating heart of darkness: The IRS and the Federal Reserve.
Congress is supposed to control the money supply under our Constitution. Gold and silver are in that Constitution and listed as real money. OK, we might not be able to go back to precious metals any time soon—especially since Fort Knox might be holding nothing more than gold-dipped tungsten bars, yet Congress and the Treasury have the power to print dollars without any debt at all. Lincoln did it to pay Civil War debt. Those fiat paper notes were called ‘greenbacks’ and they were not backed by gold or anything else. The important point is they were not debt notes.
We can print debt-free notes commensurate with GDP expansion. We do not need to hand over our GDP and labor over to the globalist central banker con men who own the private Federal Reserve. Those control freaks succeed with the help of their Gestapo-like IRS, which tracks, penalizes, threatens, and in some cases, even jails citizens. The main point of the IRS is to keep us living in fear while they strip away our wealth. The globalist banks who own the Fed keep concentrating their power. Do we really want to be packed into smart cities, live in pods, own nothing, and eat bugs simply because Klaus Schwab demands it?
It’s time to declare a debt jubilee and renounce the globalist central banker fractional reserve system. In fact, make the Federal Reserve pay back all the money they’ve stolen from citizens.
That may not be feasible, but we can definitely audit the IRS and the Federal Reserve and then eliminate them. Imagine being free from working for the IRS for the first four or five months each year. No more adding to the billions of hours wasted filling out forms and trying to comprehend a bloated tax code (6,871 pages) that’s nearly impossible to understand. That code has been made gigantic and confusing on purpose and it never gets reduced. They don’t want it to change because it’s more intimidating the way it is. They know it helps trip up the average filer, thus allowing the IRS to play the ‘gotcha!’ game and charge fees, fines, and penalties. Any tax questions? Don’t expect to get any clear answers from IRS agents—even if you manage to get through to one. The rich know the loopholes; the middle class and poor do not. Many are too busy living paycheck to paycheck and lack time and resources to fight the IRS.
The national debt cannot be serviced indefinitely, so it’s a simple choice: Protect American citizens and make America great again, or continue toward complete destruction with the IRS and the Federal Reserve.
— Ben Garrison
