They never meant for you to understand the tax code. That’s not a flaw. That’s the feature. It’s a system designed to keep ordinary people tangled in forms, deadlines, and fear, while the powerful move quietly through loopholes, shelters, and carveouts you’ll never see. The Internal Revenue Service stands like a monument to this engineered confusion. Every April, Americans are forced to submit proof of their financial obedience, and if they make a mistake, they pay for it in penalties or prison.
Consider this. The code is over 70,000 pages. That’s longer than the Bible, the Constitution, and every founding document of this country combined, multiplied many times over. No average citizen can read or understand it. Most tax professionals haven’t even read it all. And yet it governs every dollar you earn, every hour you work, and every breath you take in this so-called free economy.
Roughly 167 million people file taxes annually. Nearly 90 percent need professional help to do it. That’s not normal. That’s not freedom. That’s an institutional chokehold. And while you sweat over your W-2, billionaires restructure their wealth into trusts, foundations, and offshore entities. You get audited. They get away clean.
In 2024, the government collected 4.9 trillion dollars. It still ran a deficit of 1.7 trillion. Let that settle. We are being taxed into submission, and they still can’t make the numbers work. So they print. They borrow. They inflate. And every time they do, your savings erode and your bills swell. This is not fiscal responsibility. It is national erosion, funded by your compliance.
So what’s the solution? Not tinkering. Not shaving a few points off brackets. The answer is full replacement. Tear it out. Replace it with a national consumption tax. No more income reporting. No more spying. No more criminalizing productivity. You keep what you earn. You pay when you spend. Period.
Over 170 countries already run on some variation of this system. It’s efficient. It’s simple. It’s fair. And unlike income tax, it can’t be gamed by the rich. You buy a yacht, you pay. You renovate a mansion, you pay. You fly private coast to coast, you pay. It targets excess, not survival.
The poor can be protected. Food, rent, medicine can be exempt. You tailor the structure to ease the burden where it hurts most. What you gain in return is nothing short of revolutionary. No IRS. No audits. No fear. That’s thirteen billion dollars a year currently spent funding an agency that exists to monitor, intimidate, and penalize workers. Shut it down. Reclaim that money. Rebuild something that serves, not controls.
The current system is unsustainable. It’s bloated. It’s broken. It’s weaponized. And worst of all, it has convinced people that it’s the only way. But it’s not. There is another path. And it begins by recognizing this simple truth.
You don’t reform a machine built for control. You dismantle it.