Back in 2013, Republican congressman Jeff Duncan
toured a Department of Homeland Security training facility in Maryland and
observed eight or nine IRS agents engaged in target practice with
semi-automatic Colt rifles. It later occurred to him to ask, “Why do IRS law enforcement agents need
standoff capability that you would have with a long rifle or with a weapon
similar to an AR-15?”
Good question, but it goes to the basic nature
of taxation.
Taxation is not “giving”.