IRS

Infernal Revenue Service, etc. A satanic cabal of bureaucrats that believes in plundering the wealth of taxpayers to fund projects like the ghetto school program, Iraq reconstruction and other forms of income redistribution from the middle class to the government. One of the last remaining remnants of socialism in an otherwise free-market economy. Was christened (originally the "Bureau of Revenue") in 1913 along with the Federal Reserve. See 16th Amendment of the US Constitution. Ratified by 38 states and signed into law by Republican William Howard Taft, who came in third place in the 1912 elections (behind Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Bull Moose candidate Teddy Roosevelt). Quite possibly deepened the Great Depression of the 1930s, which was much worse than the economic depressions of the 19th Century. Federal income tax had been ruled unconstitutional two times earlier by the Supreme Court in the late 1800s. First set at less than 5% under the administration of Abraham Lincoln in 1862, and was voluntarily abandoned by the feds after the Civil War (imagine that today).