The Internal Revenue Service is today an intimidating force in society. The IRS creates in the citizenry a certain deference toward government that is unhealthy for both our freedom and our prosperity. A free society shouldn't tolerate such an agency, particularly when the government doesn't need it to raise revenue. Crane's article in The Washington Times, April 17, 1994. Taxes aren't the only fetters the government throws on the economy.
Deficit spending is harmful also.
By the time president Bush left office, that ratio had fallen to a mere 30 cents in economic growth per dollar of deficit spending. As long as our federal government continues writing down the nation's balance sheet, the country can expect a continued and painful decrease in our living standards. One of the more outrageous ways the government spends your money has turned up in the federal disability entitlements program. A just-published General Accounting Office study has found that 172,000 substance abusers on disability weren't subject to treatment or payment safeguards. Wall Street Journal editorial, Feb. 8, 1994.