We also lost the good ones. The idea is that the three branches are separate and equal. As to the IRS, if we eliminated it, another agency would take its place. Sales tax, for instance, would create a whole new agency that would ride businesses. Congress would then sit around and debate how much tax should be on Twinkies versus brown rice, versus hamburgers.
Taxes are pretty nasty.
First, let's reduce spending and promote freedom and responsibility at the local level. The cost of litigation for liability burdens the freedom of all Americans, and stems from enabling legislation of regulatory agencies. Claremont supports limited government and government having those powers enumerated in the Constitution. Claremont has studies that mostly deal with what government should or shouldn't do. We use some cost-benefit analysis and economic data, but mostly we go back to government function in our stuff.