"ktbr" wrote in message
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That's just not a fact. The IRS "bureaucracy" costs roughly $10
billion divided by $2 trillion collected. That only .5% in collection
costs, the most efficient in the world. The FAA originally proposed
an unspecified user fee for just landing/departing Class B. That
could be collected by the Airport Authorities at 30 big airports and
turned over periodically to FAA.

I don't buy those numbers. There are so many hidden costs invloved...
What about the libilites for benefits for all the IRS employees...
the computer equipment, office space, electric bills, printing
costs... storage facilites and processing tax returns.

You also never mentioned the hidden costs (costs employees pay but
don't realize they do). The personnel overhead and the countless
thousands of UNPRODUCTIVE time spent on simply *complying* with IRS
filing and paperwork. There is a 'cost' associated with every single
employee that ultimately comes out of the employees potential income.

About ten years ago, Hewlett-Packard sent their annual tax forms and data to
the IRS in four semi-tractor trailer rigs.

The IRS and its miriad of confusing rules and printed publications
cannot be justified.

True, but not the point.