Not being able to recover revenue from wealthy people who can afford to bend or break the tax code is a problem. The IRS can effectively make money for the fede

Not being able to recover revenue from wealthy people who can afford to bend or break the tax code is a problem. The IRS can effectively make money for the federal government simply by auditing the rich (I seem to remember that the marginal dollar spent on enforcement returned six dollars in revenue), but they don't because politics.