The thing is that people generally feel that taking someone else's money from their pocket at gunpoint is a bad thing. But when a third party, the IRS, does th

The thing is that people generally feel that taking someone else's money from their pocket at gunpoint is a bad thing. But when a third party, the IRS, does this at their behest then people think it is a good thing. No one would pay taxes if the IRS did not have weapons. It is a strange agency for a pacifist to embrace. I think people really don't give much thought to what the IRS actually is and what it does.