Jack Crivici-Kramer

It's ironic because at the same time we're giving out refunds paid for by debt, we're defunding the one agency that could reduce our debt.

So, besties, let's jump in T-boy style.

Without your green visor hats, turn on the lamp and go full CPA on these IRS numbers.

The IRS collected $5.2 trillion in revenue last year from Americans and American businesses with a budget of $12 billion.

I'm sorry, Jack, pause the pod.

A $12 billion agency just collected $5 trillion?

That's a big difference.

Name another agency in the federal budget that does that.

Department of the Interior, so jealous right now.

Without the IRS, our soldiers don't get paid, our TSA doesn't function, and Social Security checks don't go out.

Actually, the IRS, our Internal Revenue Service, our tax collectors have this really cool quote about what they do, actually.

It's chiseled into their headquarters building in D.C.,

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

But besties, despite those epic numbers, the IRS is uniformly unpopular in America.

From Texas to Tribeca, people hate paying taxes.

Sometimes you wonder if they hate the IRS or if they hate the process of paying taxes to the IRS.

But either way, not that popular.

Which is why gutting the IRS is good politics.

even when the math makes no sense.

And that, yetis, it leads to a new American mantra about taxes, according to the Wall Street Journal.