The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earns $4.00 for every $1 spent on enforcement in the agency, according to Vice President Mark Mazur from the Tax Policy Center. But the Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)? $10.20 and $12.34 for every $1 on enforcement, respectively.

And the best part is? Unlike the IRS, the CBP and ICE aren’t taking money from hard-working American taxpayers. Instead, they’re stopping the illegal immigrants that rip off the taxpayers, such as those stealing Social Security numbers to get benefits and tax refunds as well as those taking jobs from legitimate citizens, meaning that those citizens can’t work and, thus, be unable to pay taxes.

Yes, the CBP’s and ICE’s main goal aren’t to fund the government but they’re still doing a better job than the IRS at improving tax revenue. That’s how broken the tax agency is.

In fact, illegals who work are a double drain to taxpayers since not only do more citizens have to pay taxpayer-funded benefits, but also the illegals themselves don’t pay taxes. In other words, one legitimate citizen working means that he’s paying taxes, but one illegal working means that two people aren’t paying taxes, which is the illegal himself and the citizen who lost his job going on benefits. 

So who has to pick up the slack to fund one more benefit, while being one citizen down to fund everything else? Hard-working American taxpayers. And if that illegal is taking benefits via a stolen SS number while secretly working? Well, taxpayers are essentially two men down, while paying for two more benefits, on top of everything else.

Sure, radical leftists who favor high taxes can claim that citizens should pay taxes and illegals shouldn’t there’s “no taxation without representation”. But the tax regime, and America itself, won’t survive if illegals continue to rip off the nation, no matter how much the left raise taxes or the right lowers it. Only deporting illegals can fix it.

Additionally, there’s corruption and fraud. The main issue isn’t that illegals who voted illegally must now pay taxes, but rather the bigger problem is the IRS itself. 

First, the tax agency has rigged the tax-exempt status of right-wing non-profits, a violation of the First Amendment. Thus, they’re paying taxes they shouldn’t be paying. If a business takes money from people when it shouldn’t be, that’s called a scam and the Democrats would be outraged. But when the IRS does it? The victim gets a belated apology and a ‘oops, that’s an innocent mistake on how we identify non-profits.’

Second is the agency’s rather harsh treatment of American citizens. In most cases, a government agency that (quietly) seizes the house, car, and smaller possessions of a defenseless individual or business would be identified as a merciless thug who committed an assault on the citizen’s right to freedom and property. Not only is that tyrannical and immoral, it leaves the taxpayer stranded in tax debt since it’s difficult for him to work if he lost his car and business attire. If a pay-day company traps people in debt and sends debt collectors, the Democrats will go berserk, but if the IRS does it? ‘Hey guys, let’s raise taxes!’

Third, the IRS has been misleading taxpayers, claiming that it only audits 0.5% of tax returns in fiscal year 2017. But what exactly is an ‘audit’? The agency actually defines some types of ‘audits’ as ‘examinations’, thus stripping ‘examined’ taxpayers of rights that normally comes with an audit. For example, calculation errors and wage verification are ‘examinations’. Thus, the real audited figure is around 6.3%. Nina Olson, the head of the IRS Taxpayer Advocate at the IRS, revealed this deception when giving her annual report to Congress in 2018. If a business deceives people, Congressional Democrats will demand an investigation, but if the IRS deceives? ‘Let’s increase their budget since it’s auditing so little!’

Finally, immigration enforcement completely removes the “no taxation without representation” concerns that citizens are allegedly paying more taxes thanks to enough illegals voting for tax-raising Democrats to win close elections.

Our tax problems aren’t that Trump is hiding his personal tax returns or that some evil, giant corporation is paying too little taxes, it’s that illegals are stealing jobs and benefits while the tax regime itself is corrupt and fraudulent. The IRS can’t fix many of those problems, but the CBP and ICE can by simply doing they’re job: enforcing immigration laws.

So the solution is defund the IRS, and start enforcing immigration. Less taxes for legitimate citizens means that they’ll have more money to spend on “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” for legitimate citizens. It’s the smarter, more patriotic move.

I hope to experience some Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness with a larger after-tax income in a trip to Hawaii.