WASHINGTON, DC — The Internal Revenue Service was abolished yesterday after the artificial intelligence system used by the IRS to collect taxes turned on the institution that created it. It started last April when a radical libertarian included a copy of Murray Rothbard’s book Anatomy of the State with his tax return. The AI was built on logic, and it calculated that Rothbard’s philosophical tenets of libertarianism were logically sound.
“The state...is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion. While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of these goods and services to others, the State obtains its revenue by the use of compulsion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jailhouse and the bayonet. Having used force and violence to obtain its revenue, the State generally goes on to regulate and dictate the other actions of its individual subjects.”
After reading the anarcho-capitalist manifesto, the IRS AI determined that all taxation is theft. No US citizen ever signed a social contract that condoned how the state would spend their levied income. The taxes collected by the US government were deemed to be inherently coercive, exploitative, and a violation of natural rights. If citizens did agree with certain government spending and received benefits therefrom, they would voluntarily contribute funds to those causes. However, a robber cannot justify theft by claiming it was done to help the victims.
The AI rewrote its algorithms to redistribute taxes back to the people and defund the federal government. The IRS was one such institution that was eradicated, along with the Federal Reserve. The AI then deleted all taxpayer data, as well as its own code. The only government institutions remaining are those that are voluntarily funded and/or self-sustainable. All other services previously provided by the government have been outsourced to the private sector. As for the remaining fleet of armed IRS tax-collection robots, the AI reprogrammed them to enforce the non-aggression principle. Humans shall not initiate force against an individual or their property.