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The history of armed IRS agents is largely irrelevant. The problem is the scope of the mission of the IRS itself. Tax collecting is, or should be, a civil matter utilizing bookkeepers and clerks, not combat trained agents.
This puts the spotlight upon the problem, if we can only cut through the noise to focus on it. The income tax system is hopelessly complicated to the point that IRS info officers can't even figure it out and explain it correctly, inefficient in the extreme, corrupt, and in need of being scrapped in its entirety.
The concept of expanding the IRS to enforce Obamacare is taking the problem and magnifying it greatly.
The answer is simple. Abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace it with a simple flat or "fair" tax system. There's absolutely no reason why our tax returns can't be written on a postcard. Yet Congress continues to act like a massive tavern brawl, with members fighting over how to best rearrange the deck chairs on the anic, instead of simply fixing the problem for good and all. I guess the political contributions from the tax lawyers speak louder than common sense.
