By Mike Bibb

Finally, it looks like the folks at the Internal Revenue Service will be shown a little justice of their own.

With April 15 quickly approaching, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced the appointment of two former IRS agents to investigate and recommend changes to the Service.

These two agents were also involved in revealing the cover-up, discrepancies and favoritism shown Hunter Biden in his tax scandal.

With the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exposing other department's waste, fraud and abuse, it can now add the IRS' well recognized intimidation, fear tactics and sometimes prosecution of individuals it has targeted.

All in the name of enforcing "Voluntary Compliance" by making sure businesses and citizens "Pay their fair share." Or whatever IRS considers a fair share, on any given day, at any given time.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley (R) urged the hiring of former IRS agents Gary Shipley and Joseph Ziegler. The senator commented "Gary Shipley and Joe Ziegler put their entire careers on the line to stand up for the truth, and instead of being thanked, the Biden administration treated them like skunks at a picnic."

Continuing, Grassley said: "Far too many whistleblowers share a similar experience of retaliation. I hope today is the first of many redemption stories for whistleblowers who've been mistreated. By taking a stand for whistleblowers, President Trump and his cabinet are ushering in a new era of transparency and accountability." — Newsmax, Mar. 18, 2025.

Readers may recall in July 2023, the two agents testified President Biden's Justice Department interfered into Hunter Biden's IRS criminal investigation. The charges were "slow-walked" and eventually cancelled by expiration of the statute of limitations.

In October of 2024, the same two agents reported the DOJ, FBI and IRS all knew the information contained within Hunter's abandoned laptop computer was authentic but failed to prosecute him fearing adverse publicity for Joe's 2020 presidential campaign.

Instead, the phony excuse that it contained Russian information implicating Donald Trump was released to the media. Not checking facts, the mainstream press jumped on the bogus charges and continually accused Trump of the fake accusations.

Later, of course, the scam was exposed, but by that time Joe had been elected to the White House.

Just before leaving the Presidency in January 2025, Joe pardoned Hunter, and other members of his family of any criminal activity which may have occurred in the past as well as the future.

Currently, there is doubt these Executive Orders are authentic, since they appeared to have been signed by an Autopen, and not by Joe's actual hand. In other words, it hasn't been established Joe was present at the time of signing the EOs or was somewhere else.

Also, the validity of Joe being lawfully allowed to pardon someone who hasn't yet been indicted, tried and convicted of a crime remains a question for the Supreme Court.

Whoever heard of pardoning a person before a crime was committed? Only in Joe's head, I guess.

These screwups, and a lot more, were all going on during Joe's term in office. Practically every department of government was over-staffed, over budgeted and overspent their annual allocations.

Sometimes by billions of dollars.

Case in point: Joe Biden wanted to hire about 80,000 additional IRS workers. On a per state basis, that would work out to about 1,200 more federal revenue employees. Of course, more populous states would have more tax collectors than less populous states.

Trump's Administration thought this wasn't a good idea. With a debt now approaching $37 trillion, hiring more tax collectors to go after more of the people's money seemed counter intuitive.

Collecting taxes isn't the problem — excessive government waste, spending and borrowing is.

Not difficult to figure out.

What is easy to understand is that we're reminded it takes three or four months — 1/4th - 1/3rd of a year — for the people to work just to pay their income taxes.

Something is obviously broken with the system and not getting any better.

Also, a few of DOGE workers may have come to the realization that not all taxes collected "from whatever the source" are actually legitimate income taxes.

That, in fact, there is a distinct difference between what a corporation earns in yearly revenues, and what an ordinary wage earner is paid. The two obtained their money in entirely dissimilar ways.

A small business, company or corporation makes money by selling a product or service and hiring people to produce the product or service. In some cases, a few workers and in other instances hundreds or thousands of workers.

An individual wage earner only offers his time and efforts. He has no product or service to sell. As a result, he/she is paid what the employer is willing or required (minimum wage) to pay.

Unlike a business, a wage earner usually has no financial investment, gain or income received from the company. He/she simply receives a weekly check (remuneration) for their time and labor. There is no additional profit added.

This is the way the 16th Amendment was originally established in 1913. It was designed by Congress to be a tax on incomes earned by businesses and corporations. It wasn't intended to apply to individuals as that was already forbidden by the Constitution — Article 1, Sections 8 & 9.

The 16th Amendment has never been amended to include individual wages, and Art. 1, Sec. 8 and 9 have never been repealed. These two sections of the U.S. Constitution are just as valid now as when they were ratified.

Only today, the IRS, in cahoots with federal district courts, has perverted the original meaning and intent of the 16th Amendment to currently imply all monies "from whatever the source" is to be considered "income." Including an individual's wages.

A gross distortion of the16th Amendment's fundamental purpose, and a noticeable overreach by unelected activist bureaucrats and judges.

Anyone with three brain cells connected can easily distinguish the difference between corporations, receiving millions and billions of dollars yearly, and a single wage earner pulling in less than $35,000 annually.

Corporations have the advantage of passing on their tax obligations to the consumer by including these costs within the price of their product.

A wage earner does not have this option. His only allowable deductions are what the IRS says he can have. He can't hand off this burden to anyone else.

Not a very "fair" system by any means.

To lump the two into the same taxing procedure is a blatant injustice of our laws and Constitutional prohibitions against such foolishness.

It is with great anticipation that President Trump's intended reform of the Internal Revenue Service, and DOGE's in-depth examination of this reckless agency of government will finally realign the IRS back to its original mission: Collecting income taxes from businesses and other organizations that actually earned an income.

If that means firing the top echelon of IRS management and laying off over half its staff, then so be it.

Good riddance, adios and sayonara. Go get a real job and quit pestering the folks who are only trying to make a living!