Do you have enough money to provide for the basic needs of yourself and your family? You may be thinking, "I can always use more," but the core question is:

Do you need more?

As you think about it, consider another equally important question: Who deserves the bulk of your income, you or the government?

Last week, I discussed the joy across the land if, on Christmas morning, the announcement was made that “there would no longer be a federal income tax.”

Of course, you knew when you read it, that the Christmas story was indeed a fantasy.

Yet if you agree with me that the IRS is simply too large and too expensive, and are intrigued with the idea of shrinking or eliminating the IRS altogether, read on. What follows is an outline planning how to streamline the IRS in two months or less.

In the first 30 days, staff cuts must be carried out via one-time incentive offers into regular retirement; buyout offers into early retirement; or, one-time payouts to voluntarily resign – in that order – based on descending seniority. Each individual accepting these opportunities must agree to terms that they are not eligible for rehire at any level of government or quasi-public authority. They must seek only private-sector employment.

In the second 30 days, involuntary redeployments to other prioritized federal departments – such as the U.S. Border Patrol – should be implemented based on ascending seniority.

Within two months, process simplification can be accelerated, Work flows can be streamlined and forms can be modernized to cut operating costs. Make no mistake, form simplification is essential because, at present, the IRS tax code is purposely too complex. As a powerful fiscal policy tool, government insiders use the IRS tax code to try to control taxpayers' behavior and stimulate the economy the way they choose.

Progressives tell us this is needed to effect social change for the better.

The IRS code does effect social change – according to the progressive plan – but not necessarily for the better. More importantly, progressives and government bureaucrats take away the people’s freedom to make individual decisions. Again, that’s why the tax code is so complicated. It is also why there are so many loopholes that benefit mostly those same insiders.

Previously, I noted that the IRS – at 115,000 employees and growing – has more employees than Microsoft and Intel combined. Want another comparison?

The IRS also has more employees than the CIA and FBI combined.

Given their respective missions - the CIA is supposed to protect citizens from nefarious external threats and the FBI is supposed to protect citizens from internal criminals – many may wonder who protects America’s citizens from the IRS?

Frederick Douglass was prescient when he said “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” Douglass may be telling us that the IRS is the institutional enforcer of a federal tax code that encroaches on individual liberty.

Richard Olivastro is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and founder of Citizens For Change. He can be reached via e-mail at RichOlivastro@gmail.com or by phone at 1-877-RichSpeaks.