Misunderstanding The Internal Revenue Code Costs Americans About A Trillion Dollars Every Year FOOD FOR THOUGHT For the past one-hundred and four years of its existence, the U.S. Internal Revenue Code has been ridiculed, feared, and despised by virtually everyone. And why not? As presented by the Internal Revenue Service, the Code appears illogical, inconsistent, and incomprehensible. The Code defies practically the entire Bill of Rights- requiring citizens to testify against themselves, allowing searches and seizures without warrants, levying fines and penalties without trials, and imposing a tax on our basic right to earn a living. As presented by the IRS, the IRC would appear to turn everything we all thought we had learned in grade-school English and Civics on its head.