Reason.tv: 47 Ways to Say "IRS" … What do those initials really stand for?

The "Internal Revenue Service" is such a bland name for an agency that stirs so much passion.  

With Tax Day just around the corner, the time is right to consider what the initials "IRS" really stand for.

WARNING: Immature Subject Matter. Viewer discretion is advised.

Approximately 1.40 minutes

Produced by Ted Balaker. Written by Balaker, Meredith Bragg, Tim Cavanaugh, Paul Feine, Nick Gillespie, Hawk Jensen, Damon Root, Peter Suderman, Josh Swain, Zach Weissmueller, and Matt Welch

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Comments

[Tim]

Infernal
Red
Succubus

[fresno dan]

When I got out of the Air Farce, my first job, in Fresno, was at the Fresno IRS service center (service center - talk about Orwellian).
Anyway, I was a clerk in the criminal investigations division, and our mail was regularly addressed to "Infernal Revenue Service"
Funny how the post office knew the senders meant us.

[Dave]

Funny how my "t" sometimes looks a little like an "f"...

[Fist of Etiquette]

If
Rattlesnakes
Struck!

[kilroy]

Irritant
Rapidly
Spreading

[guy in the back row]

I
Really
Suck!

[Almanian]

I'm
Really
Screwed

[Almanian]

Irascible
Revenue
Sponges

[Almanian]

My, that has a nice symmetry to it

[Lint]

Irritable
Bowel
Syndrome

I just wish it on them.

[H man]

I
'Re
Shyster

[Invisible Finger]

Imperial
Ransacking of
Serfs

[prolefeed]

Initiating

Revolution of the

Serfs

[sasob]

Infernal Ripoff Service

[Brandybuck]

It
Rapes
Squirrels

[ConfederalRepublicBy2030]

I
Slurp
Semen.

[ConfederalRepublicBy2030]

Okay, okay, I know that's two Ss. Umm...

Indefensible
Racketeering
Scam

[Mensan]

Nice

[some guy]

Insufferable Ripoff Supporters

[some guy]

Ingominious Rascally Scalawags

[some guy]

When I try to post a second response, I keep getting spam-filtered. Maybe these two sentences will fool them...

Ignominious Rascally Scalawags

[some guy]

Ignominious Rascally Scalawags

[Bucky]

Intestinal Recumbent Scum

[MommyMagpie]

Insidious
Removal of
Salaries

[Old Mexican]

Insatiable
Ravenous
Statism

[Old Mexican]

Insatiable
Ravenous
Statism

[Old Mexican]

.Insatiable
Ravenous
Statism

[Old Mexican]

Insatiable Ravenous Statism

[By the way, your lousy filter does not allow me to place the words in a column.]

[Jeroboam]

The lousy spam filter won't even let me put my suggestion on one line unless I add some other text.

Intensive Recession Stimulator

[Old Mexican]

I Rather Shag

[Old Mexican]

Imbeciles Ravaging Society

[Old Mexican]

Imbeciles Ravaging
Society

[Old Mexican]

Imbeciles_Ravaging
Society

[Staubach12]

Intensive
Recession
Stimulator

[Obadiah]

Intensive
Recession
Stimulator

[Staubach12]

Intensive Recession Stimulator

[Mensan]

Infamous
Robbery
Syndicate

[Brian Sorgatz]

Infamy
Rivaling
Satan

[Troy Robinson]

I find making fun of the I.R.S in very poor taste. After all, these are no different than the Nazi Gestapo - just a bunch of hard working guys trying to do their jobs.

[Tim]

It's actually the last three letters of another word

THEIRS

[Erisian]

Inconsistent
Re-relegation of
Specie

[DenverJay]

In
Respect of
Slavery

[LittletonB]

Income
Removing
Syndicate

[???? ??????]

ThaNk U

[goallen]

ty rights, etc. seem like a more accurate measure of freedom than democracy.

[kangzhu]

This plan has no merit

[?????]

good man