And yes, they are enforcing laws. If they do not, then some other agency with similar or more expansive police powers will need to do the same thing.
But of course these good intentions last only five minutes. No, we don't have any money for Central government this year, the harvest was poor and besides we needed money for our new great hall. We'll get you next time. And like that old friend who always seems to have forgotten their wallet, the colonists never did seem to have the money they'd said they'd give voluntarily.
So the Constitution establishes a government which can take what it needs, because the wishful thinking doesn't work.
> Or some people try to politicize their tax dodging when they get caught.
I don't see why that has to be an "or." the statements are not mutually exclusive (i.e. they can both be simultaneously true)
and Historically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_allegations_of_misuse_...
For those here who are young and haven't had an exposure to this process outside of meme sites: an IRS audit is indeed a big pain in the ass. But as political oppression, it's pretty weak sauce. It's not like we're deploying novichok in the service of tax collection.
Through just relentless bad faith and a bottomless victim complex, the Republican House committees spent years insisting that Obama was targeting them, by literally restricting the IRS audit to only the right leaning lists and then presenting the IG results as comprehensive: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/154584-ig-audit-of-irs-ac...