The IRS is a private organization not actually part of the U.S. Government... It's a corporation just like any other designed to make money, to bad most of the money made is actually going back to U.S. taxpayers. (Here lies the problem with America as a whole) America is a business.

The problem as I see it is everyone is caught up with the almighty dollar, shouldn't it really be about the advancement of Humans as a species?
When Money gets in the way of groundbreaking research because it's to costly then there really is an issue.