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So...you changed the definition of a word to imply the IRS was a criminal enterprise engaged in crime to maintain an admitting shitty status quo when in fact no one involved commitee any crime at all. Not just at an organizational level, but literally anyone, anywhere in the IRS.
Got it.
No. The word was used correctly. Below is a definition of the word "bribe".
bribe /brīb/ noun
1 Money or some other benefit given to a person in power, especially a public official, in an effort to cause the person to take a particular action.
2 Something offered to induce another to do something. "tried to use dessert as a bribe to get the child to cooperate."
intransitive verb
1 To give, offer, or promise a bribe to.
2 To give, offer, or promise bribes.
3 To commit robbery or theft.
4 To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise.