The mess at the IRS is worse than people realize, and a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Internal Revenue Service's Executive Long-Term Taxable Travel, reveals widespread flouting of rules, and underreporting of income by senior IRS officials. Such a pattern and practice on the part of those charged with supervising (and prosecuting failure of taxpayers to comply with) tax law is a major scandal.
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The Internal Revenue Service has become a partisan tool of the Democrats, a constitutional abomination that should be the basis of impeachment - and use of the IRS against his political enemies was an article in the proposed articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon drafted with the help of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The GOP has a ready-made issue to take to voters. The IRS is easily the most-hated institution of government power. Evidence that it doesn't obey the laws it enforces against others is an electoral gimme for the GOP.As Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit comments dryly: "Rules are for the little people." Leona Helmsley didn't earn much love with that approach, and sticking that view to the IRS will ahve the same potentcy.
It is time to draft and pass in the House IRS reform legislation and to lay the groundwork for abolishing the agency in a wide-ranging tax simplification a d reform agenda to hold out for the public following the 2016 elections, if they have the wisdom to hand Congress and the Oval Office to the GOP. [FULL].
