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Don’t Dems Want to Rein in the IRS?
By Ron Bonjean
July 30, 2013 

Washington has been consumed by the Internal Revenue Service scandal of targeting conservative groups and mismanaging taxpayer dollars. There's never been any love lost between Americans and the IRS, but the outrageous actions and the stonewalling by the agency reached new lows. 

Obama quickly condemned the actions taken by the IRS, but seemed to let go of the subject. Most Americans think that the White House supervises the IRS and so to continue to publicly seek a resolution to this problem would be political poisonous the president. Hoping that voters are losing their attention on the issue, President Obama has tried to change the subject by going a promotional tour of jobs and the economy without any new policy proposals. 

When it comes to taxpayers, beware to the politicians or organizations that mismanage their money. Does anyone remember the Pentagon's $600 toilet seats or the $400 hammers? How about the bad-check writing scandal committed by Members of Congress in the 1990s? The House banking scandal broke in early 1992, when it was revealed that the United States House of Representatives allowed members to overdraw their House checking accounts without risk of being penalized by the House bank. The corruption helped sew the seeds of discontent among voters who decided it was time for a change in the leadership of the legislative branch. 

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Consider the overreach by the Internal Revenue Service with its actions. We have absolutely no idea how out of control it will be get scrutinizing and penalizing individuals and small businesses when Obamacare is fully implemented... 

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