“The IRS budget has been cut for years. The NYT is just NOW reporting this? I wonder why...”
I think it’s mostly because they want a bigger budget,since they were put in charge of the obamacare taxes...
“The budget cutters are also trying to prevent the agency from performing its new job of collecting higher taxes on the rich to pay for health care reform, and distributing health insurance subsidies for low- and moderate-income people, many of whom will now be covered for the first time.”
Just think how many resources could be redirected to “enforcing” obamacare if they weren’t wasting time targeting conservative groups. The entire IRS payroll is a sunk cost, they just need to manage it better.