This sounds terrible.
It is clearly time to replace the income tax with a simple direct tax that gets rid of all this complexity, expense, and opportunity for any misguided politicians to abuse (abuse us, that is).
I say this as someone who has nothing but respect for the courteous help at the IRS. Everyone there should be offered an equivalent or better job to be sure! But, as a country we definitely need to change to a far less burdensome (and far less susceptible to abuse by those we elect) system.
Bottom line is the “Federal Government” is suffering massive PR damage because of this IRS persecution of American citizens.
I don’t care what any polls say. This unfolding episode finally puts the lie to Democrats and GOP “acting in your best interest.”
The corruption in government won’t stop until the powers-that-be have trouble seizing tax dollars and property from citizens.
At that point, they either throw the racketeers out, or we become Greece.
So far, looks like we’re headed for Greece.