[magellan]

This thing reads like a repackaging of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's pathetic whining.

Theft ALWAYS has a good return on investment, you dolt! "Generate" revenue? The Taxpayers "Generate" the revenue, you freakin' clueless moron.

Catherine Rampell went to Andover (the expensive boarding school G.W. Bush and Al Gore went to) and Princeton. She scored 1600 on the SAT.

She is a female Ezra Klein, attempting "explanatorey journalism". And she does not have the common sense God gave a goat.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“The IRS generates way more money than it spends,”

WOW. That’s just flat out amazing. Who would have ever though the IRS would bring in more money than it spends.

[Iron Munro]

The IRS generates way more money than it spends, after all. For every dollar appropriated to the IRS in the 2013 fiscal year, the agency collected $255

Right there it is !

Another 255 reasons to disband the IRS, neuter the believers, destroy the buildings, salt the earth upon which they stood and forbid the speaking or writing of the name throughout the galaxy for the next 10,000 centuries.

[Maurice Tift]

They took our money and proceeded to push the election toward those who would destroy the entire country... I’m not seeing the benefit yet. There are better ways of collecting taxes.

[Carriage Hill]

“For every dollar appropriated to the IRS in the 2013 fiscal year, the agency collected $255...”

I read that 3x and still don’t understand such convoluted thinking, except from a libtard.

[wny]

What a moron. The IRS doesn’t “generate money”. It confiscates it.

[TalBlack]

I’m stunned to learn that the IRS only collects at the ratio of 225 to 1. Wow.

[nathanbedford]

For every dollar the IRS is funded it diverts $225 away from productive investment and diminishes the economy to that extent.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

given the suspicious disappearance of a few thousand million key e-mails that Congress wants to see.

All fixed.

[MamaTexan]

For every dollar appropriated to the IRS in the 2013 fiscal year, the agency collected $255

Yeah, except both the appropriations and collections come from the same place-
US!

But I agree, we SHOULD stop 'starving the beast'......and just drive a stake through its heart.

[Harry Pothead]

“But they made the trains run on time!”

[IronJack]

This is the same Washington Post that could find nothing good to say about the Nixon administration. And now they're defending the IRSS????

Lickspittle journalism at its best ...

[Timber Rattler]

But right now, the IRS desperately needs a champion.

No it don't...it needs to be abolished.

[unlearner]

“The IRS generates way more money than it spends”

Criminal stupidity.

[Joe Boucher]

Until obammy is done trying to destroy American and is gone, nothing good will happen with the federal gubmint.
This butthead only knows one thing, marxism and we all know it just won’t work.

[magellan]

Leave the IRS alone!

[mrs. a]

“That’s a darn good return on investment.”

I work hard for my pay. Some of it I invest as I think would be of the best benefit to me. Some of it is taken from me without my consent and “invested” as I do not wish it to be.

I am able to make a distinction between the two.

[Unam Sanctam]

“The IRS generates way more money than it spends,”

Sorry, you didn’t build that. The taxpayers did.

[Mr. Jeeves]

For every dollar appropriated to the IRS in the 2013 fiscal year, the agency collected $255, according to the national taxpayer advocate’s office. That’s a darn good return on investment.

Bank robbers use the same tactics and offer a similar return on investment - but at least I don't have journalists telling me I need to give sanction and approval to their actions.

[griswold3]

Reading the comments, I learned a new word “Tealiban” (as in Taliban).
I am still so surprised at the number of folks who believe that the government is a force for good. It is a necessary evil that should be scaled at a level to control with oversight. Now we have created a monster that means to devour us all.

[MrB]

Two things need to change about the IRS -

First, the taxpayer must be innocent until proven guilty.

Second, it should be considered fraudulent and malpractice for the IRS to spend more in resources than a dispute is worth in order to collect on the disputed amount.

Of course, if the tax system were structured such that the IRS was not needed at all - so much the better.