“We’re just trying to make sure the rich pay their fair share.” So runs the Dem line on the expansion of the IRS. People and businesses that comply with the tax code have nothing to worry about.
Writing at Power Line, John Hinderaker has other thoughts.
Here’s his key paragraph:
I think the liberals who run the IRS would sic their agents on every conservative nonprofit in the country. They would audit such organizations, looking for evidence that they somehow had violated the extremely vague regulations governing political activity. Such audits would require even squeaky-clean organizations like my own to hire lawyers to defend them. Government lawyers work for free–that is, courtesy of the taxpayers–while private lawyers have to be paid. Thus, a concerted attack by the IRS could largely disable conservative nonprofits, whose revenue would be dissipated by paying for lawyers, and whose energies would be dissipated in dealing with IRS attacks.
The “progressives” intend to weaponize every aspect of the government to cement their power in place permanently. I think Hinderaker is right in saying that the “fair share” baloney is cover for the further politicization of the IRS.