THE day before Reps. Dick Armey (R., Tex.) and Billy Tauzin (R., La.) were due to debate each other on tax reform before the Bakersfield Business Conference, their host received a letter from a local IRS official declaring the forum inappropriate. The letter’s recipient commented succinctly, “It’s scary.”
A few weeks earlier, seven current and former IRS employees had provided dramatic evidence of their own informed fearfulness when they testified before William Roth’s Senate Finance Committee from behind screens with their voices distorted-like witnesses against the mob.
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