IRS Chief: 'Wherever we can, we follow the law.' | The American Spectator
on 9.15.14
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee — again — to answer for how his agency is handling enforcement of Obamacare. In the course of questioning, he made this statement, giving an interesting revelation of the agency’s mentality:
“Wherever we can”? Sometimes it’s simply impossible for a federal agency to follow the law? Yet the IRS is authorized to nail any citizen who violates tax law, knowingly or unknowingly, and frequently takes full advantage of that authority.
Maybe I’ll tell that to the IRS next time I file my taxes. “I followed the law whenever I could, but sometimes, I just couldn’t — please excuse me.”
Reminds me of the letter Donald Rumsfeld sent to the IRS along with his tax return this year. He wrote, “The tax code is so complex and the forms are so complicated, that…I have absolutely no idea whether our tax returns and our tax payments are accurate.”
John Hayward at Breitbart accurately diagnoses Koskinen’s statement as a symptom of a much larger issue:
The problem is that we have a code of laws so complex, so distorted by political arrogance and special-interest deal-making, that even the gigantic agencies charged with enforcing it can only shrug and say they try to follow the law whenever they can. There might be big problems at some of those agencies, but the system itself is an even bigger problem.
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