Many no longer trust the IRS to enforce tax laws impartially without regard to an individual's exercise of their constitutional rights.
Unfortunately, in my judgment, the agreement reached last year just didn't meet the standard.
The budget request you are making this year admittedly is sizeable. I appreciate you are a little bit different circumstance.
You are saying political appointees, we have no evidence that they were involved.
To Tea Party groups, it was consistent. It was group after group after group.
I opposed the decision last fall to amend the Budget Control Act to escalate Federal discretionary spending back over a $1 trillion.
I would love to start a dialogue with you in just a general way about these issues.
I cannot imagine as the Secretary of Agriculture walking into OMB and saying to them, I want half of every increase in discretionary dollars...
Now again, to the average American, the thought that you would--not you, but the IRS--would award an employee who is not paying their taxes ...
We especially need to do more for our country's small businesses.
Isn't there a way to put some streamline behind this, and because at the end of the day, it needs to get done, right?