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Tom Carper: “Underfunding the IRS is like underfunding your accounts receivable department. No rational business would do that.”

On the recordJuly 17, 2017
Underfunding the IRS is like underfunding your accounts receivable department. No rational business would do that.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Carper criticized Congress for underfunding the IRS, likening it to poor business practices.

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