Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “I will be glad to say it again. It's that shocking. We were paying private debt collection companies, instead of paying…”

“I will be glad to say it again. It's that shocking. We were paying private debt collection companies, instead of paying IRS employees a salary, to collect the debt that is owed in taxes from the people who have not been paying their taxes, $70 million to private debt collection companies to collect $20 million, and if we had spent the same $70 million, the statistics show that the track record of IRS employees paid the same amount of money would have collected $1.6 billion. $1.6 billion would have been collected by government employees working for the IRS who we have to presume are quite a bit more trustworthy with our constituents' private, personal information in this time of stolen identities and stolen funds from our constituents. The thing that strikes me as the most disturbing about this is that the Republicans talk this good game about being fiscally responsible and being the ones that are the stewards of the public's tax dollars, and then let's go down the list of where our votes and our leadership has been as Democrats under Speaker Pelosi and where theirs have been.”