Jack Kingston: “One of the things we have come across on the Committee on Appropriations, as you know, is plain out inefficiency, which…”

“One of the things we have come across on the Committee on Appropriations, as you know, is plain out inefficiency, which is what this is, and the biggest example that we hear the most complaints about is the IRS. One of the examples that was testified is the IRS went into a restaurant in New York, asked the patrons to leave, put down their forks and knives, leave, because the restaurant was behind in their payroll taxes. A month later it was proven that it was a mistake. So what does the IRS do? They say gee, whiz, we are sorry. Think about that in the private sector, if you had somebody in charge of enforcing a law, a rule or whatever, in your company, and they blew it, just completely blew it. We are on the verge of passing a bill in on the IRS which is similar to the legislation you are working on for an intangible efficiency, if you will, but of saying that if you are dragged before the IRS, you are innocent until proven guilty.”