Jack Kingston: “Now to give my colleagues an idea of the Federal Government Washington command control bureaucracy view on taxes versus…”

“Now to give my colleagues an idea of the Federal Government Washington command control bureaucracy view on taxes versus drugs, when we talked about earlier 13- and 14-year-olds using marijuana higher than ever before, I think, in history, but it is up anywhere from 137 to 200 percent depending on what age group in that 12-to-14 range, here is what we have fighting drugs. Now this chart, I hope you can see it. The DEA has 6,700 employees, and that is to fight drugs. The Border Patrol, immigration folks, 5,800 employees. So that is what we have got. You know, we will just round this up and say about 13,000 employees for fighting drugs and illegal immigration. For the IRS we have 111,000 employees. Now, of those 111,000 employees, for every 3,000 citizens of America there is one criminal investigator. So what we are saying is, no, we cannot fight drugs, we cannot fight illegal immigration, but we can audit you, and we can make sure that you are paying your taxes, and people should pay their taxes, and IRS should be able to collect it. But it shows a disproportionate value rendered when you have 110,000 IRS employees versus 13,000 Border Patrol and drug enforcement.”