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Mike Crapo: “There is a very real and, I think, justified perception among the people of the United States that the Internal Revenue…”

On the recordMay 20, 2013
There is a very real and, I think, justified perception among the people of the United States that the Internal Revenue Service is in many real ways the prosecutor, the judge, the jury, and the executioner.
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Mike Crapo
Republican · Idaho

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Crapo expresses public concern over IRS power and its implications.

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