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Peter Roskam: “When this institution, the Internal Revenue Service, reaches its long arm into our lives and grabs somebody by the neck…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2014
When this institution, the Internal Revenue Service, reaches its long arm into our lives and grabs somebody by the neck and shakes them up, it gets people's attention and it can be incredibly damaging.
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Peter Roskam
Republican · Illinois

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Roskam warns about the potential negative impact of IRS actions on citizens.

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