On the recordApril 21, 2016
Yield myself such time as I may consume. We all agree that the IRS faces serious consumer service challenges and needs to be more responsive to the American taxpayer, but this bill is not a serious attempt at oversight of the IRS. In fact, with respect to making the IRS more responsive to taxpayers, this bill is a move in the wrong direction. But the fact that Republicans are moving in the wrong direction on tax policy really shouldn't be a surprise to any of us. They are not only starving our entire government of the resources that it needs to operate efficiently for the American public, but they are deliberately standing in the way of actual productive policies. Forget real tax reform that would bring positive benefits. They aren't even doing anything to fix what is broken in the system today. For example, the Republicans refuse to crack down on large corporations that seek to avoid paying their fair share of taxes simply by changing their mailing address from the United States to a low-tax foreign country. We see these stories on TV all the time, corporations renouncing their American citizenship to not have to pay any--any--U.S. taxes. But congressional Republicans have refused to take any action to stop these corporate tax dodgers and the resulting offshoring of American jobs.…
