On the recordSeptember 19, 1996
the IRS told Joan Kilburn of Nevada she owed $92,000 that she said she did not. The IRS says, look, pay the $92,000, and we will leave you alone. Joan Kilburn said, you are wrong. And they said, prove it. After 18 months, thousands of dollars, Joan Kilburn proved a very simple fact. Her ex-husband owed the money and owed the money before they were married. They finally agreed. Ladies and gentlemen, tell me what has happened in our country when a Government bureaucrat can look at a citizen and say prove it. Prove it, and we will leave you alone. God Almighty, if we want to reform the IRS, then change the burden-of-proof law. In America, a person is innocent until proven guilty. Where did we allow the IRS to go off half-cocked, accusing our citizens of wrongs without proving it? Joan Kilburn, bravo. I yield back the balance of all those penalties.
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