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James Traficant: “The IRS has a quota system. The IRS promotes workers who bully taxpayers. The IRS targets opponents. The IRS literally…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 1997
The IRS has a quota system. The IRS promotes workers who bully taxpayers. The IRS targets opponents. The IRS literally snoops through our files. The IRS has caused Bruce Barron and Alex Council to actually commit suicide. And after all this, a spokesman says the White House will champion the cause of the IRS because the criticism has been blown way out of proportion. Beam me up. Let us tell it like it is. The White House is defending an agency that has become absolutely a Gestapo-type agency, un-American, out of control. I am totally convinced that at the White House they are out for soup with the group; they have gone for lunch with the bunch; and they must be smoking dope, so help me God. I yield back the balance of the atrocities of the IRS.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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govinfo.gov

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Criticizing the IRS and its practices during a speech on the House floor.

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