James Traficant: “The Republican Party's new bill makes great strides in protecting taxpayers' rights. I commend them for including one of…”

“The Republican Party's new bill makes great strides in protecting taxpayers' rights. I commend them for including one of my provisions that allows a taxpayer to sue the IRS up to $1 million for reckless collections. But this bill is not a great bill. It stops short. The truth is the bill leaves out changing the burden of proof in a tax case. And after all the hype, ladies and gentlemen, a taxpayer in a civil tax case will still be considered guilty in the eyes of the law and must prove their innocence. Once again the IRS reaches in, the IRS wins, the taxpayers lose. The IRS says it will cost too much money. Mr. Speaker, if the IRS scored the Constitution, they would throw out the Bill of Rights. I say it is time to tell these ratch-a-frachen, bric-a-bracken bunch of pantaloomases that the taxpayers run this show, not the IRS. The Republican Party could do something the Democrats did not have the courage to do, and we have allowed the taxpayers to be treated as dogs, guilty before the law. Shame, Congress. Let us make it a great bill.”