Tim Scott actually said...

"That is why I introduced the RESPECT Act to require the IRS to show probable cause before seizing assets and facilitate taxpayer presentation of proof that would clear them of wrongdoing."

"This is basically an issue of liberty, and there is a bipartisan consensus that civil asset forfeiture is an abuse that needs to be stopped."

"The IRS currently wields a tremendous amount of power over the folks in South Carolina and across the country, far more than the founders intended."

"Having grown up in one of those distressed communities myself, I understand and appreciate the potential that is locked, trapped in the soil in those communities."