Watch those horror stories in the IRS probe and you get an idea of how our government is reducing its debt - with shakedowns by collection agents who must have studied revenue procurement under John Gotti.

- Gross inefficiency, threats, callousness, intimidation and rudeness - all attributed to the IRS. A spokesperson said, "We're working on the rudeness."- It remains to be seen how Congress will deal with these allegations; and the agency may be beyond fixing. A kinder, gentler IRS sounds like a laid-back Gestapo.

Los Angeles Times Syndicate

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