Democrats in Washington just added $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service’s budget, supercharging and rewarding an agency that has a notorious track record of abusing its power for political purposes.
Nine years ago, the Obama-Biden IRS was caught targeting conservative organizations leading up to the 2012 presidential election. People were assured the scandal would be thoroughly investigated, but the IRS was already busy destroying evidence behind closed doors. In total, 422 backup tapes holding 24,000 emails from Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of the targeting scheme, were erased.
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