Bernie Becker and Kevin Bogardus write in The Hill that, according to “two top tax writers on Capitol Hill … the case for tax reform has been strengthened by the recent revelations about Apple’s tax tactics and the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups.”

The juxtaposition here seems a little ungainly.  The one activity was legal and the other … most, likely not.  Apple’s CEO answered the questions put to him by a committee of Congress, while a ranking IRS bureaucrat took the Fifth.  Also, Apple is a private company that plays marketplace hardball but, in the end, can’t force anyone to do anything, while the IRS  wields all the intimidating and, it appears, wildly discretionary powers of the central government.