No, the IRS Scandal Doesn't Mean the IRS Needs a Bigger Budget

Vox.com, the fancy new journalism “explainer” website founded by Ezra Klein, is up with a fresh take on the IRS scandal: “The IRS scandal shows the IRS needs a bigger budget.”

Now, I suppose we should be grateful that Vox is acknowledging that the IRS scandal is in fact a scandal, despite the ridiculous aside about “whether or not investigations were even biased in the first place is a matter of some dispute.” It’s not really a matter of dispute outside the partisan salt mines at Think Progress and Vox. The IRS openly admitted they were improperly targeting conservative groups. This inconvenient fact keeps getting swept under the rug as the campaign to disingenuously wish away the IRS scandal continues.