America depends on the Internal Revenue Service to collect revenues from a “mostly voluntary system of tax compliance,” but this is being impeded by Republican lawmakers who won’t stop “picking on” the struggling federal agency, the Washington Post’s editorial board argued this week.

“The House has passed a series of sniping, counterproductive measures picking on the IRS,” they wrote. “One [measure] would limit how it spends the user fees it collects. Another would freeze hiring at the understaffed agency until it obtains certification that no one there has major tax debt. The dumbest would mandate that no one at the IRS could get a bonus until customer service improves.”