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Study: IRS under Democrats targets taxpayers ‘significantly more’

By Paul Bedard

Published January 25, 2016 2:04pm ET

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Study: IRS under Democrats targets taxpayers ‘significantly more’ — Keith Peacock, of Hainesport, holds a sign during a tea party rally protesting extra IRS scrutiny of their groups in the IRS scandal of 2013. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) | Mel Evans

The Internal Revenue Service has a history of going after more individual Americans and corporations when Democrats control Washington, especially the White House, according to a comprehensive study of the agency going back to 1978.

What’s more, when Democrats run the Senate, as they did during the Obama administration’s IRS targeting scandal, the agency is typically given more money to hire more auditors who conduct more audits.

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