Deroy Murdock, National Review
NEW YORK - Why are Americans enraged? As this moribund economy limps through the third year of doldrums, Americans are sick of having their hard-earned money swiped by Washington, D.C.'s Democrat-dominated political class, which is clueless, condescending, and invariably costly.Could anything but cluelessness explain what happened when Harv's Metro Car Wash in Sacramento owed the federal government precisely four pennies due to a mistaken tax return? Rather than shrug at a four-cent error, the IRS dispatched two agents to deliver a letter by hand informing the owner of his tax debt....
NEW YORK - Why are Americans enraged? As this moribund economy limps through the third year of doldrums, Americans are sick of having their hard-earned money swiped by Washington, D.C.'s Democrat-dominated political class, which is clueless, condescending, and invariably costly.Could anything but cluelessness explain what happened when Harv's Metro Car Wash in Sacramento owed the federal government precisely four pennies due to a mistaken tax return? Rather than shrug at a four-cent error, the IRS dispatched two agents to deliver a letter by hand informing the owner of his tax debt....
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