In the Nov. 5 edition of these American Thinker pages, critiquing the damage Robert Mueller has wrought on the FBI, James Lewis opined in passing that the Internal Revenue Service has lost its public credibility, perhaps irretrievably.  Taxation, of course, is always an unpopular but necessary evil, but the IRS, like all other tax-gatherer bureaucracies that are, were, and ever will be, should play the hand it is dealt with impartiality and fairness.  But the IRS has been shooting itself in the foot with ever increasing frequency and intensity in recent years on account of its politicization. The recent revelations of a secret taxpayer-bankrolled slush fund to facilitate settlement of sexual harassment claims made against current (and former) members of Congress has dealt a good card into the IRS's hand. If a list of the congressional beneficiaries of the hush fund were to fall into the IRS's hands, then statute and case law would posture...(Read Full Post)