Check out this great post on the IRS by William Grigg, who’s been on a roll lately.
One of Yancey’s supervisors considered taxpayers to be, at best, fodder for the firing squad. That official, Yancey recalls, ended a profanity-infused tirade by describing taxpayers unable to surrender every dime demanded by agents of federal extortion as “Deadbeats … if it were up to me, I’d line ’em all up against a wall and shoot them.”
Yancey’s supervisor obviously shared the late Joseph Stack’s view that “violence is the only answer” — whether that violence is implicit or overt.
