Remember The IRS Scandal? I Didn’t Think So

It was all the rage a few months ago.  It was going to be the downfall of the Obama Administration.  Instead it has turned out to be poor management which is now being corrected.

“Lawmakers from both parties say a clear portrait has emerged of a troubled and unaccountable agency that overreached when it came to overseeing nonprofits.

What they haven’t yet found is any direct ties linking the White House to the scandal. . .

But patience among Ways and Means Democrats, especially ranking member Sander Levin of Michigan, is wearing thin. Since the scandal first broke, it has emerged that it wasn’t just tea-party groups that were on the agency’s controversial “be on the lookout” lists. Some left-leaning organizations were on there, too.

Levin has said the panel’s Republicans have been so focused on making political hay of the scandal that they have focused insufficiently on mending the mismanaged tax agency. And he notes that their focus on linking the scandal to the White House hasn’t turned anything up.”

Nothing to see here.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.