Obama’s budget calls for the hiring of an additional 5,100 IRS agents and the agency gets a budget increase of 9.4 percent. As today’s WSJ editorial (subscriber content, alas) comments, “This is the same mentality that gave us the IRS Form 1099 small business harassment as part of ObamaCare, a provision that 81 Senators voted last week to repeal.”
The US has a gigantic and growing debt that requires us to borrow as if money were free and inexhaustible, and the Obama regime wants to borrow still more to hire people who might otherwise be creating value, so they can instead seize money that would otherwise be spent or invested productively by individuals and businesses. This is how nations go downhill, by draining resources from the productive sector to enrich the unproductive.
