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Published: 03/15/10

Why I Don't Hate the IRS -- and Neither Should You

By  Joann M. Weiner - Politics Daily
Why I Don't Hate the IRS -- and Neither Should You

If there is a more hated government agency than the IRS, I don't know what it is. Last year, irate taxpayers threatened more than 1,000 IRS employees with violence, and sometimes they acted on those threats, as we saw last month, when Andrew Joseph Stack III flew his plane into a seven-story building in Austin, Texas, killing himself and a 68-year-old Internal Revenue Service employee, Vernon Hunter. To many people who read about the tragedy, Hunter was just another government bureaucrat. But there was much more to the man. Hunter was a Vietnam veteran, an usher at the Mount Zion Baptist ...

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