The coming tax season “disaster”
The IRS is in big trouble and taxpayers may be the ones who suffer the consequences this tax filing season. The mammoth backlog of unprocessed returns from the previous year,…
GAO: Uncle Sam’s financial statements are a mess
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released its annual audit of the federal government’s financial statements. The verdict? Pretty much as you would expect: …much work remains to improve federal…
The IRS is very, very bad at protecting your personal data
Giving the IRS more power to extract taxes from a host of people, companies, and assorted financial entities has been a long-held dream of many politicians. In their mind, mountains…
Lying is in the politicians’ DNA
Politicians lie. All of them, regardless of whether they play for Team Red, Team Blue, or something in-between. Lying is part of the job description – or at least it…
Government failure and the FDA
When the history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, a chapter or three will have to be devoted to government failures. Not just the usual ones about messaging. But the…
Decentralize DC’s bureaucracy
The idea of moving pieces of the federal bureaucracy outside the beltway has long been a favorite topic of those who want to bring government agencies closer – in geography…
Government buying a shortcut around the Fourth Amendment
It’s no secret the federal government would prefer not to have to deal with that pesky Fourth Amendment, which requires the feds to get warrants before they can go poking…
The tax man’s troubling arsenal
While the possibility that the IRS will have more power to sift through our daily banking activities appears to have diminished, there is one odd thing about the tax collection…
The FDA continues to fail the American public
The Food and Drug administration’s role in approving vaccines to combat the coronavirus shed a new level of scrutiny on the critical government agency and its gatekeeper role in America’s…
How civil asset forfeiture undermines law enforcement
What happens when a small town police force discovers it can make bank through a government program intended to stifle drug crimes? You get a bad case of civil asset…
