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This 4-page paper discusses the political aspects of the Internal Revenue Service (i.e., its use by politicians) and how it has been perceived by the general public. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a cynical look and at worst a horror story about payments of huge back taxes or people thrown in jail. And its true that once upon a time, the IRS
was an agency that was fearsome, even almost dangerous in some ways, In fact the IRS made news - and not good news - during the late 1990s as people
came forward to complain about the ordeals theyd undergone from IRS representatives. Reform was supposed to be forthcoming, and today, the IRS could be considered to be a kinder, gentler
government organization. History shows, however, that it wasnt always that way. In the book The Power to Destroy: The Political Uses of
the IRS from Kennedy to Nixon (2002), author John Andrew points out that the White House used the power of taxation (i.e., the IRS) to both reward friends and attack
enemies1. Andrew goes on to note that President John F. Kennedy, for example, launched an "Ideological Organizations Project" to use the IRS to stop funding to the right-wing John Birch
Society (by challenging the organizations tax-exempt status)2. Kennedys successor Johnson then used the IRS to promise tax favors to rich individuals in exchange for votes3. Then the Nixon administration used
the IRS to persecute people on the presidents enemies list - Nixon would request the IRS to launch audits and investigations on opponents such as the Jerry Rubin Foundation, the
Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Center for Corporate Responsibility4. The administration was pretty upfront about it, too. According to Nixon aide John Dean, the administration regularly used federal organization
such as the IRS to, in his words, "screw our political enemies"5. Yet over the years, following the abuses of government brought
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