Roskam cripples IRS; then demonizes it

My congressman Peter Roskam (IL-6) has spent a cool quarter million or more this campaign cycle touting his signature achievement in his congressional decade: crippling, then demonizing the IRS. Seven glossy full color brochures clogged my mailbox, everyone touting this dubious achievement. Then the ubiquitous TV ads appeared, every one the same with Roskam telling me not to listen to the election 'noise' (read Roskam pick Trump's moral depravity) but focus on his successful war against the hated tax collector. Roskam claims to not only to have stopped the IRS from confiscating assets of a small business without a 'whiff' of evidence, he got them to apologize. Big smile...fadeout. 

That may take first prize for campaign sophistry, using false arguments to deceive people. Since gaining control of Congress in 2011, Roskam and his Republican obstructionists have decimated the IRS' ability to collect the tax money that keeps government working for us. Down 5,000 agents since  

then, the agency can barely live answer half the calls from folks needing tax information, struggle to keep IRS offices not closed with proper business supplies, much less efficiently stop tax cheating, becoming rampant thanks to Roskam led drowning in the proverbial Republican bathtub. Roskam may be proud of supporting the $346 million cut last year in IRS funding, apparently oblivious of the truth that every dollar cut, cuts $6 of valid tax from filling Treasure coffers. 

Roskam is fond of visiting 6th District schools to mentor impressionable students on the importance of government service and the daily life of a Congressman. In the next Q & A I'd like to see a precocious lad or lassie pose this query: "Mr. Congressman, having made millions in salary and benefits in your long political career, why must you be compelled to bite the hand that feeds you?"