On: Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required

[at-fates-hands]

Keep in mind, this is the only government entity who spent millions of dollars to figure out how to continue to collect taxes in the event of a nuclear war and the collapse of society.

Great book if you want to get really scared about how much power the IRS actually has: http://www.amazon.com/Law-Unto-Itself-Abuse-Power/dp/0679732...?

I wonder whatever happened to the "kinder gentler" IRS we were supposed to get with the Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998?

Just in case you're lazy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service_Restru...

[tedunangst → at-fates-hands]

> this is the only government entity who spent millions of dollars to figure out how to continue to collect taxes in the event of a nuclear war

There is an odd implication to that statement, that you apparently believe multiple government agencies should have developed such plans.

[13 → tedunangst]

I read it the other way around, that other governments wouldn't do something so ridiculous.