CNET reports on a new initiative for the IRS to make better use of the Internet. The following paragraph leaped out at me:
Granted, there's time for the final legislation to actually get drafted before it reaches the Senate floor. Assuming the Senate reads it. But it just seems to me like a really bad idea to have even a Senate subcommittee voting on a bill that hasn't actually been written yet. It seems to me this opens up the possibility of the IRS having a pre-approved bill that they can then write whatever they want into.
And given the past track record of the IRS in harrassment and abuses, that's an unsettling idea.