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Subject: Re: IRS (was: bad signatures on checks) (leaking Congresscritters' tax returns)
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 20:40:36 EDT
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>While the allegation about IRS exposing the tax returns of Congresscritters
>which seek to defang the IRS smacks (the exposing) of foul play, it also
>seems to me that if a Congresscritter managed his/her financial affairs totally
>honorably and meticulously (is that congenitally impossible for a
>Congresscritter :-)?) that an exposed tax return or even the most intensive
>of audits would provide el zippo (zilch, none) ammunition for the IRS,
>and that any despicable behavior on the part of the IRS would provide that
>much more ammunition for the Congresscritter's case.  Surely if the IRS
>is that naughty, there MUST be someone somewhere with a simon-pure tax
>record who would be willing to make that sacrifice as a member of Congress
>in order to correct those alleged KGB-like IRS abuses.

I have heard of a book by a former Congresscritter (I like that name :)
who challenged the IRS.  During his next election, the IRS started 
investigating him for tax fraud and tax evasion.  He lost the election
and the IRS declared that their investigations uncovered nothing and
all charges were dropped.  I believe the book was suppose to be
autobiographical,  anyone know who the congresscritter was and what
his book was called?
E.Eades