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Tucked into the highway bill congress">Congress recently passed was a provision that, on the surface, looks like a sensible way to prevent tax cheats from skipping the country.

We've written a great deal about the federal government's abuse of our Fourth Amendment rights through its repeated use of warrantless searches. Now we learn the abuses reach beyond the usual suspects -- the NSA, FBI, and CIA -- and include the IRS:

In the spring, we learned the hackers broke into the IRS computer system and obtained access to around 100,000 taxpayers accounts. That number has soared to more than 300,000. And it may get much worse:

Remember the Lois Lerner scandal at the IRS? You remember: the one where the tax agency swore it looked high and low for her "missing" emails relating to targeting of liberty and tea party groups...and couldn't find a thing (until it did)?

President Obama is doubling -- or maybe it's trippling -- down on his global warming bets, promising even more taxpayer money for so-called "green energy" projects...and enlis

congress">Congress asked the IRS to take a closer look at the Clinton Foundation, which has accepted some very sketchy

Hackers broke in to the IRS computer system and stole the personal information of more than 100,000 taxpayers. Who could have seen a massive security breach like this coming? Anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention:

Last year, the IRS said it was changing its policy about seizing bank accounts from small business owners who made numerous small bank deposits -- a practice the agency said was a cover for illegal activity. A case out of North Carolina shows the policy hasn't changed. If anything, it's gotten much, much worse:

Out on the campaign trail, Republican contenders like Sen. Ted Cruz are calling for the abolition of the IRS. Senator Rand Paul wants congressional term limits and would junk the Patriot Act.