Earl Glynn on How Obamacare Empowers the IRS
While promoting Obamacare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged Americans to think of it as a kind of Christmas present. "We have to pass the (health care) bill so that you can find out what is in it," she told the National Association of Counties in March 2010, days before President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. As Earl Glynn reports, we now know that the surprise inside Obamacare includes an historic expansion of the IRS, arguably the most hated of federal agencies.
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