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BYRON YORK: Health care reform means more power for the IRS. ?If the plan envisioned by President ?

By Glenn Reynolds

BYRON YORK: Health care reform means more power for the IRS. “If the plan envisioned by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats is enacted, the primary federal bureaucracy responsible for implementing and enforcing national health care will be an old and familiar one: the Internal Revenue Service. Under the Democrats’ health care proposals, the already powerful ? and already feared ? IRS would wield even more power and extend its reach even farther into the lives of ordinary Americans, and the presidentially-appointed head of the new health care bureaucracy would have access to confidential IRS information about millions of individual taxpayers.” Well, what could go wrong?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 03, 2009 (boomark / email).