In some sense, there’s nothing remotely funny about the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party organizations.
It is disgusting that a powerful arm of the government became a corrupt vehicle for illegal partisan politics.
But it’s better to laugh rather than cry, so let’s enjoy this new video from Remy at Reason TV.
And let’s not forget that the IRS rewarded itself with big bonuses after the scandal!
President Obama infamously claimed there wasn’t a “smidgen” of corruption at the IRS. This Glenn Foden cartoon is the only appropriate response.
P.S. Switching to another topic, I explained recently that the left was wrong about unemployment insurance. The statists told us that paying people to be unemployed wouldn’t increase joblessness, but virtually all the evidence is on the other side.
Now we have even more research emphasizing that point. Here’s a blurb from some new research published by the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
…we find that the extension of unemployment benefits affected the labor market status of long-term unemployed workers in late 2013. Without extended UI benefits, these unemployed workers would have been more likely to be employed, more likely to exit the labor force, and on average 1.9 percent less likely to remain unemployed in the following period. In short, our simulated early termination of the EUC program lowered the unemployment rate by 3 to 5 basis points, suggesting that the December 2013 expiration of the EUC program might have slightly lowered the unemployment rate in early 2014.
However, since most leftists are not very literate about economics, let’s simplify the issue. Maybe they can understand some cartoons. Here are some options from Michael Ramirez, Robert Gorrell, and Chuck Asay, as well as a great Wizard-of-Id parody.