The IRS Attacks

I was the victim of IRS incompetence once. By victim, I mean they screwed things up (apparently part of their mission), misread my new wife's Social Security number or some other completely inept thing, thought she had not paid her taxes and promptly garnisheed her wages.

You do not mess with my wife's money. She worked very hard to get it. Her fury was so expressive, it could be heard up and down the block. I feared neighbors would think I was beating her and call the cops.

The dear old IRS, through our attorney (who also does our tax filing), finally admitted their incompetence, and things were resolved. Good to have one of your best friends as an attorney.

But, no matter how you look at it, I was the primary victim. I had to absorb her fury that they, through entirely expectable, though incomprehensibly stunning incompetence, inflicted.

Their current "scandal"? In my good friend Joe Blotto's words "I could care less". Joe is a good sort: he really meant "I couldn't care less". 

True.