Dave Barry Quotes
When I write my annual tax column, some ex-IRS agent will complain, "There you go IRS bashing again." They're always saying that they're just doing their job. Someone I know once said, "You could get another job."
Gillespie, Nick. "Dave Barry." Reason, Dec. 1993.
There are many who would disagree with Presti’s description, while many others have this as a chief complaint. The agency tends to change from administration to administration as to its policies and collection methods. In the decades since this criticism, the agency has changed a good deal. However, there are great differences between IRS practices in different parts of the country, some of which are better than the others. One of the major problems of the IRS is the conflict between collecting taxes that should have been paid and were not and ruining the business or individual that committed the offense by taking current working capital. Congress has NEVER weighed in on this question preferring to let the Civil Servants take the heat.
David McAlister Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005).
