Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Look! Suddenly Republicans Don't Hate the IRS

Crippling the tax collector seemed like a good way to weaken Obamacare. Uh-oh, now there's a new tax law.

February 13, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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Big legislation passes Congress, creating new responsibilities for the Internal Revenue Service. Congressional conservatives have a simple answer: slash spending for the agency to cripple a new measure they couldn’t defeat.

That’s what happened seven years ago after enactment of the Affordable Care Act.