“Thank goodness that the IRS was not around to help the founders when they founded the country or otherwise they’d [have] probably shot the Boston Tea Party participants,” he said. “They would have killed off over half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and this country would’ve never gotten started.”
The conservative congressman was basing his remarks on a report that said tea party organizations and Christian groups were subject to heightened scrutiny by the IRS when applying for tax-exempt status.
The agency was set up by an act of Congress in 1862.
