I’m sure it is. I was so disgusted when I read that the IRS is now going to be focusing on people like her (and like me, because I’m self-employed and pay and even over-pay my taxes, since sometimes I have to enter into exorbitant payment plans with the IRS and other times I have paid with credit cards that I am still paying).
We need a neutral tax such as the Fair Tax that simply taxes what you spend and not what you get. You can control what you spend and there is also a record and nobody can challenge it. On the other hand, a system that taxes income is always hovering over every individual citizen and treats them like sneaks whose real duty was to pay the state but who are hiding $10 here and there.
At the same time, privileged folks (ranging from Cabinet members and Senators to Al Sharpton, who has never paid his penalties but has not gone to jail, either) get to thumb their noses at the whole thing.
I did tell the IRS agent that I spoke to in November that I wanted the “Timothy Geitner payment plan”. No go for me. I get penalties and interest.