[okie01]

BTW, here's an excellent wedge issue for a 2012 Republican presidential candidate: He (or she) promises to sign an Executive Order on day one in office, empowering and requiring the IRS to withhold delinquent tax payments from all federal paychecks.

We can improve on that.

The GOP majority in 2011 should immediately sponsor a bill saying that nobody who is in arrears to the IRS may hold a federal job.

That way, we not only eventually collect their frigging taxes, we get them gone from government. And they shouldn't be replaced!

[muawiyah]

You would be expanding the power of the federal government if you did so.

By logical extension IRS would acquire the power to fire anyone at a government contractor's simply by concocting an IRS deficiency.

So, who can be construed to be a "government contractor"? To start with any retailer who ever sold anything to a federal agency via credit card.

Please think this through.