Under Clinton you risked an audit of your taxes or worse. Much worse. But because the "mainstream" press ignored it, it just didn't happen.
As to world "leaders" that actively tried to hurt us....they ought to go pound sand!
A friend of mine knows Newt and worked on several books with him. Newt wrote an acknowledgement to him in one of the books. Soon after that my friend taxes were audited and his business was subject to a OSHA audit.