I used to love to watch the A-Team. They were a bunch of misfits that rolled into a town run by a bunch of bad guys and cleaned things up (only after being put in a hopeless situation where they built something that provided an escape and a victory over the bad guys). The show illustrated how bad law and order could be in a ‘company’ town. Now, Washington, D.C., has become that company town and there is no A-Team in sight.

On Tuesday, Red State reported the following:

Add yet another government overreach to the “Things You Didn’t Think Could Happen in America” file: Democrats on the lame-duck House and Ways and Means Committee voted Tuesday to release six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. Why? Because they um, uh—because they want to?

But wait, you say to yourself, that’s not possible; your tax returns are private by federal law, and therefore protected from release.

The Dems of course found a sleazy way around that. The tax code allows the committee to look at people’s tax returns to provide “oversight” of the Internal Revenue Service, and by writing an official report on their findings, then those returns can legally become public as part of the report.

Nice.

So when are we going to see Hunter Biden’s tax returns, Nancy Pelosi’s tax returns, Adam Schiff’s tax returns, etc.? I wish the Republicans in the House had the guts to release those when they take the House in January, but I am not optimistic.

The article continues:

The intrusion of government into our private lives and the ongoing weaponization of federal departments have reached truly scary new heights. We see peaceful anti-abortion protesters rounded up by heavily armed squads, we find that the FBI worked closely with social media companies to censor citizens (a clear violation of the First Amendment), we’ve witnessed highly-questionable raids on Trump and his opponents, and now this.

Among other things, it sets a dangerous precedent, as we are likely to see more tax wars among political opponents in the future. Lawrence Gibbs, IRS Commissioner under Reagan and Bush the Elder, warned of this in 2019 [emphasis mine]:

As a former Internal Revenue Service commissioner, I believe taxpayers assume the IRS will protect the privacy and confidentiality of whatever information they put in their tax returns or otherwise provide to the IRS. I also believe that if politicians are able to obtain and make public the president’s tax returns and tax information, they are likely to do the same thing to anyone else they choose to target in the future, including but likely not limited to political donors or other supporters of any public figure in any political party.

I really wish there was an A-Team that would come into Washington, uphold the Constitution, and bring our country back to what it was founded to be.