Latest GOP repeal tactic: Starve the IRS (whatever it takes)

Latest GOP repeal tactic: Starve the IRSBy Jason Millman - 02/17/11 12:37 PM ET Republicans pushing to cut off funding to implement the healthcare reform law are setting their sights on the Internal Revenue Service. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) launched the first major IRS-targeted attack this week, introducing an amendment to the GOP’s spending bill that would prevent the agency from paying employees to implement the reform law’s individual and employer mandates. McMorris Rodgers, the fifth-ranking House Republican, earlier this month also offered up a bill that would block the IRS from hiring employees to enforce the requirement that...