Mr. Adams //We know for a fact that every dollar spent on the IRS will generate several dollars of revenueNo, actually we don't know that.What we do know, because the IRS freely admits this is that their goal is not to extract the legal maximum dollars owed. Their goal is to go after every taxpayer, regardless of how much they owe. This is an extremely distorted evaluation metric for IRS agents because it creates the incentive to target the largest number of *people*, i.e. the vulnerable poor who they know will not argue or sue the IRS. Shaking people down for $600 Venmo payments is the latest in this perverse incentive that's sold as bridging the gap of *billions* owed. As if there were really millions of people dodging taxes through $600 Venmo payments. It's as absurd as going after waitresses from cheap greasy spoons who don't declare all their tips. Because that's where the real money is, right? If the evaluation metric was instead to target the largest number of *dollars*, then indeed IRS agents would target the rich who owe lots of taxes.But they don't do that, and have no plans to do that.

Mr. Adams //We know for a fact that every dollar spent on the IRS will generate several dollars of revenueNo, actually we don't know that.What we do know, because the IRS freely admits this is that their goal is not to extract the legal maximum dollars owed. Their goal is to go after every taxpayer, regardless of how much they owe. This is an extremely distorted evaluation metric for IRS agents because it creates the incentive to target the largest number of *people*, i.e. the vulnerable poor who they know will not argue or sue the IRS. Shaking people down for $600 Venmo payments is the latest in this perverse incentive that's sold as bridging the gap of *billions* owed. As if there were really millions of people dodging taxes through $600 Venmo payments. It's as absurd as going after waitresses from cheap greasy spoons who don't declare all their tips. Because that's where the real money is, right? If the evaluation metric was instead to target the largest number of *dollars*, then indeed IRS agents would target the rich who owe lots of taxes.But they don't do that, and have no plans to do that.

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