Ace investigative tax reporter David Cay Johnston has tracked down another ridiculous IRS proposal: outsource the writing of IRS regulations to the people they regulate.
Looking at the issue in its broadest terms, Gary D. Bass, executive director of OMB Watch, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that tracks the Office of Management and Budget, warned that the Bush administration was turning over too much government responsibility to those it is supposed to be keeping an eye on.
"Why don't we just privatize Congress and outsource the development of our laws?" he asked.
"People would chuckle at letting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or OMB Watch write the laws," he went on, "but that is what is being done by this administration, which keeps outsourcing more and more regulation work."