The IRS increased the number of returns it audited by nearly 11 percent this year. Wealthy taxpayers and big businesses were most likely to be targeted.
The agents use their training, experience, education, previous data and intuition to narrow the field as to who is most likely to file a return that may be flawed. In doing do, their success ratio is improved and tax filers who are not likely to have erred are spared the aggravation of an audit. Not everyone the IRS audits are guilty of filing an improper return. The IRS just feels the filers they choose are more likely to have made a mistake; either accidently or by design.
THAT IS PROFILING. And, that makes sense.
What doesn’t seem to make sense is not allowing other law enforcement officers the same opportunity. The law enforcement community is also well trained, experienced, educated, has years of data to draw from and uses their instincts daily. Why don’t we allow them to use those traits to keep our airports safe, reduce the number of illegal aliens, apprehend drug dealers, detain weapons offenders and question other potential lawbreakers?
Wouldn’t the same use of “profiling”, that IRS agents use, by all law enforcement agents keep us safer, be cost effective and reduce the inconvenience of those who are detained just to show profiling is not used?
It’s time to rethink Political Correctness.
To read more on Profiling and other timely subjects, please see:
"Essays From a Fed-Up Middle Aged, Middle Class American" By: Andy Strum
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