I do not really understand (U.S.) taxes. On John Koskinen's Committee testimony before Congress.

While people like me are concerned with tax regimes and have made attempts first - hand and through other people to publish on the subject, there is more grist for the mill in news and television coverage this past week about the IRS targeting of members of conservative groups, including ordinary GOP members and members of its offshoots, of which constituents of the Tea Party organization.  Without further ado, and outside the issue their members wherever these might be serving as targets of IRS tax investigations and harassment, the members of these groups and the messages of the groups themselves, deemed however controversial and damaging to the country by other controversial groups with leftist tendencies, if not at least more liberal groups and individuals not aware of the leftist tendencies they represent in the fitful and conflicted dialogue with Tea Party and GOP and other conservatives and their representatives, notably those who'll "give or take" most things starting with the abortion argument, taxes and the like, and these issues have been along the same lines since the founding fathers or at least since the creation of the current federal tax regime some time ago, mention in the early 1900's.

To mention the coverage, even the news highlights of the IRS Commissioner's testimony (along with his "look at me, trust me" appearance and wistful mood in his speech before Congress) and interrogatory before Congress, again this past week, it is possible to interpret the talks from the IRS side as to provoke every misunderstanding due to the overall secrecy and confidential nature of much of what the IRS deals with on every administrative and field level office and every day.  This is what makes such acts as published in the papers and on TV as completely incomprehensible from the administrative standpoint, further confusing and apparently even magical in nature and more and more difficult and angering to view and read about, and much more so if one is a congressperson or staffer trying to understand.  As an example of the type of provocation these talks represent, a single computer during the year 2011, first apparently corrupted and then inoperable, is at length an issue in these talks preliminary to proceedings presumably aimed at confirming taxpayer harassment and targeting by the IRS as a service and as ordered apparently at a high level.  The pervasive nature of what apparently has happened with respect to some people is frightening and so shaking for some that people in these hearings are not talking straight, and this has apparently made the alleged offenders more arrogant and irritating in their words and demeanor, and as such viewers like me do know there is a danger at this point to mentioning one single employee and a related end - user IS that failed as responsible singly and only as culpable in this burgeoning and increasingly volatile political fracas about what the IRS actually does.  Help.