Don Brunell

Last month, an inspector general for the Treasury Department revealed that from 2010 to 2012 the Internal Revenue Service handed out $1 million in bonuses to 1,150 workers who owed back taxes.

Over the same period, the IRS paid out an additional $1.8 million in bonuses to workers with disciplinary problems, including misusing government credit cards, drug use, threats of violence and unemployment benefits fraud.

Give us a break! Apparently, IRS workers don’t have to follow the same rules as the rest of us who pay their salaries. According to the inspector general’s report, the IRS doesn’t take...