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The big thing of course, has been the graft in the Internal Revenue Bureau. This has completely overshadowed the deep freeze and mink coat episodes, and for an excellent reason. As Robert Ruark put it, “We cannot understand a billion here, a billion there, because so few of us deal in billions that they just represent a long line of zeros. We cannot understand the deviations of the state department. The good Lord knows we cannot understand what has transpired with prices and ceilings and economics in general, because it is a solid cinch the people who perpetrate them do not understand them, either.
“But there is one thing we know, from Natchez to Mobile, and Memphis to St. Joe. Taxes we know. 1 know 'em, because I owe 'em. You know 'em. You know 'em because they squeeze ’em right out of your tired old take-home, , and you never get through the one year without fretting about the next."
Everyone kicks at the tax collector as a matter of course, but everyone has believed that Internal Revenue was honest as they come. Now that the Bureau as taken on the odor of an ancient fish, the general public has turned whopping mad. And on the level of general principle, it seems certain that many millions of average
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