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Look at the charts in your own link, spanning 2007-17. Audit rates were increasing under GWB, then plummeted over the course of the Obama administration into 2017.

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The Republican congress got serious about attacking the IRS after the fake IRS Tea Party scandal.

Fake scandal? No, that's re-writing history. Obama suggested the IRS target his enemies, mostly conservative groups, and the IRS did exactly that. The only thing fake about it is the news reports calling the scandal "fake."

Do you have sources on Obama suggesting that?

Otherwise it's just a very baseless claim about an otherwise well documented problem about a few IRS bureaucrats. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy )

No, I don't. I should have said Obama Administration, because I don't know from where the order came. That's a good call on your part. I'll see if I can edit. Edit: no I can't edit that post. Obama himself may be guilty only of not placing the best people at the IRS.

I argue we should know more about this but don't because "oh, it's fake." ... And because of the deleted evidence.

Obama appointees, yes, thanks to discovery pursued by Judicial Watch:

http://www.breitbart.com/irs/2017/03/13/fitton-obama-irs-sca...

Look at how the funds requested by Obama got denied by Congress again and again.

The decrease started after the Democrats took sole control of Congress in January 2007 and accelerated while they were still in total control of Congress and the Presidency.

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