MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Celebrates Tax Day By Sticking Up for the IRS

On Tax Day, Chris Hayes Sticks Up for the IRS (NewsBusters)

MSNBC's Chris Hayes celebrated Tax Day by standing up for the IRS as the "cornerstone" of the federal government and lambasting Republicans for trying to gut the agency.

"Conservatives recognize that one of the only things standing between us and a genuine plutocracy are thousands of anonymous bureaucrats doing the basic work of enforcing our nation's laws," Hayes said, painting a homey picture of IRS workers holding up democracy instead of targeting Tea Party groups.

The poor IRS. Hayes says it's misunderstood and Republicans are to blame for whipping up fury over its targeting of Tea party Groups. "But conservatives don't just go after the agency's budget. Equally important is destroying its reputation. They want every American to loathe and fear the IRS as much as they do."