Quote of the Day

From presidential candidate Ben Carson, during last night's GOP debate:

I never had an audit until I spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast. And then all of the sudden they came in and said, “We just want to look at your real estate dealings.” And then they didn’t find anything. And then they took a look at the whole year. And they didn’t find anything. And then they looked at the next year and they didn’t find anything. And they won’t find anything… The fact is the IRS is not honest and we [need] to get rid of them.

It has been 43 years since Nixon was president. In all that time, we haven't learned that IRS audits are being used as political tools to punish the president's enemies?

But the quote above isn't the quote of the day. The following from H.L. Mencken is:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. 

Amazingly, the guys running who want to get rid of the IRS aren't being supported by a majority of the voters. Mencken was right.