Lets face it, the IRS is as lazy as the rest of us and is more than happy to pass off work onto someone else. Whatever, they are human too! But passing audit and debt collection to private collection agencies is a scary prospect... take it from me, sometimes even the IRS gets things wrong and the idea of a private debt collector showing up on my doorstep is not a pleasant thought...

Anyway, the best part though is...

Dan Drummond, a spokesman for the Tax Fairness Coalition, a group representing collection agencies with IRS contracts, said that opponents hope senators will block the bill or fashion a compromise where the program remains in place with some portion of the revenue tax collectors generate diverted to hire new IRS employees.

THE TAX FAIRNESS COALITION??? Say what?