A former lawyer for the IRS’s Ethics Office has been disbarred for ethics violations.  The institutional rot at the most-feared agency of the federal government, one with extensive arbitrary power, should be an election issue if the GOP nominee has the wit to make it so. Let the Democrat nominee defend keeping the byzantine tax code and the bureaucracy that is currently failing to answer a majority of calls to its help line. This is a winning issue, and the start of revitalizing the economy and bringing DC bureaucrats to heel. The Washington Times reports (hat tip: TaxProfBlog and Instapundit) A lawyer who worked in the IRS ethics office was disbarred Thursday by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which concluded she misappropriated a client’s funds from a case she handled in private practice, broke a number of ethics rules and showed “reckless disregard for the truth” in misleading a disbarment panel looking into the...(Read Full Post)