IRS is overwhelmed by identity theft fraud: Billions wrongly paid out as scammers find agency an easy target

The Boston Globe reports:

The ease with which criminals have stolen the identities of taxpayers and received refunds has raised searing questions about how the IRS handles the citizenry’s most sensitive private information. It highlights the agency’s failings at what seems to be a basic task: verifying that a return is filed by a living and legitimate taxpayer. That failure has cost the federal government — and thus real taxpayers — billions of dollars.

Do you think they are ready for ObamaCare??