Steve King: Secret income is ‘part of freedom’

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Wednesday told a tea party rally that the Internal Revenue Service should be abolished because keeping income secret from the federal government was “part of freedom.”

“You know, the IRS audited me one too many years in a row,” King explained at a Tea Party Patriots rally in Washington D.C. “And I wondered, ‘Why are they in my kitchen, why are they looking through my books, why are they asking me these Monday morning quarterback questions?’ And I went back out and climbed back into the seat of my old bulldozer and the smoke went out the exhaust stack and my ears. And I thought, ‘I’d like to get rid of the IRS.’”

“I don’t need them poking through my books, I don’t need them telling my pastor or my priest what he’s going to be able to preach from the pulpit,” he continued. “In fact, it’s not even the government’s business how much money you make. That’s a part of freedom.”