HMM: Why Cutting IRS Funding Is Not Conservative. “However, defunding and weakening the IRS is not conservative. To the contrary, it will ultimately drive up deficits and raise middle-class taxes.”

That’s first-order thinking. Second order thinking notes that the IRS has been politicized and lawbreaking for over a decade, and that agencies care about their budgets.

Of course, third-order thinking would cut the budgets in ways that specifically cause pain to agency administrators.