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Never mind. My time is better spent re-reading the elder Podhoretz’s Claremont interview where he puts to shame everything John and his friends ever say here.
John complained, and rightly so, that it would be very disturbing to live in a world where Congress asserted the right to examine any citizen’s tax returns. The problem is that we already live in that world: there is a law explicitly giving Congress this authority! It’s 26 U.S. Code § 6103(f)(1).
The law does require that Congress view the tax return only in closed session, but that’s a very small consolation for what amounts to a severe invasion of privacy.
(I’m pretty sure this is the right episode in which John brought this up – thanks to Pesach, I accumulated and listened to several episodes in quick succession.)