Treasury to use data on racial, ethnic disparities to shape tax laws under 'equity' plan

A new Treasury Department racial "equity" plan reveals the department's intention to obtain and analyze data reflecting the disparate impact of the tax code on "different race and ethnic groups" to help design and implement tax laws on the basis of race, warns a former Trump administration Justice Department official.

"The IRS has always been colorblind, for good reason," former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs Katie Sullivan told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Monday's episode. "We see what happens when they start to operate in a more biased fashion, like they did against conservatives in 2013."

Sullivan was referring to the Lois Lerner scandal, when the IRS targeted conservative nonprofits for intrusive scrutiny.