Dorothy Philbin | CNBNews Contributor

There were recent articles in newspapers claiming that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targets the poor for auditing far more often than the rich.  Is it true?  After what we’ve been through with the federal government over the past few years, I think anyone would say “yes.”

I’m sure most people have heard that the vast majority of auto accidents happen within five miles of home.  That is true, also.  These statistics, though true, come from a philosophy called “how to lie by statistics.”  I am in no way defending the Internal Revenue Service or the federal government as a whole.  My goal is only to explain the lying by statistics.

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