Alan Fram, Associated Press
Congress and President Barack Obama want to scrap a law aimed at pressuring scofflaw government contractors to pay their back taxes, but it's not because the problem has gone away.
On the contrary, government investigators in the past few months have reported that thousands of federal contractors owe hundreds of millions of dollars in overdue taxes, including some who are working for the Internal Revenue Service itself.
The move to repeal the law shows lawmakers' eagerness to show they are trying to protect jobs — and a national mood of getting government off people's backs. It also underscores the potency of a lobbying campaign to sink the statute by foes ranging from the aerospace industry to female construction company owners.
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