. >> i would further request that colin kelly's statement prepared for this hearing also be entered into the record in full. >> without objection, so ordered. >> i thank the chair. plaintiff george you talked about i think you said a $450 billion tax gap. >> gross, yes. >> that's this year? >> as of 2006. >> 2006. and it's growing? >> yes, it is. and i believe it's a low balled figure and again, part of the earlier discussion indicated that it's an ongoing review. so and it doesn't include aspects such as the international tax gap. >> understood. do you think there could be some relationship between that growing gap and the fact that we've had a 20% reduction since 1995 in revenue offices and revenue agents? >> there's no question if the irs had additional resources they would be able to collect additional tax receipts. >> i'd point out to my colleagues just for the sake of argument, $450 billion in money owed the government we're not collecting. that's what the tax gap is? correct? >> roughly i mean. >> times ten is $4.5 trillion. now, here we are sweat can we go big at 4 trillion -- sw

surrendered frequently but since we needed a hero at this time, a hero came around and the person colin kelly who was the pilot of a b-17 fortress that was shot down in the philippine waters just left the coast the story had it that he was shot down after he had bombed and had sunk in the japanese battleship. it turned out that he hadn't bombed anything but his plane was shot down when he tried to parachute out it got caught in the wreckage as it was coming down and he went down with the wreckage and was killed. he had a small son and president roosevelt called the widow and the sun to the white house and he had announced he would be given a mission to west point as soon as he was able to attend. and of course the wife got a medal. it turned out that when the war ended, the battleship was found in the harbor in japan that had never been sunk. as of this is what happens in the wartime propaganda. you learn a lot that we have to unlearn later on. and the newspapers were full of misinformation because it was important that we not be despondent about what was going on at the time. things were bad

surrendered frequently but since we needed a hero at this time, a hero came around and the person colin kelly who was the pilot of a b-17 fortress that was shot down in the philippine waters just left the coast the story had it that he was shot down after he had bombed and had sunk in the japanese battleship. it turned out that he hadn't bombed anything but his plane was shot down when he tried to parachute out it got caught in the wreckage as it was coming down and he went down with the wreckage and was killed. he had a small son and president roosevelt called the widow and the sun to the white house and he had announced he would be given a mission to west point as soon as he was able to attend. and of course the wife got a medal. it turned out that when the war ended, the battleship was found in the harbor in japan that had never been sunk. as of this is what happens in the wartime propaganda. you learn a lot that we have to unlearn later on. and the newspapers were full of misinformation because it was important that we not be despondent about what was going on at the time. things were bad