The Internal Revenue Service building in Ogden, Utah was partially evacuated Monday after a suspicious substance was found. Investigators later determined the substance was not hazardous, but it raised alarms about the safety of IRS employees. Government figures show the number of threats against IRS employees have increased by over 21 percent since 2008. Two weeks ago, a Texas man crashed his private plane into the IRS office in Austin, Texas, killing himself and one IRS employee. Many critics of the IRS refused to denounce the suicide attack. In an interview, Republican Congressman Steve King expressed empathy with the suicide pilot Joe Stack.

Reporter: “The pilot who flew himself into an IRS building, do you think his attack, his terrorist attack, was motivated at all by a lot of the anti-tax rhetoric that’s popular in America right now?”

Rep. Steve King: “I think if we had abolished the IRS back when I first advocated it, he wouldn’t have had a target for his airplane. It’s sad that the incident happened down in Texas, but, by the same token, the IRS is an agency that’s unnecessary, and when the day comes that that is over and we have abolished the IRS, it will be a happy day for all Americans.”