Tomorrow, the House Ways and Means Committee will consider a new "good government" bill to end the IRS private debt collection program. Check out the bill here. It includes virtually the same language as HR 695- Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen's (D-MD) bill to end the program. It also includes six other measures that tweak tax laws. Previous efforts to end the program have been caught up in procedural issues. At first blush, this new bill seems get around those problems- it has proper jurisdiction and probably wouldn't violate PAYGO. And the bill shows that Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Charlie Rangel was serious when he said he didn't want any new contracts issued to private debt collectors. Kudos to Chairman Rangel for sticking to his guns! This may be the beginning of the program's end. Good riddance. It's wasteful and puts taxpayers at risk for no good reason. But in a larger sense, it's the poster child for what's wrong conservative ideology and politics- an overabundance of faith in the market, unwarranted distrust of government, and a penchant for putting corporate interests over the public interest.