STEVE MOORE: The IRS went after honest landowners. It's time to end this tax nightmare

The IRS recently did something federal agencies almost never do: admit their approach wasn’t working.

They conceded that the approach to the Conservation Easement program tax assessments is flawed and often unfair.

In a press release last month, the IRS rightly stopped its assault — at least for now — on more than a thousand separate groups nationwide, comprised of about 250,000 individuals, who have participated in land conservation easements. The agency decided to withdraw its own...