The Bush/Cheney Administration has cut the IRS auditing capacity to the bone in spending cuts. There are dearly few wealthy persons or operations that get audited and when they do, such as when the GAO audits (click here) in regard to Halliburton and the reliability of 'the mission' in Iraq to any consistent and measurable outcome, the audits are completely disregarded and in the case of Halliburton completely dismissed as irrelivant to the interests of the nation.
Only 30 out of more than 180,000 Millionaires Faced Traditional IRS Audits Last YearAudit (click here)
Rates for Low Income Taxpayers Greater than for Top EarnersIRS Says Release of Statistics that Might Explain Aberration "Would Adversely Affect Tax Administration"
Syracuse, March 28 -- According to new data from the Internal Revenue Service only 30 of the nation's thousands of millionaires were subject to a face-to-face IRS audit in 2005. The very small number selected for the traditional and sometimes intensive audits were drawn from 184,054 individual tax returns reporting a total positive income of $1 million or more....
No administration is supposed to be using the assets of a nation to carry out political directives. The USA government's 'Homeland Defense' has turned into a political scam from nearly every aspect of its existance and when we have Generals resigning in fear of losing all their pension benefits after speaking out on behalf of ending the war this is some of the most hideous use of FBI time and it's against the law. The USA government infrastructure is NOT for use by political parties to degrade officals of the other party. Entrapment is a completely legitimate defense and I strongly suggest Eliot Spitzer pursue it.
Eliot is on the "Top Ten Most Wanted List" to be rid of in any government infrastructure. He has successfully prosecuted Bush cronies. I am 'flyin' tired of having a bunch of Neocons running this country and the government. If Eliot has trouble within his marriage than he needs to 'get it right' at home. I don't need a preacher defending my rights as a citizen, I need someone that can get the job done and it's become stupid to continue to allow the Republicans 'their righteous' venue of wiretaps and meaningless surveillence. GROW UP AMERICA, your country is waning into bankrupcy, your children are going into meaningless and illegal wars and this 'mess' regarding Eliot's marriage viability is an issue? Give me a break (click here)!
Spitzer: Eight ex-insurance executives indicted (click here)
Charges for bid-rigging that cost corporate customers millions of dollars
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday announced that a grand jury has indicted eight former insurance executives on felonies involving bid rigging that cost corporate customers millions of dollars.
The former executives — including seven from Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., the nation’s largest insurance broker — are accused of colluding with executives at major insurance companies to arrange noncompetitive bids. These bids then were given to Marsh & McLennan clients “under false pretenses,” according to Spitzer’s statement....
The audit was conducted on this sleezy little postitution operation because SPITZER was believed to be able to be discredited by its COOPERATION in obtaining the goal of dismantling Eliot's mantle. This is direct use of a federal agency for political purposes. The Democrats need to call into investigation the use of Homeland Security for political purposes and bring to the public even more reasons to impeach the Bush/Cheney Executive Branch.
FBI Watched Spitzer Before February Incident (click here)
By Keith B. Richburg, Susan Schmidt and Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, March 12, 2008; Page A01
NEW YORK, March 11 -- Weeks before a hotel meeting with a prostitute that threatens to derail his career, the FBI staked out New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer at the same hotel in an unsuccessful effort to catch him with a high-priced call girl, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.
The majority of the New York State legislators of the General Assembly are Democrats. They would be grossly stupid to initiate an impeachment process when the Governor may be found completely innocent of all charges and have done so over a marital issue alone. That would be setting a dangerous precedent for the state as well as the nation. It would grossly disaffect the party's standing in New York State and without 'due cause' for 'due process' there simply is no legitimate grounds for impeaching Eliot Spitzer.
The General Assembly of New York is caught up in a lot of public pressure because of the Bush/Cheney Neocon Climate of the nation. This 'in time' will pass, too. It would be a far better idea to allow this to 'play out' and bring to light the reason for such scandals rather than seek to 'play to the crowd' allowing this 'political venue' of 'riding the Religious Righteousness' for political gain.
The nation has rid itself of the likes of self-righteous, right wing Rick Santorium (What a nightmare he was.) and it will rid itself of the rest of them, but, it takes a couple of elections. The USA needs a chance to recover its government and as long as this type of illegal use of federal agencies continues, every marital discord will result in losing some of the most vicious defenders of our Constitutions at the local, state and federal level. Either the USA wants government that works for them or they want alter boys that sing to the tune of 'Onward Christian Soldiers' while robbing them blind. The Spitzers need to work toward resolving their marriage issues and quite frankly that is none of my business or concern !
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