Half-Cocked: Let me try

January 17, 2005

Let me try

Late income tax collections have now been farmed out to scummy collection agencies according to the Moscow Times. And how dumb is it that we have to go to an English language Russian newspaper to find out?

Thus it was no surprise when Bush trotted out another weapon from the oppressor's hoard last month: tax-farming, the practice of turning over government revenue collection to private profiteers. Yes, that scourge of honest yeomen from time immemorial will soon be stalking the streets of 21st-century America, shaking down the populace for personal gain.

Bush has largely excused the rich and powerful from the onerous burden of lightening their wads a tiny bit for the public weal -- with a resulting plunge in Treasury receipts. Yet he still needs mucho boodle to pay for his wars, and for the corporate welfare he doles out by the barge-load to his friends and family. Not to mention the billions in public funds he's passing to his favorite religious sects -- including the sex-crazed, anti-American cultist Sun Myung Moon, whose front groups have been set loose in the nation's schools to teach "sexual abstinence," Salon.com reports.

How about letting private citizens audit the tax returns of corporations?

Posted by Half-Cocked at January 17, 2005 05:33 PM