Fact is neither the Congress or the President deserve the lions share of the credit for those Short lived Balanaced Budget. They were Mainly the result of surging Tax Revenues Generated by the Internet Tech Bubble.
As for my truck driving. What business is it of yours how much I made? Is income some sort of qualification to Debate in your mind?
Suffice to say I covered 48 states in 4 weeks, about 13000 miles at 41 cents a mile, plus bonuses. You do the math.
I am sorry I was unable to keep in touch, but my laptop was on the fritz. Next time I go out, I plan on having one, so I can keep your lies in check even while on the road.
Who deserves credit for the economy crashing? HOw about the GOP denied the economy was crashing for as long as they possibly could. So rather than working with democrats to actually solve the solution, they were denying there was even a problem.
And sorry dude, but sending manufacturing oveseas, to canada, india, china, europe and mexico is on the GOP aganda. NAFTA, remember? Don't give Clinton credit. He just signed it. So where are all the jobs? Ask the GOP. And that's why the economy sucks.
Or Iraq. Or the tax breaks to the rich? No wonder we can't pay our bills. How about this one Charles?
This is why the Republicans should not be trusted with power:
Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street giants helped foreign investors dodge billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on stock dividends while the IRS looked the other way, a Senate investigation found.
The firms worked with shell hedge funds that had little more than offshore mailing addresses in the Cayman Islands and elsewhere. The funds arranged complex equity swaps and stock loans aimed at circumventing U.S. tax laws, a staff report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said.
The IRS has neither enforced existing rules prohibiting the transactions nor tried to draft new standards, the 77-page report said.
“These are gimmicks peddled by American financial institutions to deny Uncle Sam taxes owed under our law,” Senator Carl Levin, who heads the panel, told reporters. “The IRS has pussyfooted on this.”
Morgan Stanley enabled foreign clients to avoid payment of more than $300 million in U.S. dividend taxes from 2000 to 2007. (THE SAME TIME THE REPUBLICANS RAN ALL THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT)
Lehman estimated its customerÂ’s eluded payment of as much $115 million in 2004 alone.
UBS helped clients escape payment of $62 million from 2004 to 2007.
I've been saving this for you Charles. I told you all that the GOP passed laws that allowed offshore companies to avoid paying taxes. Now the proof has come out. So here is nearly $500 billion dollars in lost tax revenues. Who's gotta pick up the slack for that? YOU DO. Or they'll just throw it on the debt.
