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Article #620076Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:03
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:03
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2002, congress lets the fiscal responsibility act lapse (spending can't exceed tax revenue, totally different republican congress than the republican congress that originally passed the act). 2010 CBO report that 2003-2009, tax revenue cut by $6T (first time taxes cut to not pay for two wars) and spending increased by $6T for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsible budget. Since then taxes not restored and only modest spending reductions so deficit continued to increase ... now over $20T (and prediction that it increases another trillion over coming fiscal year). fiscal responsibility act posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax haven pots http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion CBO 2010 report also that of the big DOD spending increase 2003-2009, they couldn't find anything to show for over trillion. note for 20+yrs all gov. agencies have been mandated to pass financial audit ... DOD has yet to pass financial audit. Exclusive: Massive Pentagon agency lost track of hundreds of millions of dollars https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/05/pentagon-logistics-agency-review-funds-322860 however, above just mentions hundreds of millions ... not the trillions.
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