80 - Right-Wing Heaven: Bush IRS Twists Rules To Let Corporations Get Away With Tax Evasion

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🗓️ 9 February 2007

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today we're going to discuss yet another way the Bush administration is continuing to push its radical right agenda even without control of Congress. In this case, it's the emasculate the government, cut taxes on the wealthy agenda. All accomplished through some until-now hidden workings of the Internal Revenue Service.I'll tell you up front that this isn't a page-1-headline-type story. But

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 80 of Blast the Right.
0:23.6	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com.
0:30.6	Today we're going to discuss yet another way the Bush Administration is continuing to push
0:35.6	its radical right agenda, even without control of Congress.
0:40.3	In this case, it's the Amasculate the Government cut taxes on the wealthy agenda, all accomplished
0:47.2	by them through some until now hidden workings of the Internal Revenue Service.
0:52.3	So let's get right into it.
0:54.3	I'll tell you upfront that this isn't a page 1 headline type story, but it's a very
1:00.1	useful story for understanding broadly used standard issue right wing tactics, and for
1:06.5	learning how to debunk and effectively counter right wing propaganda, all regarding issues
1:12.1	even substantively unrelated to tax collection.
1:16.5	My primary source is an article by David K. Johnston in the New York Times.
1:21.4	He does extraordinary reporting in the tax arena.
1:25.0	Besides this and another New York Times article, my sources are the Boston Globe, quote-world.org,
1:31.8	carpet-bagger-report.com, and the website of Senator Carl Levin.
1:37.8	Every year the IRS is supposed to audit a sampling of large corporations to determine whether
1:43.0	they're following the law and paying all the taxes they legitimately owe.
1:48.8	Corporations paying all the taxes they legitimately owe?
1:52.2	What kind of nonsense is that?
1:54.4	In a policy begun by the Bush administration in 2003, quote, top officials at the Internal
2:00.3	Revenue Service are pushing agents to prematurely close audits of big companies with agreements
2:06.1	to have them pay, only a fraction of the additional taxes that could be collected, close
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