WP: Thousands of Non-Defense Contractors Owe Taxes (3 Billion +)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/15/AR2005061502511_pf.html

Thousands of federal contractors working for civilian government agencies together owe more than $3 billion in unpaid taxes, according to a report to be released today by a Senate subcommittee.

In one case, the owner of a firm that provides security guards to the Department of Homeland Security transferred payroll taxes withheld from workers' paychecks to a foreign bank account instead of the government and used the money to build a house overseas.

The owner of another company, one that supplies health care services to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Health and Human Services, piled up more than $18 million in unpaid payroll taxes while buying multimillion-dollar properties and luxury vehicles.

And one contractor that furnishes temporary workers to the Department of Housing and Urban Development has owed back taxes for nearly two decades, simply closing businesses and starting new ones when the bills get too high.

[TahitiNut]

1. Only the little people pay taxes.

Friends of Dickie & Donnie sure don't.

[Carolab]

2. That's it. I'm done paying mine. THIS JUST PLAIN SUCKS.

I am SICK AND TIRED of being RIPPED OFF.

[leesa]

3. And I'm sure ALL of the "defense" contractors owe taxes.

[slay]

4. I wonder what it's going to take to make your average Joe realize

that he's been screwed! Just look at what the rich and the corporate elite get away with while you and I basically live paycheck to paycheck just to pay the bills. I guess we all should have been talking shit about gay people to stir up the idiots, rip the idiots off, and still have them thank us - for not allowing gay marriage. Unreal. :(

[RamboLiberal]

5. The koolaid drinkers are so brainwashed

I hear them all the time talking about how the corporations shouldn't have to pay any taxes on talk radio. Sometimes I do think this country needs a damn Great Depression again to wake up these fools! And I'm afraid that train is coming down the track.

[Joebert]

6. If we're going to make an example of somebody, those are the ones to get.

If you consciously defraud the United States Government, you go to jail. Forever.

Every single asset, in every country it sits, should be seized.

I know this will never happen, how do you get big Republican donors? Let them get away with these things.

Democrats are excited about the $25.00 donations, and should be with good reason.

But it's awfully hard to compete with millionaires who have no choice but to put up millions in support to maintain their tens of millions in illegal income.

[wakeme2008]

7. this asshole took money out of HIS employees paycheck

"In one case, the owner of a firm that provides security guards to the Department of Homeland Security transferred payroll taxes withheld from workers' paychecks to a foreign bank account instead of the government and used the money to build a house overseas.
"

And thought it was his own piggy bank.... F_cking Ahole...