Friday, March 20, 2009

Perhaps, If We Asked Them Very Humbly


(pic via reddit )
Our Fiscal Wizard Overlords...

Would deign to use a small portion of their astronomical salaries and bonuses...


To pay their fucking back taxes...
TARP Corps. Owe More Than $220M in Back Taxes
Rep. Lewis Calls Delinquent Taxes 'Shameful'

By MATT JAFFE

March 19, 2009—

At least 13 companies who have received some of the $300 billion in TARP funds owe hundreds of millions of dollars in back taxes, it was revealed today.

Two of the companies owe more than $100 million in taxes, said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight.

Altogether, the 13 companies owed the government more than $220 million in unpaid taxes, he said.

"This is shameful. It is a disgrace," Lewis said at the beginning of a hearing into how the TARP money is being spent.

Lewis' committee discovered the unpaid taxes in a review of tax records from 23 of the firms receiving the most money, Lewis said.

"If we looked at all 470 recipients, how much would they owe?" Lewis asked.

He didn't identify the companies or indicate how much TARP money they have received. But some of the corporations that have received the largest chunks of TARP cash include AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, General Motors and Chrysler.
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...to help foot a tiny fraction of the cost to rebuild the global economy their wizardry destroyed.

3 comments:

darkblack said...

Or we can just put them in a tumbrel and see how skilled they are at making a repast from the garbage that the seething crowd pitches in their direction.

;>)

Anonymous said...

Oh, come on.

AIG is actually suing, using taxpayer monies of course, the IRS for around 300 mil because it doesn't want to pay what owes.

The stones on these shitweasels are just amazing. They are entirely one-dimensional. I suppose that could be useful if they were harnessed and used as tools. To let such bizarrely short-sighted and single-track entities actually run shit, however, really is tantamount to giving the five-year-olds the keys to both the liquor cabinet and the gun locker, and then dead-bolting them in the house.

Fuck.

J Neo Marvin said...

The smoke looks like a six-legged pig.