Gcc initiative or restarting the National Dialogue conference that collapsed in early 2014 without addressing the underlying issues. The houthi were reluctant participants in the National Dialogue in yemen but it was clear that they had no interest in ceding power over to a centralized government. As a result they withdrew from the National Dialogue, it collapsed, and the houthi took control over sanaa and now other areas. So why would the administration think that the circumstances have changed that would allow for a rekonconciliation to occur . It is naive and dangerous to think a political situation is achievable as long as the houthi are unwilling to cede their power and as long as iran continues its support for these fighters just like it is naive and dangerous to believe that a political solution in syria is achievable as long as assad remains in power. Even more absurd is the fact that iran just this morning has allegedly proposed a peace plan for yemen. This is the same iran th
Work. That leaves us with enforcement Taxpayer Services and i. Tchl. So when you take a cut, weve done the best we can to try to balance that. And our appripriations come in those buktds, so to come extent, were constrained by where the proepuaters put the funding. We have probably 3,000 fewer people answering phone calls right now than we used to have to go along with the 5,000 fewer enforcement people and the 5,000 we put into Identity Theft, so were making a balances decision to try to figure out how do i minimize the negative impact of the cuts im going to take. Depending on how you measure it every revenue officer, criminal investigateor produces somewhere between 100,000 a year each. So we know when we ineffect leave money on the table, you can talk to any agent and theyll tell you we know its not a question of guessing. When we look at returns we start with the returns that have the biggest problems and so, were leaving on the table, tax cuts for tax cheats, there are people who
These villages. So if you have a small hall tank in your home, you can truck water to the home and fill the tank, and you can have faucets and you can have a shower and you can have some water in the home in that respect. But as it turns out, that model doesnt deliver a lot of water into the home. And so what weve learned is that homes that have honey buckets that have basically no system other than a central Watering Point where you go fill up buckets, they deliver about 1. 5 gallons of water per person per day. If you have a small hall system, they deliver about 2. 5 gallons of water per person per day. Now, the w. H. O. Recommends a minimum of 13 to 15 gallons per person per day of water. If you look at what the use is in the United States in general, we generally use about 50 gallons per person per day. So our villages in alaska are doing extreme, extreme water rationing, and we know that this isnt just true for alaska. There are other areas in the arctic, some of our other neighbo
Been. Could not be easily persuaded to reform themselves when being told to do so by the greatest rent seekers who thought that reforms were never for them. Unsurprisingly as a result of this practice debts, both private and public, skyrocketed. Banks seized to function as credit providing institutions. Investment dried up. And all we have had over the last few years was a slowing down of the rate of our economy as all the fat went, then the plus muscle, then we were proceeding to the bones of our economy. Its often said that 2014 marked a recovery of short. Very mild, very fragile recovery, but a recovery. I beg to differ on this. What happened in 2014 was nominal gdp, gdp in market prices continued to fall. But as market prices on average were falling even faster. Thats not my definition or anybodys definition of recovery. Its the definition of what happens when you go through recession to depression. But thats all past history. Were now negotiating a very simple principle. On the on
About simplification and complexity. So those are three issues, therefore. The base, the rate and complexity simplification. On the off chance that theres an impressionable staffer from the ways and Means Committee here, what might the four of you, and i really would like to get all four of you opinion on this like him or her, staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say, chief this is what we might accomplish in this congress. Ill start with that one. Well go left to right. First thing is forget what can be accomplished. Lets do that second. First thing to take back is the lesson that only people pay taxes. Corporations are fctional entities. Second then, the ideal rate, and i use the word rate, is zero. Thats the ideal rate. What do you take back to this congress . I think what you can get done is the narrative were not competitive wither trading partners and that to be competitive we should be at or equal to. The rate should be no higher than 25 . And that is still higher t