well it s corporate tax rates. we have corporations paying more taxes then anyone else on the face of the earth. really? after all the write offs and after they park billions of dollars off shore the tax rate is about 17%. go look at mitt romney s return. and then of course keystone at a time we re trying to do something about climate change, we will have two year of denial with them owning the house and senate keystone probably going to get through, and we will probably bring in more oil to the market which will bring more economic instability among other countries, that s the wrong move not to mention what it will do to the environment. and they want to deregulate wall street. dodd frank is the big problem with all of this. is it fair to point out that the republicans sound byte after sound byte issue after issue on the economy, my lord, they haven t been right on anything.
case, we have a depression on our hands. here s where the right is wrong and jon stewart is right. some conservatives anecdotes make them sound like anneckdolts. they re not consistent on spending. bad when it s handouts for the poor, some of whom aren t that poor, gut when it s handouts for corporations, some of which aren t so needy. consistency counts, clarity counts. when republicans say they re alarmed by the spending, they better be alarmed by all the spending, including spending their typically defend, like tax credits for oil companies who don t need it, or billions in write-offs for people who don t deserve it. that s fair, that balances. that s not red or blue. that s green, just money. that shows the world you re serious in going after even the stir yo stuff your party calls sacred and demanding the other party do the same thing. so republicans, if you say you can t find some waste in a half trillion dollar defense budget, you ain t looking too hard. and democrats, if you s
first, we want you to like us and constantly express your unending gratitude. good job. we like you. you re welcome, nation. second, we just want the free market to be allowed to work. well, to work in our favor, that is. i know there s been some confusion about this. corporate subsidies, tax write-offs, that s part of insent vising us to do our thing in the free market. allowing people to unionize, that s a socialist front to our free market system. why am i talking to you anyway? i should do what we normally do and talk straight to the politicians. they are much more understanding of how things are supposed to
general to please communicate that we need your sense of what is the best guidance so we don t have this proliferation of organizations that are abusing of the nonprofit status at taxpayer expense because they get these write offs so we won t run into this situation again. i yield back the balance of my time. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. miller i have like about 15 minutes to question you but i only have five. i m disappointed. i m hearing i don t know. i don t remember. i don t recall. i don t believe. you don t know who investigated the case but yet you say it was investigated. but you don t know who investigated. i am puzzled by that. you are not instilling a lot of confidence in this panning and the people across this country. i want to go back to your
to the u.s. meanwhile it is tax day. if you want to avoid an audit pay attention because where you live counts. alison kosik here with that. zip code matters. people actually, what? cheat on their taxes? oh, my goodness. here s what s interesting. it turns out that there are people in certain states that are more likely to cheat on their taxes so the irs is on to that and they re more likely to pay close attention to those places. drumroll, please. according to the associated press. here are those cities, you see them there, san francisco, l.a., houston, atlanta, washington, d.c. a national taxpayer advocate study, what it did was it focused on small business owners because they got more opportunity to cheat on their taxes. shame. shame, shame, shame. because they got a lot of write-offs. you may not report all of their earnings. a common theme with some of these cities, though, they have high incomes. and irs data show as a business s incomes go up, so do its chances of being