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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Fri Apr 20, 2007 at 09:53:07 AM MST
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- AmTrak. The study for a southern line through Montana -- Missoula->Helena->Bozeman->Billings -- is off the table, apparently. I thought the train was a pretty cool idea. Most people I talked to really liked it as well. People travel less in Montana in the winter because of the conditions -- trains could get people around to see their families.
- The Tax Gap. One in six tax dollars owed isn't being ponied up. Meanwhile, the IRS is increasing enforcement among the middle-class, but laying off auditors who focus on the super-wealthy. Max Baucus laid into the Administration over it. The Administration's response? Exactly what you'd expect. They don't have the balls to say that they think it is good public policy to give the super-rich whatever they want, so they hem and haw and say an 85% compliance rate is good. As Jay writes, if that's good enough, maybe the rest of us will start complying with 85% of our taxes, too.
- Gonzales Contradicts Mercer. AG Gonzales' testimony shed some light on Bill Mercer's involvement in Purgegate and on Mercer's recent closed door testimony. Mercer is apparently one of three Justice officials who said that Gonzales was involved in discussions related to the purge. Both Sens. Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) laid into the Attorney General. The question is quickly becoming When, not Whether, this guy will resign.
- Another Republican Congressman's Business Raided by FBI. This is becoming so standard I'm not even really sure what to write.
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