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The Great Corporate Tax Heist

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tax Cuts, Mccain, Conservatives, Corporate Taxes, Taxes, Corporate Tax Cuts, Mccain Corporate Taxes, Gao, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

Remember the old Steve Martin routine on how to make a million dollars and not pay taxes: "First, make a million dollars... Second, don't pay taxes." Turns out Martin's joke is standard operating procedure for corporations in the US.

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Representation Without Taxation: Study Says Most Corporations Avoid US Income Tax

AP | JENNIFER C. KERR | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Corporate Responsibility, Carl Levin, Gao, Government Accountability Office, Income Tax, Tax Evasion, Corporate Greed, Business News

WASHINGTON — Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress. The s...

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GAO Report Details Need to Address Domestic Worker Abuse

Caroline Fredrickson | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gao, Women's Rights, Immigrants Rights, Domestic Workers, Aclu, Human Trafficking, Politics News
Caroline Fredrickson

Yesterday, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its report [PDF] on government efforts to address the abuse of domestic workers by...

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Workers Deserve a Rescue Too

Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Workers, Workers Rights, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Gao, Business News
Robyn Blumner

There always seems to be plenty of money and will to rescue financial giants, but when the working stiffs of America need help to get paid, our government doesn't have enough resources to help.

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Deregulation Defrauds Americans

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Fair Labor Standards Act, Gregory D. Kutz, U.S. Labor Department, Ronald Reagan, Economy, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, United Steelworkers, Freddie Mac, Bush Administration, Washington Post Columnist E. J. Dionne Jr., Ben S. Bernanke, U.S. Congress, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Gao, Bear Stearns, U.S. Rep. George Miller, Indymac Bancorp, Government Accountability Office, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

For decades, conservatives have vilified the word regulation. This has brought us corporate slavery approved by the U.S. government and panic lines of depositors outside banks.

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Seth Colter Walls

Iraq Reports Agree On One Issue McCain Ignores: Political Progress Is Lacking

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Department of Defense, Iraq, Gao, General Petraeus, Politics News

As the Washington Post reported Tuesday, there are several stark differences between the two latest high-profile government assessments of Iraq. While...

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From Staffer to Contractor: Stopping the Pentagon's Revolving Door

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Government Spending, Pentagon, Bernie Sanders, Senate, Gao, Government Accountability Office, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

The need for more aggressive scrutiny is abundantly clear. GAO has identified $295 billion in cost overruns -- the Pentagon can't balance its books or keep track of its vast inventory.

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Auditors Echo Call For U.S. Air Force To Re-Test Boeing, Northrupp Grumann Tankers

Reuters | Jim Wolf | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Boeing Air Tanker, Government Accountability Office Air Force Tanker, Boeing, Gao, Northrop Grumann, Air Force Tanker, Boeing Tanker Test, GAO Tanker, USAF, Boeing Tanker, Boeing Tanker Deal, US Air Force, Business News

U.S. auditors urged the Air Force Wednesday to rerun its marathon, $35 billion competition for refueling aircraft, upholding a protest by losing bidde...

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White House undermines EPA on cancer risks, GAO says

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cancer Risks, White House, Gao, Government Accountability Office, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Gao Report White House Cancer Risks, Gao Report Cancer Risks, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals...

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Daily Show on GAO Critique of Bush Anti-Terror War: "We Could Have Gotten Here By Doing Nothing."

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Terrorism, Pakistan, Gao, Global War on Terror, Afghanistan, Gwot, Edward George, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Daily Show host Jon Stewart and Comedy Central Senior Military Analyst Rob Riggle had a mention-worthy chat last night about an important new Govern...

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Secret Military Gear Found For Sale On eBay, Craigslist

Information Week | Thomas Clayburn | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

Read More: F-14s, Night-Vision Goggles, Body Armor, Military Gear Craigslist, Gao, Military Gear eBay, Ebay, Craigslist, Government Accountability Office, Body Armor Vests, Business News

Sensitive military items are being offered for sale through eBay and Craigslist, the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued Thursday...

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Gov Credit Cards Used To Pay For Lingerie, iPods, $13K Dinner

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Gao, Credit Care Misuse, Government Credit Cards, Purchase Card Abuse, Purchase Card, Credit Card Abuse, Government Accountability Office, Business News

The Washington Post reports: Federal employees used government credit cards to pay for lingerie, gambling, iPods, Internet dating services, and a $1...

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A Potential Vice-Presidential Candidate Struggles with Legislative Dealmaking

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Zoellick, Representative Nita Lowey, Senate Finance Committee, World Bank, Senator Menendez, Senator Patrick Leahy, Senate Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Immunity, Authorization Committees, Budget of President Bush, Senator Evan Bayh, Senator Barack Obama, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Senate Banking Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, Gao, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Specter, Appropriations Subcommittees, House Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Indiana, Presidential Primary, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

Senator Evan Bayh is on the short-list of vice-presidential candidates for both Obama and Clinton -- so his effectiveness as the potential president of the Senate is a matter of some importance.

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Government Auditors Issue Scathing Review Of Pentagon's Weapons Budget

Washington Post | Dana Hedgpeth | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Pentagon Weapons Systems, Gao, Government Accountability Office, Government Auditors, Pentagons Cost Overruns, Pentagon Budget, Politics News

Government auditors issued a scathing review yesterday of dozens of the Pentagon's biggest weapons systems, saying ships, aircraft and satellites are ...

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The Real Straight-Talk Express

William Fisher | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Genereal Accounting Office, Comptroller, Bush Administration, Gao, David Walker, Politics News
William Fisher

In a government of incompetents, spinners, cronies, political hacks, wiretappers and torturers, David Walker's GAO has been one of the very few bright lights in town.

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GAO Questions Bush Administration's Iraq "Benchmark" Report

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administraion, Warwire, Gao, Iraq, Iraq Budget, Iraq Government, Iraq Benchmark Report, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

The Bush administration, in its last so-called Iraq "benchmark" report, used questionable financial data to assert that the Baghdad government was mak...

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Dear Media, We Have Lost a Billion in Equipment Before

Dina Rasor | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media

Read More: Gao, Iraq Fraud, Iraq Waste, Iraq Contractor, Media, DOD Inspector General, Investigative Reporting, Media News
Dina Rasor

People are angry now and politicians are reacting to these stories with promises of reform. But where was the outrage at the beginning of the war?

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Fed Employees Spent At Least $146M On First-Class Airline Travel In One Year

Associated Press | HOPE YEN | Posted 10.02.2007 | Home

Read More: Gao, Federal Employees, Home News

Federal employees wasted at least $146 million over a one-year period on business- and first-class airline tickets, in some cases simply because they ...

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GAO Report: Walter Reed Problems Have Not Been Fixed

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Wounded Veterans, Congress, Annette McLeod, Traumatic Brain Injury, Gao, Iraq, President Bush, Walter Reed, Iraq Veterans, Tbi, Ptsd, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

More than seven months have passed since the major problems were revealed by the Washington Post -- and after seven months, our veterans continue to wait.

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A New Truman Commission: The Time is Now but Will the Senate Have the Guts to Do It?

Dina Rasor | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Reconstruction, KBR, Contractors, Truman Commission, Commission on Wartime Contracting, Gao, Spending Two Billion Dollars a Week, Truman Committee, Iraq Contractors, DOD, Troops Not Getting the Equipment That They Need, Politics News
Dina Rasor

It will take the Congress to establish a commission to start peel back the layers of fraud, fat and waste in this war and find out why the troops are still not getting what they need.

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Denying the Truth: Petraeus, Iraq, and Our Pontius Pilate Press

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Petraeus Report, Iraq, Gao, General Petraeus, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility, too many in the Washington press corps want to pretend they are leaving the question of "what is truth" to their readers -- refusing to admit that there is even such a thing as truth.

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The Lives That Begin and End at Age 21

Alex Cornell du Houx | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War Veteran, College Student, Gao, Sectarian Divisions, Soldiers in Iraq, Iraq Casualties, No End in Sight, Fallujah, Politics News
Alex Cornell du Houx

It is part of my duty as an American soldier to learn how our policies reflect on the ground, and whether we are making headway. It was my experiences in Iraq that guided me to where I stand on the war today.

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Partial Progress Towards Progress Towards Progress

Jon Soltz | Posted 09.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Benchmarks, Iraq Surge, Votevets, Gao, Politics News
Jon Soltz

The GAO report is a strong and sobering look at Iraq, and far more truthful than what the White House has been shoveling to the American people. But, I have to question what this "partial" grade is.

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