The State of America...

[Tropical Wilds]

But unlike Germany, in the U.S. it failed, and the bad guys are going to prison for it.

Here’s hoping and God willing.

 

[iarwain]

Keep in mind, that Biden also added 87 new posts in the IRS to keep an eyeon us.

87,000 actually.

 

[The Barbarian]

87,000 actually.

Yep. And here's the rest of the story...

The No-Change Rate Anomaly

From 2010 through 2021, the IRS’s budget for tax enforcement—the largest of the IRS’s appropriations accounts—fell by 25 percent, after accounting for inflation.

The conventional wisdom is that when the IRS has less money for enforcement, it goes after the lowest-hanging fruit—the audits that yield a relatively high ROI. But that’s not what the data suggest: Across the board, the no-change rate for large corporations rose from 28 percent in 2010.

The result:

...
To outside tax experts, the reason for the high rate of no-change audits is obvious. Sharon Katz-Pearlman, Global Head of Tax Dispute Resolution and Controversy at KMPG; University of North Carolina professor Jeff Hoopes; and University of Georgia professor Erin Towery agreed that the IRS, with its constrained budget and reductions in staff, can’t compete with the big accounting firms and the high-priced law firms that bring sophisticated models and highly-paid tax professionals to the battle.

The result? Firms successfully characterize very aggressive positions as legal tax avoidance and avoid the IRS’s initial charges of illegal tax evasion.
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Amazingly, lawmakers appear ready to boost funding for the perennially unpopular IRS. Just this month, the Biden Administration proposed increasing the IRS’s enforcement budget by $900 million over three years, largely for oversight of the wealthy and corporations.
Too Many IRS Audits of Big Businesses Result In No Change In Tax Liability

Result will be more corporate tax cheats will be caught, and the IRS will spend relatively less time on individuals of normal means.

 

[Postvieww]

We are a nation of laws snd no one is above the law.

Does that include Hillary, Hunter, Joe, and Comey? Just wondering.

 

[The Barbarian]

Does that include Hillary, Hunter, Joe, and Comey? Just wondering.

It does. If they had stolen classified material and then lied to the authorities about it, they'd be in trouble, too.

It's not like Russia. There has to be a real crime involved.

 

[Postvieww]

It does. If they had stolen classified material and then lied to the authorities about it, they'd be in trouble, too.

It's not like Russia. There has to be a real crime involved.

So "stealing" classified material is the only "crime" politicians are to be investigated for? We do have the lap top, largely ignored by the left but it is out there.

 

[The Barbarian]

So "stealing" classified material is the only "crime" politicians are to be investigated for?

There has to be some crime. Laws are funny that way.

We do have the lap top, largely ignored by the left but it is out there.

Really, what crime is the laptop? Tell us about it.

 

[Sparagmos]

Does that include Hillary, Hunter, Joe, and Comey? Just wondering.

Of course. Why do you need to ask? I said "NO ONE."

 

[The Barbarian]

I guess we aren't going to hear about the crime they found on the laptop. Darn, I thought we might finally get an answer on that.

 

[Postvieww]

I guess we aren't going to hear about the crime they found on the laptop. Darn, I thought we might finally get an answer on that.

Influence peddling with foreign governments involving the current resident in the White House the "Big Man" confirmed by a business partner of Hunter's. Interesting how early reports from the left tried to pass this off as Russian disinformation. Amazing how the laptop fell into oblivion at the completely trust worthy, bastion of truth and justice the FBI.

I am sure others can be found but this one should do.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Does that include Hillary, Hunter, Joe, and Comey? Just wondering.

There is a double standard in the media and from the left.
See the link on Hillary


Hillary Clinton Sent Classified Information on Her Private Email Account, Explained (freebeacon.com)

 

[Postvieww]

There is a double standard in the media and from the left.
See the link on Hillary


Hillary Clinton Sent Classified Information on Her Private Email Account, Explained (freebeacon.com)

Great info, but the lefties will never believe it. If someone posted Trump had two horns and a forked tail they would believe that.

 

[Postvieww]

Of course. Why do you need to ask? I said "NO ONE."

Great would you inform the FBI they should look into those perps.

 

[frank sears]

The state of America. Obama came into power with the intent of changing our wonderful nation into a dictatorial government control nation. He set the stage by replacing leadership in all the places that he could with his stooges. Hilary was supposed to continue on, but Trump got in the way. Trump was trying to save America and they hated that. Trump got the country in the right direction in spite of the lying media. Biden comes along, by his own word he had the best collection of voter fraud experts the world had ever seen, and they were able to cheat him into power. Today he is gleefully destroying our country. Biden got under 66 million votes with a fairly popular president, are we suppose to believe he got 80 million votes with someone that no one likes (Harris).

 

[The Barbarian]

Influence peddling with foreign governments involving the current resident in the White House the "Big Man" confirmed by a business partner of Hunter's. Interesting how early reports from the left tried to pass this off as Russian disinformation. Amazing how the laptop fell into oblivion at the completely trust worthy, bastion of truth and justice the FBI.

There has to be a specfic crime documented on the laptop. Problem is, after Rudy got it, there were a few um. "enhancements" made on it. By the time the FBI got it, someone had removed the files that would have made it possible to check to see exactly what was originally on the laptop and what was there when it went into the shop.

In March 2022, The Washington Post published the findings of two forensic information analysts it had retained to examine 217 gigabytes of data provided to the paper on a hard drive by Republican activist Jack Maxey, who represented that its contents came from the laptop. One of the analysts characterized the data as a "disaster" from a forensics standpoint. The analysts found that people other than Biden had repeatedly accessed and copied data for nearly three years; they also found evidence others had written files to the drive both before and after the October 2020 New York Post reports. In September 2020, someone created six new folders on the drive, including with the names "Biden Burisma," "Salacious Pics Package" and "Hunter. Burisma Documents." One of the analysts found evidence someone may have accessed the drive contents from a West Coast location days after The New York Post published their stories about the laptop.

Using cryptographic signatures, the analysts were able to verify that from 1,828 to nearly 22,000 emails Biden had received came from the indicated email accounts of origin, suggesting they were authentic and had not been tampered with. The analysts said emails from Burisma, where Pozharskyi was an advisor, were likely authentic, but cautioned that if Burisma had been hacked, it would be possible for hackers to use stolen cryptographic signatures to forge emails that would pass as authentic. The New York Times reported in January 2020 that Russian military intelligence had hacked Burisma beginning in November 2019; a co-founder of the firm that discovered the hacking said Russians were stealing email credentials. Both analysts acknowledged that cryptographic signatures are not a perfect way to authenticate emails, as some email services do not implement the technology as rigorously as others. About 16,000 of the 22,000 emails carrying cryptographic signatures came via Google, which rigorously implements the technology. The analysts noted that cryptographic signatures can only verify that an email originated from a certain email account, but not who controlled that account; there are other means for hackers to commandeer email accounts of others.

One of the analysts found that timestamps on documents and in operating system indexes matched, though he noted hackers could forge timestamps in undetectable ways. The analysts also noted that the drive had been handled in such a way that logs and other files used by forensic analysts to examine system activity had been repeatedly deleted. Neither analyst found evidence emails or other files had been manipulated by hackers, nor could they rule out that possibility.[13][50]

An analysis by Distributed Denial of Secrets of 128,755 emails allegedly copied from the laptop and circulated by allies and former staff of President Donald Trump showed "signs of tampering" including 145 modification dates and emails created more than a year after Hunter Biden allegedly had the laptop.[51][52] Matt Tait, a cybersecurity expert and former information security specialist for the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters, reviewed the analysis and said "it is clear the cache isn’t in its original form."[53]
Hunter Biden laptop controversy - Wikipedia

There's only two reasons to have messed with it:
1. to hide a crime, presumably by Hunter Biden
2. to make it look as though Hunter Biden might have committed a crime.

You need to ask yourself which one of those would be a motivation for Rudy and Trump.

 

[All Becomes New]

I guess we aren't going to hear about the crime they found on the laptop. Darn, I thought we might finally get an answer on that.

You are right in there with Sam Harris. I'm impressed by how liberal you are.

BREAKING: Sam Harris admits the censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop was a conspiracy to help Biden, and he stands by it

 

[frank sears]

Continued. I am sure that Biden cheated his way into the White House. His agenda is antigod and destructive for everyone. On the other hand, if it really did happen that 80 million Americans would vote for this godless liar to be their leader, then our country deserves to become a third world mickey mouse type of country, bullied by others.

 

[The Barbarian]

The state of America. Obama came into power with the intent of changing our wonderful nation into a dictatorial government control nation.

Which is why he declared that as president, he could "do whatever I want."

Trump Claims Article 2 Gives Him ‘The Right To Do Whatever I Want As President’
Trump: Article II Gives Me ‘Right To Do Whatever I Want’ As POTUS

Oh wait. That wasn't Obama.

But it's why Obama said he wanted to "take guns first and worry about due process later":

Trump says take guns first and worry about 'due process second' in White House gun meeting

Trump: Take guns first and worry about due process later

Oh, wait... that wasn't Obama, either.

But it's why Obama stole box after box of classified information from the WH and hid them in his home...

Uh...

FBI took 11 sets of classified material from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home while investigating possible Espionage Act violations

FBI took 11 sets of classified material from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home while investigating possible Espionage Act violations - CNNPolitics

Never mind...

 

[The Barbarian]

I guess we aren't going to hear about the crime they found on the laptop. Darn, I thought we might finally get an answer on that.

You are right in there with Sam Harris. I'm impressed by how liberal you are.

I always thought of due process, and "innocent until proven guilty" as libertarian ideals. But you could be right.

If you ever figure out what that crime was on the laptop, be sure to show it to us with the evidence, um?

 

[Sparagmos]

Great would you inform the FBI they should look into those perps.

Why and how would I do that?