....I'm not sure what this has to do with mainframes or even I.T., though. It just emphasizes once again at the utter lack of importance attributed to facts in many debates (choose whatever debate and whichever side) - it's all narrative and posturing (and - that - has been related to Mainframes and IT )
MZ -----הודעה מקורית----- מאת: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] בשם Timothy Sipples נשלח: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:03 AM אל: [email protected] נושא: Re: Employees exposed to direct enforcement actions (WAS Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control >>We have only to look >>at the actions of the IRS in recent years. >They went after PACs on both side of the aisle, for the same types of >violations. That's correct, Shmuel, though the abuses were disproportionately on one side since that's the side wealthy donors disproportionately favor. Moreover, "went after" consisted of sending the organizations inquiry letters asking them for further information and justification why they should be entitled to the particular tax status they were seeking. Yes, that's right, inquiry letters. The letters requested basic information many of these political organizations couldn't truthfully provide because they simply weren't entitled to the tax status under the law. There are four genuine scandals. The first is that one party in Congress persecuted IRS officials for doing the jobs that Congress (as a whole) and the President told them to do: to enforce the U.S. tax code. The second is that the other party failed to defend the IRS for merely doing its job, so much so that many people are misinformed about what actually happened and didn't happen. The third is that one party in Congress has effectively, unilaterally neutered a particular section of the tax code to satisfy their own narrow political interests and those of their donors, depriving the public of the ordinary tax revenues these commercial enterprises should be paying under the law. The fourth is that many (if not most) of these enterprises are scamming their donors due to high overheads and grossly ineffective spending decisions, both not accidental. However, I'm all in favor of understanding facts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
