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Don’t Mess With Taxes
Does the consumption tax stand a chance? Also: Learning to live with anti-Catholicism. Depending on DeLay. Losing it in Boston. Plus much more.
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Boy, David Holman sure missed the boat in his impassioned defense of a Special Counsel who can find no government waste and thinks that most reports of federal malfeasance are more chaff than wheat. Scott Bloch is in a position to shake up bloated bureaucracies and expose wrong-headed programs but instead is having trouble getting out of the blocks.
The charge of anti-Catholicism is a defensive smoke screen for the head of the office charged with policing against nepotism and favoritism using taxpayer dollars to employ his friends and associates without ever once making a competitive merit-based hire.
p>The reason we have a civil service is to provide some check against the return to a spoils system. Whatever one thinks about the value of civil service, while it is here, its rule should be enforced even-handedly and with integrity. Too bad, that it ain’t happening. br> — Jeff Ruch br> Executive Director br> Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) br> Washington, D.C. /p>
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