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Skriven 2006-06-08 17:11:06 av John Massey (1:123/789.0)
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Ärende: $50 million in travel
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"ROSS SAUER -> JOHN MASSEY" <1:123/140> wrote in message
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 RS> JOHN MASSEY said to ALL ,

 JM>> The nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity released a study
 JM>> yesterday and it showed that over a 5+ year period between 2000 and
 JM>> 2005, members of Congress (both Republicans and Democrats) accepted
 JM>> $50 million in travel from corporations and special interest groups.
 JM>> This makes Jack Abramoff look like a pauper.  Among the findings:

 JM>> Members and their aides took at least 23,000 trips paid for by
 JM>> outside interests

 JM>>    *

 JM>>      2,300 of the trips cost more than $5,000
 JM>>    *

 JM>>      500 cost $10,000 or more...and 16 cost at least $25,000.

 JM>> Among the goodies:

 JM>>    *

 JM>>      $500 a night hotel rooms....not exactly Motel 6.
 JM>>    *

 JM>>      $25,000 corporate jet rides (yep..it costs that much.  Trust
 JM>>    me.) *

 JM>>      200 trips to Paris, 150 to Hawaii and 140 to Italy.

 JM>> Since companies don't pay millions of dollars for nothing, what do
 JM>> you suppose they got in return?  Corporations and special interest
 JM>> groups pay for influence because they want a member of Congress to
 JM>> listen to their proposal or push their personal legislative agenda or
 JM>> tax exemption. Imagine how much less money would flow through the
 JM>> halls of Congress if there was no income tax and thus no complicated
 JM>> tax code. Whenever you're talking about power in Washington, know
 JM>> this: the overwhelming majority of that power is derived from
 JM>> taxation.

 JM>> Yet another argument for the Fair Tax.

 RS> And yet another reason it will never go anywhere, with the corrupt
 RS> democrats and even more corrupt GOP "leadership" of the White House,
 RS> Senate and House in charge.

Like I said; the politicians are also smart enough to know that if enough
people tell them to support the Fait Tax or they will vote them out, it will
pass.
Will it be easy? No. Can it actually happen? If the crowd that attended the
Fair Tax Rally  last week in Atlanta is any indication of the support for
this movement,  absolutely

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