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Is Blackwater Dodging Taxes?

Photo from source, TPM Muckraker

Oh, c'mon. Would it surprise anyone if this were to turn out to be 100% true? To me, it seems, the people who tout their patriotism with the most gusto are the ones actually screwing the country. This is just the latest example.

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Waxman Calls for Investigations of Blackwater Tax Dodge

It was a pretty neat trick. Because Blackwater classified its guards in Iraq as independent contractors, the company saved possibly "tens of millions" of dollars in taxes. . .

Read more at: TPM Muckraker

Cheney Helped KBR Dodge Taxes?

Photo from (of course): FOX "News"

For all the talk coming out of the far-right about Barack Obama being "unpatriotic," I think it might behoove them to point the finger in a different direction. If the details of this story are accurate, Dick Cheney has been up to some pretty un-American behavior. Surprised?

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KBR Dodges $500 Million In Social Security And Medicare Taxes In Cheney-Backed Scheme

No private contractor has financially profited from the Iraq war more than Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), which until last year was a subsidiary of Halliburton. The firm currently has more than 21,000 employees in Iraq, and between 2004 and 2006, received more than $16 billion in government contracts — far more than any other corporation.

Yet KBR hasn’t been passing on these enormous profits to American taxpayers or even its own employees, thanks to a plan that Vice President Cheney helped establish. . .

Read more at: Think Progress