Pigs never get full

I think it’s officially time for us to tool up and storm the capitol!

#1 – Halfway down this article in today’s paper I developed an ulcer – I.R.S. Cuts target lawyers who audit the richest

The Bush administration has successfully lobbied Congress to enact measures that reduce the number of Americans who are subject to the estate tax — which opponents refer to as the “death tax” — but has failed in its efforts to eliminate the tax entirely. Brown said Friday that he had ordered the staff cuts because far fewer people were obliged to pay estate taxes under President Bush’s legislation. But six IRS estate tax lawyers whose jobs are likely to be eliminated said in interviews that the cuts were just the latest moves behind the scenes at the IRS to shield people with political connections and complex tax-avoidance devices from thorough audits. Sharyn Phillips, a veteran IRS estate tax lawyer in Manhattan, called the cuts a “back-door way for the Bush administration to achieve what it cannot get from Congress, which is repeal of the estate tax.”