Showing posts with label Extortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extortion. Show all posts

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Peter Schweizer: Congress Using Tax Code to Milk Industries!

Breitbart, January 3, 2014

Appearing on Fox News' Hannity with guest-host Eric Bolling, Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer said Washington's politicians are finding more creative ways to use the tax code to milk various industries to their benefit. 

Bolling noted that 55 new laws will bring in an estimated $54 billion in tax increases in 2014. Schweizer emphasized that Congress always finds a way to use creative accounting to get around the Congressional Budget Office and various "pay-as-you-go" requirements. 



Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Congress Charges Secret Fee to Land Top Committee Spots— Doesn’t sound like the right way to do things.

Check it out:
   
Members of Congress must pay secret fees known as “party dues” to the Democratic and Republican parties to secure and maintain top committee chairmanships and assignments, newly uncovered internal documents reveal.Con

The never-before-published lists are reprinted inside the new book Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, written by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer.

Senior congressional staffers say the committee price lists have long been rumored to exist but that few people on Capitol Hill have seen them, giving them an almost “mythical” quality.

CONTINUED:  http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/21/Congress-Charges-Secret-Fee-to-Land-Top-Committee-Spots