Outraged yet?

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

In the lastest issue of the AARP Bulletin is this brief story headlined “What an Outrage,” and after reading the piece, we think the headline was right on.

Here’s the lead: “Thousands of companies that reaped big bucks from the federal government through recent economic stimulus efforts apparently aren’t fulfilling their tax responsibilities.”

The piece said that at least 3,700 companies that got government contracts under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are delinquent on a whopping $750 million in unpaid corporate income tax, payroll, taxes and excise and unemployment taxes.

This, we think, is a perfect target for those congressmen and congresswomen who complain constantly about government (look that up under Tea Party) but seem to forget that corporations do everything they can to get out of their responsibilities to government and, through government, to us.

Instead of constantly kvetching about the deficit, get these scofflaws to pay up and that will help the problem. But nobody seems to care. Is the Justice Department going after these companies? Doubtful.

But with the fear instilled in Congress by the Tea Party, they could do something about it: Yell bloody murder, drag the CEOs before a congressional committee and demand payment.

Isn’t the Tea Party supposed to be on the side of the people? Well, maybe not.

Is it better to just rail against government instead of actually doing something?

What, for instance, is Congressman Frank Guinta doing about it? Something? Anything? Nothing?

Or they afraid their corporate contributions might dry up if they took on corporations?