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In Kentucky, which lost $150 million to tax shelters, $2.6 million would have allowed Gov. Paul Patton to leave behind bars the 883 prison inmates he released early in a desperate effort to balance the state's budget. I have a sneaking suspicion that the 25-year old woman who was raped by one of these freed inmates just three days after his release would consider that $2.6 million money very well spent.
And the list goes on and on. Vital programs and services cut or eliminated that could have been saved had corporate America just done the right thing and paid what it owed.
It's time for the IRS to stop coddling corporate crooks and start going after tax shelter thieves with a vengeance. To do any less is a slap in the face of all the hard working taxpayers who, however grudgingly, pay their fair share.
Wealthy corporations absolutely must be forced to do the same. Because in the end, it's not the big, bad taxman these corporate tax cheats are pulling a fast one on. It's you and me.
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