Re:66% Of American Corporations Pay Zero Federal Income Tax.
by nazgulnarsil on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @03:41PM
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i don't have a good intoductory book to recommend off the top of my head if you're unaware of the insanely corrupt world of government contracting. I thought it was common knowledge as it gets reported on from time to time.
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Re:66% Of American Corporations Pay Zero Federal Income Tax.
by nazgulnarsil on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @05:44PM
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oh, the short answer is that government doesn't behave as a regular customer. with regular customers you don't have such binary outcomes of huge contract or no business at all.
Re:66% Of American Corporations Pay Zero Federal Income Tax.
by m_eiman on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @04:18AM
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Well, that depends on the size of the contract. There's no natural law that says that governments have to buy everything in vast chunks. And they don't, at least not over here.
Everything that takes place in the vast scale is prone to corruption, regardless if the buyers and sellers are private or public.