The So Not Cool Bill Cram du jour - How Do You Go About Proving a Negative?

Obama is making a proposal announcement to Congress later this morning that if passed, will have two very negative and far-reaching effects on this country. He will propose Congress write a bill to raise taxes on corporations and literally change the way the courts view the presumption of innocence by going after US Citizens who put their money into off-shore, non reporting country banks. This tiny little sideline will seek to prosecute people who keep monies offshore through tax avoidance/cheat laws. He will also ask for provisions for 800 new IRS agents to fulfill this law. 800! I just love these one, two, three you’re out “bill cram du jour” punches, don’t you?

We will make it look good while we change the entire way our system works in the country and no one will be the wiser!

I am going to focus on that bigger point that will be hidden in this bill cram de jour, that little known bit of information wwwaaaaayyyyy at the bottom of the article that we won’t really catch in his spectacularly orated announcement. The second half of that bill I will call the “You are so screwed” amendment. To do that, I still have to attack the first premise of the bill in the hopes that enough of the right people get a hold of this to stop the train before it gets rolling.

Under the guise of “making the rich corporations pay” what will end up being a measly $210 Billion over 10 years (vs. the very real $787 Billion Stimulus Package slated to be spent over the next two years), Obama is going to use this bill cram du jour to “do an AIG” on the American people once again. He’s going to highlight the terrible nature of a company trying to make enough money to survive our country’s outrageous tax consequences to be able to employ folks. Then he is going to make a big to do about those terrible rich people who use non-reporting country’s banking systems to “circumvent” tax laws, “cheat” the poor people. What he won’t say is that while he is at it, he is going to slip in the teeny-tiny little change to our presumption of innocence clause, namely changing it to a presumption of guilt clause that says we will have to prove our innocence!

Are you hearing me? You Mr. “Charged with Theft” or Mrs. “Didn’t Pay My Taxes on Time”. You will, if this bill passes, be presumed guilty, and have to find a way to prove your innocence.

If you think this will only affect tax law, you are sorely mistaken. Once that door is open, once a case is upheld, that CASE LAW will be what permeates every other smart prosecutor’s case building efforts, in all courtrooms, at all levels - tax, civil and criminal.

It only takes one case.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
- Robert F. Kennedy

This announcement will be to try to get the American Public spun up once again about the “rich” getting “richer”, even as it applies to businesses who are the ones who do the employing. I’m not going to belabor this point mainly because there is nothing to labor over. It is a proven fact: businesses that are forced to pay higher taxes in America do three things - move more jobs or their entire company overseas, raise the price of goods to Americans (pass through), and lay off those Americans who are the ones doing the jobs that provide the businesses a loophole to begin with. You can argue those points, but you’ll sound rather dense because you can’t hide from those facts.

If you are a corporation, or you are a defense, business, tax lawyer, or judge, we are counting on you. Somehow, you must get to the media who tingles up their legs every time the orator utters an “uh”, you must promise no campaign contributions to anyone on the left if this bill goes through and you must let the money you have amassed work for you on this one. Frame the argument in a way everyone can understand. You aren’t big business people, rich, or attorneys for nothing, and I would say this is more important to be on the side of right rather than on the side of populous and shut Obama down on this one. You have good brains. Use them! They aren’t listening to the masses anymore, we will back you and fight like hell, but you are the ones on the front lines on this one.

Will someone please be big enough to stand up to set this control freak President down! And Jack Kemp, if you can hear me, please mention this one to Jesus while you are making introductions!