Thursday, March 30, 2006

Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 29, 2006: "‘How do you say revolving door in Japanese?’ Former Senator Howard Baker (R-TN), the U.S. Ambassador to Japan until last year, has already registered as a lobbyist for Toshiba Corporation.

Halliburton actually did ‘a worse job under its second Iraq oil contract than it did under the original no-bid contract,’ repeatedly overcharging the government and exhibiting ‘profound systemic problems.’

30 out of more than 180,000 millionaires were audited by the IRS last year. Poor taxpayers were almost twice as likely to be audited as the wealthy."

(Via Think Progress.)