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RUSH: Okay, so you\u2019re upset at the money we spend or give Israel every year. Try this. “Thousands of companies –” and, by the way, this is an AP story, and they are totally unfazed by this, and this, to me, is one of the stories of the day. If it weren\u2019t for Netanyahu being here, if it weren\u2019t for Obama going to Ireland and Europe, if it weren\u2019t for the tornadoes in Joplin, this would be a huge story. “Thousands of companies that cashed in on President Barack Obama&rsquo;s economic stimulus package owed the government millions in unpaid taxes, congressional investigators have found.” You see, in terms of the way AP wrote this, Obama didn\u2019t give these companies, these organizations, money that they should never have gotten. They cashed in. That\u2019s how you write about slush funds. They cashed in. <\/p>\n

So the slush fund, the stimulus bill directed money at organizations and companies that owed back taxes. In other words, the government, the regime forgave these organizations and companies their back taxes by paying them the money that they owed. “The Government Accountability Office, in a report being released today, said at least 3,700 government contractors and nonprofit organizations that received more than $24 billion from the stimulus effort owed $757 million in back taxes as of Sept. 30, 2009, the end of the budget year.” So 3,700 contractors and nonprofits, organizations, owed a grand total of $757 million, and collectively they got $24 billion. <\/p>\n

So they got enough money to pay their back taxes, and then some, and then some more, and then some more. It\u2019s $24 billion to pay off $757 million. So they still had $22 billion left over to play with, government contractors and nonprofits. I wonder what they had in common besides being tax cheats? Might they have been contributors to the Democrat Party? Maybe they had been foot soldiers? Maybe they helped get-out-the-vote? Maybe they were part of the reelect effort somehow, and so their back taxes were not only forgiven, but they got your taxpayer dollars given to them so they could pay their back taxes. I suspect so because none of them are named in this story. We don\u2019t know who. Why aren\u2019t we told the names of these companies and these nonprofit organizations by this unfazed Associated Press? <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, my guess — and it\u2019s a good one — is that we\u2019re not getting the names because we would learn that they are major contributors to the Democrat Party. I\u2019ll betcha some of the people who got money from the stimulus to pay their back taxes have names that rhyme with SEIU or ACORN or Planned Parenthood or AARP. Given that so much of the stimulus money went to public sector unions –and we now know it did –we\u2019ve given you the numbers out of Wisconsin, 80% of the money Wisconsin got went to public employee unions, stimulus money. While we were all told that this was to create private sector jobs, roads and bridges, schools, infrastructure, a giant snow job. And what we learn keeps making it worse.<\/p>\n

Now, according to this report, it isn\u2019t even illegal for companies that cheat on their taxes to get more government money. AP made sure to find out. AP made sure to find out, and they made sure to report, hey, by the way, if you\u2019re thinking this is illegal, no, no, it\u2019s not, President Obama clean and pure as the wind-driven snow on this. There\u2019s no illegality here. Let\u2019s move on. Sometimes the most criminal things are the things that aren\u2019t criminal. Now, do you know anybody who got a government contract or a grant from the stimulus? I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t know one person. Now, I may know them but they haven\u2019t told me. But to my knowledge, I don\u2019t know anybody who got a government contract or a grant from the stimulus, personally. <\/p>\n

But note this: Only 13 out of these 3,700 organizations are going to get any further investigation of the IRS. We have 3,700 tax cheats. They were given aggregately $24 billion in stimulus money. They only owed a total of $757 million, they got $24 billion added together, and only 13 of them are going to be further investigated, 13 out of 3,700. And where was Sheriff Joe on this, Vice President Bite Me? He was put in charge of making sure there wasn\u2019t any corruption in the way the stimulus money was doled out. How could this have gotten past such a razor sharp mind as Plugs Biden\u2019s? But if it wasn\u2019t before, it is now, painfully clear that Obama really did use the stimulus to rebuild the infrastructure of the Democrat Party and to make sure that people who donate to the Democrat Party didn\u2019t lose their jobs. That\u2019s what it was. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re in the middle of a recession, Obama, utilizing panic and Armageddon in order to get this stimulus bill passed, in effect creates a slush fund to help his buddies, pay \u2019em back for their work on the campaign. A lot of these great Americans owed back taxes. They don\u2019t any longer because they got stimulus money. (interruption) Well, that\u2019s a good point. We don\u2019t know that they used it to pay it back. They may still owe the taxes. They may not have paid the back taxes. If it were me, I would. But knowing full well that I am being forgiven and forgotten at the same time, why pay the back taxes? <\/p>\n<\/p>\n“The report said the tax delinquents accounted for nearly 6 percent of the 63,000 contractors and grantees examined and cautioned that the real number might be higher because the known tax debt does not measure such factors as income underreporting. The IRS called it ‘an extreme case of noncompliance.'”<\/p>\n

So there you have it, just to sum up, thousands of companies, 3,700 of them, government contractors and nonprofits, owed a total of $757 million in back taxes. Those 3,700 companies received a total of $24 billion from the stimulus that you thought was being spent to help you find work, create jobs in the private sector. So $24 billion given to 3,700 companies that owed $757 million in back taxes. Tax cheats got $24 billion from Obama\u2019s stash. That would be the story of the day were all these other things not happening to hide this news and make it bottom of the barrel. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, so Israel gets between four and five billion dollars a year from the United States. Obama supporting tax cheats got $24 billion from the stimulus plan, and they owed back taxes. And you want talk to me about Israel being a welfare queen?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I wonder if Reverend Sharpton\u2019s group, the National Action Network, I wonder if they got some of the stimulus money. You know, they owe back taxes. Reverend Sharpton owes some back taxes. I wonder if he got some of Obama\u2019s stash. They owe millions in back taxes out there. <\/p>\n

Still waiting on or cutting the Benjamin Netanyahu speech, joint meeting of Congress today. I got some e-mails during the break that I looked at: “Why are you spending so much time on Netanyahu and his speech, Israel and all that?” They\u2019re life lessons here, folks. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve got other things in the news. Giuliani thinking about getting in the race now. Rudy G. Well, he\u2019s flirting with it. Newt was on CNBC today and tore \u2019em a new one. It was the old vintage Newt. It was the Newt Gingrich that everybody remembers. So many other things here to discuss, but yeah, what\u2019s the question? <\/p>\n

Snerdley, official program observer with a question, what\u2019s the question? Okay, the question is how do government contractors, nonprofits, owe back taxes and not go to jail and people like Wesley Snipes doesn\u2019t pay his taxes and goes to jail? Well, in Wesley Snipes\u2019 case, he fought \u2019em and lost. He went to court. He disputed the fact that he owed the money. He lost. He refused to pay, and thereby goes to jail. But the correct answer to the question is, there isn\u2019t any fairness or equity across the board on taxes. I mean not every tax cheat gets caught, not everybody is audited. They can only audit some people, and so a lot of people get away with it. <\/p>\n

The IRS would just as soon strike a deal with you if you owed taxes to get the money rather than put you in jail. In that sense they\u2019re the like the mob. I mean the last thing they do is kill you. If the loan shark kills you it means it\u2019s time for other clients of theirs to be sent a message. But they\u2019d rather keep you alive because only then can you have any chance of paying them what you owe them. You can\u2019t if you\u2019re dead. <\/p>\n<\/p>\nNow, when it comes to these nonprofits and so forth, you know, look at all these companies that have sprung up now that will negotiate with the IRS on your behalf. One of them, one of the best ones is a sponsor on this program. So there are a lot of people in this situation and there\u2019s nothing to say that these nonprofits and the defense contractors were getting away with it. They owed it. We don\u2019t know from the story even who they were. They weren\u2019t identified. Therefore we also don\u2019t know if they were in the process of negotiating with the IRS to pay something back. We don\u2019t know any of that. They could well have been. Don\u2019t think it was forgiven. If you\u2019re asking me why is the IRS leaving them alone and not others, they\u2019re not leaving \u2019em alone. The very fact they owe back taxes is proof that the IRS is not leaving them alone. <\/p>\n

The only way it is known that anybody owes back taxes is if the IRS has audited you and decided that you do owe back taxes, which means you are in the midst of an ongoing dispute or conversation with them. That\u2019s what makes this doubly reprehensible. These defense contractors or government contractors and nonprofits were caught. The IRS discovered that they owed taxes in the process here of trying to get the money from \u2019em. And here comes the guardian angel, Barack Obama, taking money that he told us was earmarked for us to create jobs in our private sector. Instead that money is going to his donors. That stimulus money, I\u2019m telling you, was a giant money laundering scheme. And so stimulus money ended up going to people who owe back taxes but they had no doubt been favorably disposed towards Obama. <\/p>\n

I guarantee you they got rid of the IRS with the money. If these 3,700 organizations and contractors owed a total between them of $757 million, and they collectively got $24 billion, I guarantee you they all paid their taxes and they\u2019re free and clear. That makes it even doubly offensive and reprehensible, \u2019cause their back taxes and probably penalties and interest were paid from stimulus money. And now they got a clean slate. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good thing the governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon\u2019s, a Democrat, otherwise Obama would not go there. We had wildfire destruction in Texas. The governor there, Rick Perry, asks for federal disaster help, and the regime says no purely because Texas is a red state, didn\u2019t vote for Obama. That\u2019s the answer. People don\u2019t want to accept it, but it is the answer. Jay Nixon of Missouri is a Democrat. Missouri, swing state, could go either way. <\/p>\n

Claire McCaskill, if she runs, is in a tight race. Obama is gonna go in there, albeit six days from now, or five days from now but he is nevertheless gonna go in there. So it really was. The stimulus bill was to protect and build and shore up the infrastructure of the Democrat Party almost exclusively. The big difference between the mob and the government is that when the mob has collected what you owe them, they leave you alone. The government doesn\u2019t. They continue to hound you. They come back at you year after year after year. I\u2019ve been audited every year. Now my US federal gift tax returns are being audited, for five years. It\u2019s a constant thing and I\u2019ve yet to be found in arrears. But they keep searching.<\/p>\n

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