John Baer | Congress flat-out disses the taxpayers

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, April, 2007

I TEND TO GET angrier than usual this time of year.

And if you haven't yet filed your federal income-tax return (due 11:59 tonight, by the way), or even if you have, you know what I mean.

The painful, often costly process is an annual annoyance, either poring over paperwork or paying someone to do it for you.

Then the figures remind you how government spends your money while many corporations and rich people use loopholes to keep theirs.

Congress' Government Accountability Office says that more than half of U.S. corporations paid no federal income tax, zero, during the boom years of the late 1990s, and that corporate tax receipts are at a 20-year low.

Meanwhile, the new Democratic Congress, the one...