EPA to property owner: ‘Your land is our land’

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on 9/24/2011 @ 6:55 pm

$40 million in EPA fines pending over plan to build new home

“Just imagine. You want to build a home, so you buy a $23,000 piece of land in a residential subdivision in your hometown and get started. The government then tells you to stop, threatens you with $40 million in fines and is not kidding.

That’s the case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, with briefs being filed today by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of a Priest Lake, Idaho, family, Chantell and Mike Sackett.

Attorney Damien Schiff: “The regime we have operating now allows the EPA to take property without having to pay for it, or giving the owners the right to their day in court.””

The organization has prepared a video to explain the case:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=348077#ixzz1YuvRHdV0

full article:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=348077

Illegal Aliens Receive Billions in IRS Tax Benefits

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on @ 6:00 pm

On July 7, 2011, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration issued a startling report entitled “Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in the United States Were Paid $4.2 Billion in Refundable Credits.”

No wonder the nation’s finances are in turmoil.

According to the Treasury report, foreign nationals not authorized to work in the United States and ineligible for a Social Security Number (SSN) are nevertheless receiving government help from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS currently issues undocumented aliens an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) to facilitate their filing of tax returns.

Many illegal workers are paid in cash “under the table” and thus file no tax forms at all; but a number of undocumented workers, according to the Treasury report, are receiving public benefits contrary to federal and state laws.

http://www.newsmax.com/JamesWalsh/Illegal-Aliens-IRS-Tax/2011/09/23/id/412134