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Dear Folk, Watching the news I heard a short segment that I thought was interesting. Here is the transcript I ordered: =20 NBC Nightly News April 15, 1997=20 TOM BROKAW, anchor: =93We also have a footnote on this tax day, 1997. We couldn't resist taking= a=20 look back and tallying up the FLEECING OF AMERICA reports that we've told you about over the past year-stories of your tax dollars wasted. All told, 51 examples since last tax day, all examples of the FLEECING OF AMERICA,=20 from paying for needless warranties on high-tech military hardware, like this F-15 fighter. =20 Even the Pentagon says this is a waste and and unneccessary, a $257 million-a-year fleecing. To the $440 million that major oil companies owe the government, but refuse to pay for oil pumped off federal lands. To Nevada land deals-the federal government swaps land with private developers to protect environmentally sensitive areas, but the government does not get fair market value for its land. The loss to taxpayers? As much as $100 million. To a tax scheme of the super-rich. By renouncing their American citizenship, Ken Dart and more than a dozen other multi-millionaires have also dodged their US tax liability. The cost? A half billion dollars in lost taxes for the government each year. So, as you worry about your tax burden, consider how much waste and misspending we uncovered last year with the FLEECING OF AMERICA-almost $15 billion, Fifteen billion! Of course we'll be on the lookout all this coming year for more examples of the FLEECING OF AMERICA.=94 And our legislators want US to tell them how to fund the Udall bill??= Really!!! Margaret Tuchman (55yrs, Dx 1980)- NJ-08540 [log in to unmask]