Friday, March 07, 2008

IRAQ WAR - The Ripoff of the American Public, Again

"Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore" by Farah Stockman, Boston Globe

The article leads off with this....

CAYMAN ISLANDS - Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven.

You may want to take an antacid before reading the rest of the article.

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