1…………> Trump’s Big Win: A Tax Cut
GOP passed with 51-49 votes the largest tax overhaul in 30 years through the Senate, slashing the corporate rate from 35% to 20%, creating three individual tax brackets with rates of 12%, 25% and 35%, doubling the standard deduction, and most important of all, repealed the requirement that all Americans obtain health insurance, the cornerstone of despised Obama Care.
2………….> Hail Texas: Mein Kampf
Texas’ criminal justice department has banned more than 10,000 book titles from state prisons, however, Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and two titles by former Ku Klux Klan chief David Duke are supposedly fine.
In the Islamic Merkeldom of Germany where the book was banned until 2016, a heavily edited and politically correct doctored-up version was published, which put the racist and anti-Semitic manifesto into historical context.
The Dallas Morning News reported the TDCJ’s choices of approved literature on behalf of Texas’ nearly 150,000 inmates, and the book is probably the same that Uncle Adolf wrote nearly hundred years ago. If this does not scare someone in Texas and around the US, it is hard to imagine what would.
http://m.dw.com/en/mein-kampf-is-appropriate-for-texas-prisons-monty-python-not-so-much/a-41630930
3………….> Private Enterprise: Top Secret Information
Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to willful retention of national defense information as an employee of Tailored Access Operations (TAO) developer for the National Security Agency (NSA).
Pho who held various security clearances and had access to national defense and classified information, removed and retained U.S. government documents and writings that contained national defense information, including information classified as Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmented Information. This material was in both hard copy and digital form, and was retained in Pho’s residence in Maryland.
Pho faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
4…………> Income Tax Fraud: Florida
The United States Justice Department filed two civil injunction suits seeking to bar three siblings who prepare tax returns and their businesses from owning, operating, or franchising a tax return preparation business and preparing tax returns for others, in one complaint against Herve Erilus of Cocoa, Florida, and his business, Herve Erilus LLC. The government filed a second complaint against the businesses of Gerline Erilus of Orlando, Gerline Erilus and St. Fonie Erilus of Apopka, Florida.
The complaints allege that the Eriluses engage in misconduct, including:
Falsely claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit
Claiming improper filing status (i.e. head of household for married individuals)
Fabricating businesses and related business income and expenses
Fabricating deductions
Charging deceptive and unconscionable fees
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-seeks-shut-down-florida-tax-return-preparers
5………..> Flynn’s File: Trump’s Version
President Trump responded to a guilty plea by his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, saying his actions “were lawful”, reiterating that he personally had “nothing to hide” and was appalled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller disclosure that a top FBI agent was dismissed from his team after the discovery that he had sent anti-Trump text messages.