IT'S STILL TAXES

NY Post ^ | 11/19/03

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

First, the citizens spoke. Then, businesses spoke. Their consensus: New York's taxes are just too bloody high. So now everyone seems to agree - except the pols who keep raising them. The first shout came last week.

"Local taxes in New York state are the highest in the nation, exceeding the national average by 72 percent," said the Citizens Budget Commission - speaking for New York citizens - upon the release of its damning study on the state's chronic fiscal woes.

[princess leah]

There really IS a city named Gotham? Gosh, Batman, will we have to move the batcave to avoid higher taxes?

[Cicero]

Fortunately, Batman is exceedingly rich.

[Mikey]

There is good news on the horizon.

Employer Simkanin Prosecution Ends in Mistrial

Judge Stymies Both Jury & Defense
DOJ Intends to Retry Simkanin ASAP

Jury Hung at 11-1 Favoring Acquittal

After almost 6 months of incarceration in isolation awaiting his federal trial, non-withholding employer Dick Simkanin’s trial ended this evening in a mistrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on federal charges that Simkanin failed to Withhold taxes from his employees.

Simkanin, a successful Bedford, Texas business owner, had been charged with 12 counts of Willful Failure to Withhold employment taxes for his employees and 15 counts of filing False Claims for requesting refunds of tax pre-payments that had been made by Simkanin on behalf of those employees.

Facing years in federal prison, his trial lasted only hours, beginning and ending yesterday – largely because the Court denied Simkanin the opportunity present any expert defense witnesses or legal evidence regarding the contested legal obligations under US income tax statutes. Jury deliberations started this morning and the mistrial was declared around 6 PM Central time. A report from several sources close to the Simkanin team was that the jury hung 11-1 in favor of acquittal.

Go to The truth is emerging at last as long as its not censored