Posted on 02/26/2015 2:33:41 PM PST by Kaslin
All that has just been reinforced ten fold.
Crony capitalism...a fundamental tenet of the Chicago Mob.
Of course with the media being a supportive regime partner, who would suspect any wrongdoing?
Now we learn H&R was all for this monster so it could generate more business....
They will rob your ass blind. They won’t even fart without charging for it.
The core of the problem is a tax system that two college-educated people with three degrees between them and one Mensa membership can’t even begin to comprehend.
Starve the monster. Put them out of business with a simple tax code.
HRB through their OptionOne Mortgage subsidiary created some of the most out of control financial vehicles prior to the 2008 housing meltdown...
The dude forgot about the Louisiana Purchase and the Cornhusker Kickback.
And he forgot about the outright lies told about religious exemptions to birth control mandates.
If I remember, they have a basic fee, the so much more per form.
The Chicago Mob was just updating the politico-economic modus vivendi that Mussolini called, in the same era, "fascism". Except that the m. o. went back thousands of years earlier.
Engrossment of the conquered population's capos in a crony-capitalist "commonwealth" was one of the pillars of the Empire that the Roman Republic built, that was able to withstand Hannibal's tremendous victories in Italy, precisely because of the forced convergence of interests of the people at the top of Italian society.
(Hannibal realized his danger and called home for large quantities of the Universal Solvent needed to liquefy the chains the Romans had forged: Silver. The Carthaginian businessmen [Chamber of Commerce] went behind the legislature's back to the supreme court, bribed the justices, and got the war taxes to support Hannibal thrown out. They stiffed him hard enough, that he couldn't even pay his troops. Sound familiar.... Dick Cheney?)
The Etruscans made Rome a city; the Romans made it a Mob, and the Roman Mob made it an Empire.
True fact. Read O. Spengler on the persistence of classical civilization into the modern age, if you doubt me.
It’s evident from their commercials which come off as those places that sing how “It’s your money, so give us a big cut and we’ll share it with you”. Even their claim that they will only charge you half of whatever you paid with a competitor have a caveat that they must charge a minimum of %75.
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