How regulations are designed?

How regulations are designed?

They are designed to be  complex  and to create compliance advocates.

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Because you have a weapon to fight a risky dollar currency fluctuation.

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Because according to the IRS 2009 Data Book, IRS workforce counts up 93,337 employees , 91,082 of which being full-time permanent.

Because according to the IRS :

IRS FY 2014 Shutdown Contingency Plan (Non-Filing Season)


Total number of employees expected to be employed prior to implementation of the shutdown plan (direct and reimbursable)
    94,516
(as of 09/07/2013)    

Why nobody blames himself?

Why nobody blames himself?

Because Washington exists

A new NBC/WSJ poll finds that 71 percent of adults believe the United States is on the wrong track, and 60 percent think we’re in a state of decline.

Roughly 70 percent pointed the finger of blame at political gridlock for the current state of the economy.

79 percent are just fed up with the political system in general.

Finding something new to justify an existence

Finding something new to justify an existence

Any government, any political institution, any bureaucracy will always find something new to justify its existence, whether or not it's needed.

Which is the most important customer of a company?

Which is the most important customer of a company?

Political patrons

What is productivity in Congress?

What is productivity in Congress?

H.R. 803 – Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
Sponsor: Rep Virginia Foxx (R-NC-5)

2/25/2013    Introduced in House


3/12/2013    House Education and Workforce Committee amends and passes it. 


3/15/2013    Three days later, it’s passed in the full House by a vote of 215 - 202

[15 months passes with no action in the Senate.]


6/25/2014    Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.


6/25/2014    Passed in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by a vote of 95 - 3.


7/9/2014      Resolving differences -- House passes the Senate-amended version by a vote of 415 – 6.


7/15/2014    Presented to President.


7/22/2014     Signed into law.