Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert deliver a one-two punch this morning. Krugman wants to If you’re with them, you pay no penalty for being wrong. If you don’t tell them what they <\/P> Herbert writes: “When I asked how much Halliburton paid in federal income taxes last year, a Compare that amount to the billions of dollars Halliburton is earning from U.S. Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert deliver a one-two punch this morning. Krugman wants to know: “Where’s The Apology?” He doesn’t see any: “George Bush promised to bring honor and integrity back to the White House. Instead, he got rid of accountability.” Two key grafs: As far as I can tell, nobody in the Bush administration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nknow:
\n“George Bush promised to bring honor and integrity back to the White House. Instead, he got rid
\nof accountability.” Two key grafs:<\/P>
\nAs far as I can tell, nobody in the Bush administration has ever paid a price for
\nbeing wrong. Instead, people are severely punished for telling inconvenient truths. And
\nadministration officials have consistently sought to freeze out, undermine or intimidate anyone
\nwho might try to check up on their performance.
\n
\nwant to hear, you’re an enemy, and being right is no excuse.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>In
\navoidance of corporate income taxes by establishing off-shore tax shelters in the Cayman Islands,
\nBermuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Liechtenstein, and Vanadu.
\n
\n
\ncompany spokeswoman, Wendy Hall, said, ‘After foreign tax credit utilization, we paid just over
\n$15 million to the I.R.S. for our 2002 tax liability.'” <\/P>
\n
\ngovernment contracts in Iraq alone. And what a nice corporate phrase for a tax dodge:
\n“foreign tax credit utilization.” Give that woman a language transplant. The dodge is legal, of
\ncourse, but how about Halliburton’s “foreign bribe and overcharge utilization?”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"