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Fellow transplant surgeons speculate that the FDA crackdown may have been triggered by complaints from commercial drug companies. These companies, the thinking goes, were annoyed that their university-based competitor was selling an experimental drug as if it had been approved for full marketing. Or it may be that regulators, who sent letters to Najarian complaining of infractions, were unwilling to cut off the supply of a drug that filled such a desperate need. Whatever the reason, by the time the fda barred ALG production in 1992, two drugs capable of taking its place had come on the market...
...says IRS commissioner Margaret Richardson. But she adds, "I think people are more concerned about fraud in the system, and they need an advocate so that everyone pays their fair share." Martin Freeman, a tax preparer in Chicago Heights, Illinois, reports that most of his clients support the IRS crackdown. "They know the new rules are cutting down on fraud," he says. The IRS points out that 98% of all tax returns this year will not get audited; rejections because of errors affect only 20% of electronic filers and 3% of paper filers. Moreover, says the IRS, the tax code...
...crackdown on electronic filing has struck hardest at the very class the Clinton Administration has held up as the main focus of its good intentions: the working poor. For example, a worker with two or more qualifying children who earns less than $25,296 a year, is eligible for an earned-income credit of as much as $2,528. The credit operates as a sort of "negative tax," available to workers too poor to owe income tax and is intended to make work more attractive than welfare. The credit, however, has been susceptible to fraud. In order to catch...
Like good revolutionaries, top Republican lawmakers and thinkers see this crackdown by the ancien ragime at the IRS as a sign of its desperation and imminent collapse. "When you get to the point where you have government snooping in people's drawers and talking to neighbors, you know that something has gone desperately wrong with the system," says Stephen Moore, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute. Representative Bill Archer of Texas, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, observes that the irs stirs more resentment than ever because "it has been given more power, more penalties...
...what Yeltsin's government is going to do about it; a failure to bring crime under control could cost not only the President his job but also Russia its whole experiment with democracy. The unremitting violence and growing loss of confidence could produce sudden political swings, toward a dictatorial crackdown on civil liberties or away from Yeltsin's government...