Mapping the Real Deal:
The Solari
Solution
The American Tapeworm (Part 2)
A Responsible Way to Fund America's
State and Local Government Deficits
or.. What To Do About The American Tapeworm
By
Catherine Austin Fitts
"God does not bless a
mess.”
---Bishop Alfred Owens
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The Solari
Solution “In a Nutshell”
Debt = War
Equity =
Peace
Learn How the Money Works
Vote With Our Time &
Money
Get the Missing Money Back
Make Our Place
Wonderful
Manage Our
Risk
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The American Tapeworm --
Debt Up, Equity Down & Out
The real deal in
US government financial matters today is that there are two
plans to finance the current government deficits.
The
first plan is the “American Tapeworm” model. ( See links below.) Under the leadership of
the Bush Administration (and before that, the Clinton
Administration) and with the support of Congress and the
Supreme Court, the American Tapeworm model is to simply
finance the federal deficit through warfare, currency
exports, Treasury and federal credit borrowing and cutbacks
in domestic “discretionary” spending.
The resulting state
and local deficits will then be financed with state and
local tax and user fee increases, cutbacks, employee layoffs
and increased borrowing. This will then place local
municipalities and local leadership in a highly vulnerable
position – one that will allow them to be persuaded with
bogus but high-minded sounding arguments to further cut
resources. Then, to “preserve bond ratings and the rights of
creditors,” our leaders can be persuaded to sell our water,
natural resources and infrastructure assets at significant
discounts of their true value to global investors. This
process of persuasion will be with a carrot and stick, the
carrot taking the form of a piece of the action and the
stick taking the form of the threat of targeting by smear
campaigns and covert operations.
Global investors will
purchase our discounted natural resources and infrastructure
by reinvesting the trillions of dollars that have been
stolen from our pension funds through dot.com and Enron-type
pump and dump fraud (the recent $1.4 billion settlement with
Wall Street indicated that investors have lost $8 trillion)
and through money stolen from federal accounts (for more on
the officially documented $3.3 trillion in “undocumentable
adjustments” from the Department of Defense (DOD) and $59
billion from Housing and Urban Development (HUD), see links below).
Global and
institutional investors will then experience significant
capital gains when multinational corporations raise the user
fees on basic services to Americans by many multiples. This
will all be described as a plan to “save America” by
recapitalizing it on a sound financial footing. In fact,
this process will simply shift more capital continuously
from America to other continents and from the lower and
middle classes to elites.
This parasitic plan is a
criminal leveraged buyout of America -- buying a country for
cheap with its own money and then jacking up the rents and
fees to steal the rest. It has an infinite rate of return
for the folks who are doing the stealing. It shifts equity
wealth to a few in a manner that shrinks total wealth. It is
the next step of the negative return on investment economy
perpetuated by syndicates like the investors, banks,
attorneys and senior managers of Enron, DynCorp and groups
like them described in my last Mapping the Real Deal
column, " The
American
Tapeworm."
******************** The Solari Solution -- Debt
Down, Equity Up & In
In contrast, the Solari
Solution, suggests that instead the American people should
simply seize back stolen federal funds through the power of
offsets. These offsets (which could take the form of, for
example, the local assumption of a federal obligation) would
be applied and managed by a locally created and controlled
solari. In fact, the legal construct used by the federal
government to try to destroy my company and me creates one
of the precedents that can be used to do so. ( See links below.)
One of the many reasons
that I am confident that the Solari plan works is the
ferocity with which the federal government has tried to
prevent me from implementing it. In an effort to destroy my
last company, the federal government seized our company
funds by “common law offset” whereby, without contract or
statutory authority, the government declined to pay
contractually-owed funds in the amount of the “offset,”
leaving us to file suit to recover the money legitimately
owed to us.
In other words, the government shifted the
burden of proof so that instead of the government
establishing in court that it had a claim to the money
(which it could not do), it put the burden on my company to
establish that the government had no such claim. If this
were not enough, to date, through administrative delaying
tactics and arguably illegal pressure through the courts,
the Department of Justice has succeeded in preventing any
case from going to trial for over five years, during which
the government has control and use of our money. I suggest
that we adopt this precedent the federal government and
judiciary has now created to shut off the American Tapeworm
once and for all.
The chart below
lists annual federal individual tax payments as of FY1999
and our resident population. An American resident’s pro rata
share of $3.3 trillion of undocumentable adjustments (that
is approximately $11,700 per American) from the Department
of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) is approximately twice your 1999 tax
bite.
If you multiply the 1999 individual tax payments in
your state times two and compare that to what you are being
told about your current state and local deficits you will
notice one thing no matter where you live -- if we bring
transparency to federal accounts and hold the federal
government legally responsible for compliance with the laws
that require audited financial statements and reliable
financial systems, there will be plenty left over both to
fund your state and local deficits and to properly
capitalize (through the use of locally controlled solaris)
attractive municipal asset privatizations and infrastructure
and small business investment.
In addition to
reengineering government investment locally and the flow of
equity capital to small business and locally controlled
privatization transactions, the Solari Solution
significantly increases both individual and total wealth and
restores the positive return-on-investment economy. This is
how we can address our overhang of debt and
liabilities.
More on how to do that is described in my
recent Mapping the Real Deal column, “
Solari Rising,” and the links therein. (
See links below.)
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The California Example
Let's look at an
example so we can understand the power of the Solari
Solution to solve our most pressing problems.
In FY 1999,
according to IRS data, California residents and those making
individual payments on their behalf paid approximately $185
billion in individual taxes. That means that Californians
citizens’ pro rata share of the missing $3.3 trillion at the
Department of Defense and approximately $59 billion missing
at Housing & Urban Development is approximately $370
billion. According to recent reports, California's deficit
is approximately $35 billion. That means if California
simply had access to its share of the missing money (through
a solari-type offset or otherwise), it could fund the
current state deficit for ten years.
It sounds to me like
there ought to be a lot of attorneys in California willing
to get together over at the Chamber of Commerce or the Farm
Bureau and figure out how to start a solari and use it to
ensure that our tax dollars are managed in accordance with
the law in a manner that preserves jobs, pays for health
care and builds local
equity.
******************** Real Cash
Flowing Out of Through the Tapeworm’s Criminal Enterprise
When discussing this plan, I hear numerous
comments as to why we can't do the Solari Solution and
should keep sending $5,000 plus a year per person to the US
federal governmental apparatus even though approximately 85%
is going to agencies who under corporate guidelines would
loose their ability to issue securities as they were deemed
not worthy of playing with other people’s moneys under the
law and stock exchange guidelines.
First, the arguments
go, the $3.3 trillion in undocumentable adjustments are
accounting adjustments and no cash is necessarily missing.
This is good spin – but it is not true. When a large
organization has had all the time and money in the world to
comply with basic legal standards of transparency and
fiduciary management and has systematically refused to do so
and moreover indicates that it is severely troubled and
cannot account for its money, we know there is fraud.
It
is likewise a form of fraud on Americans for the federal
government to tolerate federal financial officers’ failure
to produce audited financial statements as required by law,
to pay billions of dollars to defense contractors for the
creation and management of federal financial systems that
result in no audit trail, no reliable financial controls,
and the continued employment of these same contractors
following repeated failures to perform. If the law were
applied to these bare facts, this is gross negligence
constituting criminal fraud even before exploring the issue
of how much cash is missing and where it went.
The $3.3
trillion of undocumentable adjustments surely is an
unreliable number, since it is produced by an unreliable
source (i.e., the federal financial statement). The federal
books have been cooked in a manner that is significantly
outside the boundaries of the law. But be assured that when
the government makes “undocumentable adjustments against
Treasury” in the trillions of dollars, this is
government-speak for theft of real taxpayer money. As a
leader of the movement advocating transparency in federal
accounts, I and my company have been systematically targeted
for eight years and my company's private software tools
designed to bring transparency were seized and, as a
practical matter, destroyed by agents of the federal
government.
I have documented numerous examples of
intentional policies that cause the Federal Housing
Administration accounts at HUD to lose billions of fund
monies unnecessarily. Why are they doing this? Because the
policies they are using make it easier to steal -- that's
why! When this much time and money is spent trying to
destroy the credibility of the people bringing transparency,
it is because transparency is feared greatly.
My worse
fears of the illegality of the government financial
operations were confirmed when the chief of staff to the
chairman of the HUD appropriations committee told me in the
summer of 2000 that HUD was being run "as a criminal
enterprise." HUD can only be run as a criminal enterprise if
the Department of Treasury, the Department of Justice, the
NY Fed as depository and a group of contractors like
Lockheed, DynCorp, AMS, & JP Morgan Chase run it as a
criminal enterprise.
If the lead attorneys and accountants
for the US government are running HUD as a criminal
enterprise, that means that the US government is being run
as a criminal enterprise. In short, the accounting, finances
and the securities issuance operations of the US government
are part of a criminal
enterprise.
******************** The Power
of the Federal Credit in the Hands of a Criminal Enterprise
Another comment that I hear is that $3.3
trillion is more than could possibly have been stolen in
three years, given the flow of taxes and the size of the
budgets at the DOD and HUD. This is not correct. The nature
of the federal apparatus is such that theft of such an
amount can be organized with relatively little cash using
the federal credit: through the continuously recycled
purchase of federal guaranteed securities such as Treasury
debt, Ginnie Mae securities and other federal credit assets.
We have a securities issuance operation not constrained
by reliable systems or transparency. We have computer and
accounting systems under the control of private corporations
and banks with no provision to insure information
sovereignty by government employees. We have leading banks
like JP Morgan-Chase engaging in alleged fraudulent
transactions such as secured debt issuance without
perfection of collateral liens and manipulation of the
international gold market. In short, we have all the
conditions necessary for a financial coup d'etat.
How do we know how much federal credit has been issued and
is trading in the market place?
Without legally required
and reliable audited financial statements and systems, we
have no way of knowing the true state of federal financial
affairs. Without an accurate account and servicing by
unbiased and independent professionals, we have no basis to
believe that the federal government has not engaged in
significant over-issuance of securities and other types of
securities fraud. Until we have audited financial statements
from reliable auditors produced from systems created,
managed and controlled by government employees reasonably
protected from covert operations and “control files”,
America is a financial banana republic whose securities are
ripe for de-listing by global
investors.
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Indecent Excuses
Indeed, the excuses for the failure to provide
Americans with the audited financial statements,
place-based reporting and intelligible contracting budgets
grow ever more offensive.
The reasons given by the Army
for the failure to comply with the requirement for audited
financial statements in 2001 was due to, "the loss of
financial management personnel sustained during the
September 11 terrorist attack." Hence, the US military
cannot stop terrorist attacks despite prior warnings, then
can not protect their own headquarters an hour after the
first act of war, but are rewarded with an increase in
appropriations of $48 billion. Despite being flush with so
much new cash, they have been so devastated by the impact of
9-11 on their financial operations, which are located in
another state, that they can not produce financial
statements a year later.
Are you willing to endure
further cutbacks in local services and sales of natural
resources that our very lives depend on in order to turn
over another year of tax payments to a group that comes up
with such implausible explanations? Or does this sound like
a good time to get with local attorneys about our right as
localities to create local federal tax set-asides under
common or statutory law. Its time for local management and
oversight of local expenses.
How many contractors are
earning $25-250 a hour for jobs we can do excellently in our
own community for much less? How about retiring our pro-rata
share of the federal debt until the federal government can
produce financial statements that account for all the
federal cash and credit we have generated since 1995, when
federal laws went into effect to require proper financial
and accounting disclosure? What would the IRS do to you if
YOU had refused to produce accurate financial statements to
the federal government since 1995? I suspect you would be in
jail.
Holding the federal government accountable to obey
the law and to obey the most basic principles of fiduciary
management and Judeo-Christian stewardship sounds like a
better plan to me than cutbacks, issuing IOUs and selling
our drinking water and other natural
resources.
******************** Flushing Out
the American Tapeworm
America does not have
deficits -- we have a white-collar crime drain that is a
financial tapeworm.
Let's stop the drain and get
back the money that has been siphoned off by criminals to
offshore and private bank accounts.
Let's not allow more
hard earned funds to be drained out of our bank and pension
fund accounts and lost through dollar devaluation.
Let us
refuse to sell off our water and other precious natural
resources to private investors who will jack up our water
and utility bills by 1000% the way they have done in Latin
America and Eastern Europe as global financial predators
move in for their economic warfare kill.
The federal
government refuses to obey the law. That is the definition
of a criminal. The federal government is engaged in gross
negligence and criminal enterprise. My story and the missing
$3.36 trillion proves it . The federal government's
criminality is disobedient to all principles of fiduciary
soundness and stewardship -- whether under the laws of the
United States, the standards of global investment, or the
spiritual principles of Judeo-Christian and other world
religions.
Tell your Congressional Representatives
you are voting for the Solari Solution -- and tell them to
get your money back now.
But don't wait for
them.
Organize a solari. Find your local attorneys
and determine what rights of set-aside and escrow are
appropriate for us as citizens to ensure that our tax money
is managed directly by us under local control for proper
governmental purposes in compliance with the law.
Vote now
for the Solari Solution.
********* ENDS
***********The Solari Solution:
http://blog.lege.net/content/Mapping_the_Real_Deal__The_American_Tapeworm__Part_3.html
To
Vote online for the Solari Solution:
http://www.solari.com/vote.php
The
American Tapeworm:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0304/S00228.htm
For
Links on the DynCorp-Enron Economy & the $3.3 Trillion
Missing Money:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0304/S00158.htm
Background
for Tennessee Citizens on Our Missing Money
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00031.htm#a
Background
on Federal Efforts to Stop the Solari Model:
http://www.solari.com
To
Vote online for the Solari Solution:
http://www.solari.com/vote.php
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APPENDIX II - ANNUAL TAXES TO AGENCIES NOT IN
COMPLIANCE
by
Catherine Austin
Fitts
May 22, 2002
***************** US
CITIZENS HAVE ALREADY LOST....
Two of the agencies
that cannot produce working financial systems, DOD and HUD,
have reported $3.3 trillion of undocumentable adjustments
for fiscal 1998, 1999 and 2000. That works out to about $11,
700 per US resident, based on April 2000 census of
281,421,906 Americans.
Every year, approximately 85% of
our taxes go to agencies that, according to the most recent
reports of the oversight committees, did not have reliable
financial systems and audited financial statements.
US
CITIZENS ARE SENDING INTO A FINANCIAL BLACK
HOLE....
USA AVERAGE
Residents (April 2000 census):
281,421,906
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $1.6
trillion
Taxes per Resident: $5,688
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,835
IF YOU LIVE IN ALABAMA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 4,447,100
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$15.9 billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 3,572
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,078
IF YOU LIVE IN ALASKA
Residents (April
2000 census): 626,932
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $2.7
billion
Taxes per Resident: $4,290
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,750
IF YOU LIVE IN ARIZONA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 5,130,632
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$19.2 billion
Taxes per Resident: $3,749
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,234
IF YOU LIVE IN ARKANSAS
Residents
(April 2000 census): 2,673,400
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$12. 3 billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 4,598
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,983
IF YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 33,871,648
1999 IRS Individual
Taxes: $185.2 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,467
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,724
IF YOU LIVE IN COLORADO
Residents
(April 2000 census): 4,301,261
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$29.4 billion
Taxes per Resident: $6,833
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$5,916
IF YOU LIVE IN CONNECTICUT
Residents
(April 2000 census): 3,405,565
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$31.4 billion
Taxes per Resident: $9,232
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$7,959
IF YOU LIVE IN DELAWARE
Residents
(April 2000 census): 783,600
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$6.1 billion
Taxes per Resident: $7,810
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$6,706
IF YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 15,982,378
1999 IRS Individual
Taxes: $ 76.5 billion
Taxes per Resident: $4,787
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,136
IF YOU LIVE IN GEORGIA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 8,186,453
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$43.6 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,324
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,595
IF YOU LIVE IN HAWAII
Residents (April
2000 census): 1,211,537
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $4.8
billion
Taxes per Resident: $3,947
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,424
IF YOU LIVE IN IDAHO
Residents (April
2000 census): 1,293,953
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $5.4
billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 4,197
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,633
IF YOU LIVE IN ILLINOIS
Residents
(April 2000 census): 12,419,293
1999 IRS Individual
Taxes: $90.7 billion
Taxes per Resident: $7,304
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$6,314
IF YOU LIVE IN INDIANA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 6,080,485
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$29.7 billion
Taxes per Resident: $4,880
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,207
IF YOU LIVE IN IOWA
Residents (April
2000 census): 2,926,324
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $12.1
billion
Taxes per Resident: $4,145
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,591
IF YOU LIVE IN KANSAS
Residents (April
2000 census): 2,688,418
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $13.7
billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,086
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,372
IF YOU LIVE IN KENTUCKY
Residents
(April 2000 census): 4,041,769
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 14.8 billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 3,671
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,182
IF YOU LIVE IN LOUISIANA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 4,468,976
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 13.6 billion
Taxes per Resident: $3,034
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$2,630
IF YOU LIVE IN MAINE
Residents (April
2000 census): 1,274,923
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $4.5
billion
Taxes per Resident: $3,531
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,037
IF YOU LIVE IN MARYLAND & DC
Residents
(April 2000 census): 5,868,545
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 44.9 billion
Taxes per Resident: $7,658
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$6,622
IF YOU LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS
Residents
(April 2000 census): 6,349,097
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 50.9 billion
Taxes per Resident: $8,022
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$6,926
IF YOU LIVE IN MICHIGAN
Residents
(April 2000 census): 9,938,444
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 63.7 billion
Taxes per Resident: $6,406
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$5,538
IF YOU LIVE IN MINNESOTA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 4,919,479
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 42.8 billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 8,694
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per Resident...$
7,506
IF YOU LIVE IN MISSISSIPPI
Residents (April 2000
census): 2,844.658
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $ 8.0
billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 2,824
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$2,430
IF YOU LIVE IN MISSOURI
Residents
(April 2000 census): 5,595,211
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$33.2 billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 5,926
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$5,116
IF YOU LIVE IN MONTANA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 902,195
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$2.7 billion
Taxes per Resident: $2,984
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$2,605
IF YOU LIVE IN NEBRASKA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 1,711,263
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$9.8 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,701
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,929
IF YOU LIVE IN NEVADA
Residents (April
2000 census): 1,998,257
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $9.6
billion
Taxes per Resident: $4,811
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,152
IF YOU LIVE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Residents
(April 2000 census): 1,235,786
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$6.3 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,047
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,364
IF YOU LIVE IN NEW JERSEY
Residents
(April 2000 census): 8,414,350
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$69.4 billion
Taxes per Resident: $8,250
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$7,133
F YOU LIVE IN NEW MEXICO
Residents
(April 2000 census): 1,819,046
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$5.5 billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 3,007
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$2,584
IF YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK
Residents
(April 2000 census): 18,976,457
1999 IRS Individual
Taxes: $ 145.8 billion
Taxes per Resident: $7,681
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$6,639
IF YOU LIVE IN NORTH
CAROLINA
Residents (April 2000 census): 8,049,313
1999
IRS Individual Taxes: $35.4 billion
Taxes per Resident:
$4,394
2002 Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies
Without Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,797
IF YOU LIVE IN NORTH DAKOTA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 642,200
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$2.4 billion
Taxes per Resident: $3,690
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,230
IF YOU LIVE IN OHIO
Residents (April
2000 census): 11,353,140
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $
66.7 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,876
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$5,079
IF YOU LIVE IN OREGON
Residents (April
2000 census): 3,421,399
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $ 16.1
billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 4,687
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,042
IF YOU LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 12,281,054
1999 IRS Individual
Taxes: $70.6 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,751
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,966
IF YOU LIVE IN RHODE ISLAND
Residents
(April 2000 census): 1,048,319
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$5.5 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,288
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,617
IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTH
CAROLINA
Residents (April 2000 census): 4,012,012
1999
IRS Individual Taxes: $15.8 billion
Taxes per Resident:
$3,943
2002 Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies
Without Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,412
IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTH DAKOTA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 754,844
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$3.0 billion
Taxes per Resident: $3,999
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,481
IF YOU LIVE IN TENNESSEE
Residents
(April 2000 census): 5,689,283
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 29.4 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,175
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,472
IF YOU LIVE IN TEXAS
Texas Residents
(April 2000 census): 20,851,820
1999 IRS Individual
Taxes: $104.4 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,007
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,324
IF YOU LIVE IN UTAH
Residents (April
2000 census): 2,233,169
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $ 8.8
billion
Taxes per Resident: $ 3,934
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per Resident...$
3,406
IF YOU LIVE IN VERMONT
Residents (April 2000
census): 608,827
1999 IRS Individual Taxes: $2.5
billion
Taxes per Resident: $4,109
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,634
IF YOU LIVE IN VIRGINIA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 7,078,515
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 40.1 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,667
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4904
IF YOU LIVE IN WASHINGTON
Residents
(April 2000 census): 5,894,121
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$ 38.4 billion
Taxes per Resident: $6,521
2002
Proposed Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$5,631
IF YOU LIVE IN WEST VIRGINIA
Residents
(April 2000 census): 1,808,344
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$4.4 billion
Taxes per Resident: $2,434
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$2,064
IF YOU LIVE IN WISCONSIN
Residents
(April 2000 census): 5,363,675
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$28.6 billion
Taxes per Resident: $5,340
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$4,615
IF YOU LIVE IN WYOMING
Residents
(April 2000 census): 493,782
1999 IRS Individual Taxes:
$1.9 billion
Taxes per Resident: $3,976
2002 Proposed
Appropriations to Federal Agencies Without
Reliable
Financial Systems and/or Audits per
Resident...$3,360
BASED ON
Audit reports and
testimony by federal agency inspectors general and the
General Accounting Office for federal fiscal 1998-2000,
"report cards" from Congressman Horn's subcommittee of the
House Government Reform Committee and Chairman Thompson's
report on Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, "Government
on the Brink."
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