WSJ:
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. “The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier,” he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.
Some scary stories from musicians too.
How dare the feds pick on that old Gibson Guitar.
I’m gonna hide my violin before the Feds realize it was made in the 19th Century and probably has some ebony in the bow.
I have an old bass bow that has some ivory. I wasn’t planning any trips outside the country with it, but now I know to not even think about it.
Lets see,,,52 % of my tax dollars goes to making weapons to kill other Human Beings, Exon and GE made Billions and have TAX residuals,,Paid Zero federal Tax,,,and they raid Gibson Guitars? What was their crime? Too Liberal for them?
The wing nut right wing blogosphere is now claiming it was because GIbson contributed to the GOP and his opponent – a democrat of course – asked the FBI to harass them.
Pathetic.
Knowing the Holder DOJ, this must have been because the Gibson CEO said something critical of Obama.
Maybe this is the start of the single-coil and humbucker war…
52% of your tax dollars do NOT go to defense. Not even 52% of your federal income taxes. The DoD consumes just 18% of Federal outlays, even in the midst of 2 wars. Plus, your post has nothing to do with the story.
Elephant killer.
Why don’t you use a human femur bow like everyone else?
I don’t usually mention that one in public. Especially that it was I who hunted down The Most Dangerous Prey.
And it’s a non-union shop.
This ie exactly the case, If you don’t support the cronies on the left you are subject to this kind of treatment.
Have some more Kool Aid
Your denial and accusing the left for the tactics of the right is right out of 1984. “‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'”
I think the guys at PRS tipped off the Feds
Bruce, Businesses don’t really pay taxes anyway. When a government taxes a
business, the business just passes that cost on to the consumer when they
price their product.
If a business receives a tax break or figures out a way to avoid paying
taxes does that really hurt the consumer? Does it hurt you? Exxon Mobile employees upward of 31,000 people in the United States. GE employs 133,000 people in the United States. If these corporations make billions it is because they produce something that people buy. Would you prefer that Exxon and GE made no profit and therefore have no ability to keep people employed? Would you prefer to see all of those people out of work in order to satisfy your sense of economic justice?
Finally, My question to you is:
If you were able to legally avoid paying federal taxes, would you?
I would be willing to bet a year of FICA tax that your answer to the question above is yes……
I think it’s funny when left wingers accuse the right of wanting to establish an “Orwellian” big brother state. When in fact it is the Liberal left that seeks to establish laws which are much more invasive and restrictive of individuals rights.
I think it’s funny when left wingers accuse the right of wanting to establish an “Orwellian” big brother state. When in fact it is the Liberal left that seeks to establish laws which are much more invasive and restrictive of individuals rights.
So let me get this strait… The economy sucks, people are jobless and homeless, we have illegals and terrorist running around the country and we are all spending our hard earned taxes on seeing what type of wood a guitar is made of. Wow.
Yeah right, the Left brought us the TSA and that rape of our rights the so-called Patriot Act. that’s about as Orwellian as it gets.