Currents May 2016 May 2016 | Página 6

6 Currents May 2016 > continued from page 5 cans like Ted Cruz denounce the I.R.S., they empower corporate tax cheats. Because of I.R.S. cuts, the amount of time revenue agents spend auditing large companies has fallen by 34 percent since 2010. A Syracuse University analysis finds that the lost revenue from the decline in corporate audits may be as much as $15 billion a year - enough to make full-day pre-K universal. Meanwhile, no need to fret so much about welfare abuse in the inner city. The big problem of welfare dependency in America now involves entitled corporations. So let's help those moochers in business suits pick themselves up and stop sponging off the government.” ❏ Gene Suppell, Editor & Publisher