A much anticipated and timely encyclical. How to implement it ?

jeudi 5 août 2010

La Californie "en défaut", la fraude mondiale empire.

La banque Lehman Brothers a bénéficié de la complicité du Trésor américain et de la Fed pour masquer ses pertes, en détournant des outils financiers "complexes"...

AIG, Repo, Enron...

Rapport de plus de 2000 pages établissant les faits.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcl7sq_lehman-brothers-fraude-gigantesque_news

"Les banques américaines maquillent leurs comptes"

Tout le système financier est encore pourri.

Une nouvelle crise arrive car rien de fondamental n'a changé.

Les complices sont achetés par des salaires et des bonus énormes:

avocats/juges/auditeurs/agences de notations/ banques/gouvernements/media/tv. 
 
Ceux qui croient que les complots n'existent plus, devraient réviser leur aveuglement.

La FED laisse faire et encourage.

Dans quel but ? 

Comme dans tous complots: "Argent et pouvoir".

Mais enfin, nous aurons toujours des incrédules pour croire que nous exagérons...

Avec eux, les conspirateurs peuvent dormir tranquilles. Combien de morts ? Des millions...

What the State Controller Can and Cannot Pay Without an Enacted Budget (August 2010)

State Controller warrant envelope

As the State of California's chief fiscal officer, I have created this new Web page to outline what bills my office can and cannot pay during the month of August 2010 until a State budget is enacted for the 2010-11 fiscal year which began July 1. Please be assured that I will continue to do everything within my authority to continue to provide payments for essential services. I also invite you to read the letter  on this subject that I have written to the Governor and Legislators.

For example, my office will continue to make the following payments:

  • Federally-mandated services such as Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP), and In-Home Support Services.
  • Debt service and other payments required by the State Constitution.
  • Vendor payments for services provided in the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
  • Expenses with ongoing appropriations from the Legislature, including income tax refunds and payments on claims for unclaimed property.
  • Payroll for state employees covered by the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

However, a number of constitutional and legal restrictions prevent me from making certain other types of payments without an enacted budget. For example, my office cannot pay:

  • School districts for categorical programs such as special education and remedial summer school, community colleges, local governments and other entities not included in the above parameters.
  • Vendors for services provided after July 1.
  • Salaries and per diem of state elected officials and their appointed staff.

I invite you to view more details of these major categories, and the range of funds involved, as shown in the tables below. We can avoid or reduce additional financial pressure on our schools, community colleges and private businesses that provide state services if a budget is enacted in a timely manner.

Please note the estimated figures on this page will be updated as new information becomes available, or if it becomes necessary to include data for September or later months. Estimates are based upon figures in the Governor's May Budget Revision, Pooled Money Investment Board payment schedules, prior year expenditures, the Governor's budget and proposed budget legislation.  (Information for the month of July can be found on our previously posted July 2010 estimated payments page.)



Education
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
University of California (Payroll) $12,650 -- August 31
UC (non-Payroll Expenses) $843 $3,373 Various
Community College Payments -- $284,109 August 27
K-12 Monthly Apportionment $3,279,721 -- August 27
K-12 Monthly Apportionment (Categoricals) -- $130,000 August 27
Nutrition -- $35,143 Various
Child Development (Other) -- $82,843 Various
Child Development
(CalWORKS Stage II)
$36,635 -- Various
Child Development (CalWORKS Stage III)
-- $32,781 Various



Payments to Individuals
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Unemployment, Disability and Worker's Compensation $1,780,000 -- Daily
Lottery Winners $66,238 -- Daily
Income Tax Refunds $205,321 -- Daily
Cal-Grants -- $230,596 Various
Unclaimed Property Claims $23,000 -- Various
Worker's Compensation $600,000 -- Various



Trial Courts
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Pay and Benefits (Including Judges) $184,044 -- August 13
Non-Payroll Expenses -- $19,888 Daily



Debt Service
Month of July 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Debt Service $516,216 -- August 2



Payments to Vendors
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Transportation Revolving Fund (Transportation Expenditures) $503,949 $167,983 Daily
Transportation Revolving Fund (Monthly Contract Payments) $267,000 -- August 2
Electric Power Fund $301,557 -- Daily
Other Miscellaneous $328,710 $446,497 Daily



Medi-Cal
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Non-Institutional Providers (Including AIDS Drug Assistance Program) $924,982 -- Various
Institutional Providers* $1,346,664 $448,888 Various

*Without a budget, up to $2 billion in State and Federal funds may be paid to Institutional Providers of Medi-Cal Services and Regional Centers for services provided between July 1 and September 1. However, due to the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, hospitals and nursing homes also will be paid without a Budget in 2010.




Social Services
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Cal-WORKS
(Stage I)
$1,335,999 -- Various
County Administration -- $21,063 August 13
In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) $127,969 -- August 13
Other Social Services Programs $136,714 -- August 13
Developmental Services - Regional Centers** -- $266,192 Various
State Payment for SSI / SSP $231,000 -- August 31

**Without a budget, up to $2 billion in State and Federal funds may be paid to Institutional Providers of Medi-Cal Services and Regional Centers for services provided between July 1 and September 1. However, due to the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, hospitals and nursing homes also will be paid without a Budget in 2010.




Local Government
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Vehicle License Fee $11,200 -- August 10
Public Safety Sales Tax $176,240 -- August 27
Sales Tax $680,910 -- August 25
Health and Welfare Realignment $261,807 -- August 27
Highway User Tax $0 -- --



State Employees' Pay and Benefits (including CSU)
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Civil Service Staff (employees and manager)*** $1,822,042 -- Daily / Sept. 1
Appointees and Other Exempt Employees -- $4,508 Daily / Sept. 1
Legislative Employees -- $16,000 Every two weeks
Legislators -- $936 Daily / Sept. 1
Statewide Elected Officials -- $70 Daily / Sept. 1

***Includes impact of furloughs




Retirees (PERS and STRS)
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category Can Be Paid Cannot Be Paid Scheduled Payment Date
Employer Retirement Benefits (Quarterly) (Paid quarterly - no August payment) -- --
Benefits (Paid quarterly - no August payment) -- --


ESTIMATED TOTALS FOR AUGUST 2010
Month of August 2010 Estimates with No Budget
(Amounts in Thousands)
Category CAN BE PAID CANNOT BE PAID Scheduled Payment Date
TOTALS $15,161,411 $2,190,870 VARIOUS


Chiang estimated he can legally pay $15.16 billion of the state's bills this month, even without a budget.

solutions:

lundi 2 août 2010

Some UBS Clients pleaded guilty

Offshore Tax-Avoidance and IRS Compliance Efforts

 

The IRS continues to uncover abusive tax-avoidance schemes involving offshore activity. Find information here pertaining to Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS).

Aug. 19, 2009, Announcement and Documents

IRS to Receive Unprecedented Amount of Information in UBS Agreement (News Release 2009-75)

Excerpts from IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman's Press Remarks

U.S.-Swiss Government Agreement | Declarations | Bank Agreement

Some UBS Clients pleaded guilty

July 1, 2010 — Leonid Zaltsberg, of Milltown, N.J., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for 2003 and failing to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts (FBAR). In his plea agreement, Zatlsberg admitted failing to disclose the existence of a Swiss bank account on his tax returns for the years 2000 through 2006 and concealing over $2 million in his Swiss account.

April 15, 2010 — In Manhattan, N.Y., seven UBS clients were indicted for collectively hiding over $100 million in secret Swiss bank accounts. Two of these individuals, Jules Robbins and Federico Hernandez, pleaded guilty and agreed to pay civil penalties of $20.8 million and $4.4 million, respectively. The remaining indicted clients were Kenneth Heller, Sybil Nancy Upham, Richard Werdiger, Ernest Vogliano and Shmuel Sternfeld.
 
April 13, 2010 — Paul Zabczuk, of The Woodlands, Texas, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return wherein he failed to report his interest in or signature authority over financial accounts at UBS AG. Zabczuk was sentenced on July 27, 2010, to three years of supervised release with one year served in home detention and 150 hours community service. In addition, Zabczuk was ordered to file accurate tax returns and pay all taxes, interest and penalties due and owing to the IRS. 
 
April 12, 2010 — Harry Abrahamsen, of Oradell, N.J., pleaded guilty to failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts (FBAR) report. Abrahamsen admitted that he concealed over $1 million in Swiss bank accounts.

Feb. 4, 2010 — Jack Barouh of Golden Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return. Barouh admitted to filing a false tax return for 2007 in which he failed to report a foreign bank account. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay all taxes, interest and penalties due and owing.

Oct. 5, 2009 — Roberto Cittadini of Bellevue, Wash., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return and admitted to concealing nearly $2 million in Swiss bank accounts. Cittadini, a retired sales manager for Boeing, failed to file a Report Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts for 2001 through 2003. Cittadini was sentenced on Jan. 8, 2010, to six months home detention and one year supervised release and was ordered to pay a $10,000 fee and $17,985 in restitution.

Sept. 25, 2009 — Juergen Homann of Saddle River, N. J., pleaded guilty to failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank or Financial Accounts and accepted responsibility for concealing more than $5 million in Swiss bank accounts. Homann was sentenced on Jan. 6, 2010, to five years probation and was ordered to pay a $60,000 fine.

Aug. 14, 2009 — John McCarthy of Malibu, Calif., pleaded guilty to failing to inform the government of a Swiss bank account as part of a scheme to move at least $1 million from the United States into Swiss bank accounts with the goal of avoiding the payment of federal income taxes. McCarthy was sentenced on March 22, 2010, to three years of supervised release with six months served in home detention and 300 hours community service. In addition, he was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine and to file tax returns for 2003 through 2008 and pay all taxes due and owing.

July 28, 2009 — Jeffrey P. Chernick of Stanfordville, N.Y., pleaded guilty to charges of filing a false tax return. Chernick, who owns a corporation which represents toy manufacturers in China and Hong Kong, accepted responsibility for concealing more than $8 million in Swiss bank accounts. Chernick was sentenced on Oct. 30, 2009, to three months in prison and one year of supervised release with six months served in home detention.

June 25, 2009 — UBS client Steven Michael Rubinstein of Boca Raton, Fla., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for tax year 2004. On April 1, 2009, Rubinstein was charged with filing a false tax return that intentionally failed to disclose the existence of a Swiss bank account maintained by UBS of which he was the beneficial owner and failed to report any income earned on that account. Rubinstein was sentenced on Oct. 28, 2009, to three years probation, of which 12 months will be served in home detention.
 
April 14, 2009 — Robert Moran of Lighthouse Point, Fla., pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging him with filing a false income tax return. Moran accepted responsibility for concealing more than $3 million in assets in a secret bank account at UBS in Switzerland. Moran was sentenced on Nov. 6, 2009, to two months in prison and one year of supervised release with five months in home confinement.

Legal Actions to Date

Aug. 21, 2009 — Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison. Birkenfeld worked as a private banker for UBS AG and assisted an American billionaire real estate developer evade paying $7.2 million in taxes.

Aug. 20, 2009 — Hansruedi Schumacher and Matthias Rickenbach were indicted for conspiring to assist wealthy American clients conceal their assets by establishing sham offshore entities. Schumacher was an executive manager at Neue Zuercher Bank (NZB), a private Swiss bank. Rickenbach was a Swiss attorney who advised U.S. clients.

Aug. 19, 2009 —  The Justice Department and the IRS today announced that an agreement has been reached with the Swiss government regarding the John Doe summons filed against UBS on June 30, 2008. 

Feb. 18, 2009 — UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, entered into a deferred prosecution agreement on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by impeding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
 
Nov. 12, 2008 — Raoul Weil, a senior executive of a large Swiss bank, was charged with conspiring with other executives, managers, private bankers and clients of the banking firm to defraud the United States.
 
June 30, 2008 — The Justice Department filed papers seeking an order from a federal court in Miami, Fla., authorizing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to use a John Doe summons to request information from Zurich, Switzerland-based UBS AG about U.S. taxpayers who may be using Swiss bank accounts to evade federal income taxes.
 
May 13, 2008 — Banker Mario Staggl was indicted for conspiring with banker Bradley Birkenfeld to assist an American billionaire real estate developer evade paying $7.2 million in taxes by assisting in concealing $200 million of assets in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Dec. 12, 2007 — Igor Olenicoff, president and owner of Olen Properties Corporation, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for tax year 2002 related to foreign bank accounts he failed to disclose to the IRS. As part of his plea agreement, Olenicoff paid $52 million to the IRS for six years of back taxes, penalties and interest. Olenicoff was sentenced in April 2008, in Santa Ana, Calif., to two years probation and 120 hours of community service.    

 http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=110092,00.html

 


Page Last Reviewed or Updated: August 02, 2010

Démocratie directe: les travaux menés par les professeurs Feld et Kirchgässner


 

Démocratie directe: les travaux menés par les professeurs Feld et Kirchgässner ont montré en étudiant les résultats des référendums financiers aux USA et dans les cantons suisses que là où la démocratie directe existe, les impôts et les dépenses publiques sont un tiers plus bas que dans les pays où la démocratie est purement représentative. L'endettement est de moitié plus faible."...


Reprise du Blog de M. Francis Richard 


Week-end de la libertéDu 2 au 4 juillet 2010 avait lieu le week-end de la liberté, organisé à St Paul-lès-Dax par le Cercle Frédéric Bastiat ici sur le thème : Vers l'Etat libéral ici.

 

Votre serviteur y assistait et a été vivement intéressé par les différents exposés des orateurs qui sont intervenus : Jacques de Guenin, président du Cercle, Patrick de Casanove, prochain président du Cercle,Françoise Thom, professeur d'histoire à la Sorbonne, Pierre Garello, professeur d'économie à l'Université d'Aix-Marseille,Alain Mathieu, président de Contribuables Associés, Benoîte Taffin, porte-parole de Contribuables Associés, Vincent Ginocchio, président de Liberté Chérie, Yvan Blot, haut fonctionnaire, et François Garçon, maître de conférences à la Sorbonne.

 

Parmi tous ces exposés, tous plus brillants les uns que les autres, il en est un qui a retenu particulièrement mon attention, celui d'Yvan Blot sur la démocratie directe. Pourquoi ? Parce que je vis dans un pays où la démocratie directe est pratiquée depuis plus de 150 ans et que j'ai été heureux d'apprendre que les droits populaires avaient été repris peu ou prou à travers le monde dans d'autres pays que le Lichtenstein ou les Etats-Unis.

 

Yvan Blot est français, ancien élève de l'ENA - nobody is perfect -, docteur es Sciences Economiques. Il est haut fonctionnaire, mais il a aussi exercé de nombreux et divers mandats politiques : conseiller général, député à l'Assemblée nationale, député au Parlement européen, conseiller régional. Depuis 10 ans maintenant il a abandonné la politique pour se consacrer à sa carrière dans l'administration, écrire - son dernier ouvrage a pour sujetHerbert Spencer -, enseigner, à l'université de Nice.

 

Sur le sujet de la démocratie directe Yvan Blot anime le sitehttp://www.democratiedirecte.fr/, qui a tout juste un an d'existence. Il est également président de l'association Agir pour la démocratie directe (A2D) . Sous le titre Pourquoi la démocratie directe ?, les grandes lignes de l'exposé, fait à St Paul-lès-Dax le dimanche 4 juillet, s'y trouvent d'ailleurs et permettent de se rendre compte de l'intérêt de cette forme de démocratie, complémentaire de la démocratie représentative. En Suisse, par exemple, le parlement n'est pas tenu à l'écart quand une initiative populaire aboutit, puisque le parlement peut voter un contre-projet qui sera soumis en même temps que l'initiative populaire aux suffrages des citoyens :

 

"La démocratie directe organise plutôt une saine concurrence entre les citoyens et les élus pour faire les lois : personne ne doit être exclu alors que la démocratie représentative pure exclut les citoyens de la fonction législative."

 

Yvan Blot rappelle justement que la démocratie directe peut revêtir deux formes essentielles :

 

"Le référendum veto et l'initiative populaire, un frein et un moteur."

 

C'est-à-dire la possibilité d'annuler une loi votée par le parlement et la possibilité de proposer une loi "sur un sujet que le gouvernement ou le parlement ignorent ou ont peur d'aborder".

 

Comme beaucoup j'avais entendu parler de la Proposition 13 en Californie qui à la faveur d'une initiative populaire, votée en 1978, a permis de limiter là-bas la taxation des propriétés foncières, mais je ne savais pas que la démocratie directe était apparue pour la première fois en 1898 dans le Dakota du Sud et qu'aujourd'hui 26 états fédérés la pratiquaient au niveau de l'état et au niveau local. Elle n'existe cependant toujours pas au niveau fédéral. Hormis la réduction d'impôts des référendums y ont eu lieu sur "la protection de l'environnement, la lutte contre la criminalité, la peine de mort, l'avortement ou l'enseignement".

 

J'ignorais que la démocratie directe était pratiquée en Allemagne :

 

"Depuis la réunification allemande du 3 octobre 1990, la démocratie directe a été progressivement introduite dans tous les Länder allemands et souvent aussi au niveau communal." 

 

On y a voté sur "les lois électorales, l'enseignement de la religion à l'école, l'urbanisme". Mais les dépenses publiques et les impôts sont des sujets exclus...

 

J'ignorais que la démocratie directe était pratiquée en Italie :

 

"Depuis 1970, le référendum d'initiative populaire pour abroger une loi existe en Italie."

 

Il y a eu des référendums sur "le divorce, l'échelle mobile des salaires", mais, comme en Allemagne, il n'est pas possible d'aborder les épineux sujets des dépenses publiques et des impôts...

 

C'est bien dommage parce que "les travaux menés par les professeurs Feld et Kirchgässner ont montré en étudiant les résultats des référendums financiers aux USA et dans les cantons suisses que là où la démocratie directe existe, les impôts et les dépenses publiques sont un tiers plus bas que dans les pays où la démocratie est purement représentative. L'endettement est de moitié plus faible."...

 

Sans doute parce que les groupes de pression et les lobbies ne peuvent plus exercer complètement leur influence délétère sur les représentants du peuple... lequel n'est pas si bête que cela comme le prétendent certaines élites dont le pouvoir absolu serait menacé :

 

"Par exemple, les Suisses ont rejeté des mesures démagogiques comme l'adoption des 35 H ou bien la suppression de l'armée."... Horreur et damnation !

 

On ne peut donc que se réjouir de l'extension de la démocratie directe à d'autres pays. C'est peut-être le seul espoir que l'on se dirige vers l'Etat libéral... La France n'en prend hélas pas le chemin...

 

Francis Richard