Double Standard Common

Back at the beginning of May I received a copy of the Lewiston (ID) Morning Tribune.
The editorial this Sunday was “Idaho has an Equal Pay Day, not equal pay”.

In Idaho women earn 60 cents to each $1paid to men for equal work. This practice has been illegal since Congress passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

This tells you a lot about Idaho even though the state legislature passed a bill establishing April 28 as Equal Pay Day in the Gem State.

This isn’t the only issue in Idaho that is kept under wraps.

Another issue, just one of many is the $80 thousand fine Butch Otter paid for violating environmental laws on his property. He originally faced a $300 thousand fine but somehow was able to while it down. It still failed to have him recover damage wetlands.

Butch must drive a mean bulldozer, cowboy hat and all.

Then there is the sneaky way people like Larry Wasden fail to hold lawyers in his and the state’s employ accountable for evidence rules. He’s let these people ride ruff shod over people, especially women, with protective orders. Seems he too forgets that Idaho has reciprocal agreements with other states. And he probably forgets that if a judge seals documents it means that the information is not to be posted on the tax commission web site.

Ask Linda Pike about that one. Maybe ask the ID Bar Association too who let her get a free pass.

Too bad you won’t hear the truth from tax commissioners either. These Boise “insiders” seem to think it is okay to violate their own rules and cause grievous harm to many.

Did they forget that one of their rules is privacy and another is that if you are not required to file with the IRS you aren’t required to file with the ID tax commission either?

There are so many rules they ignore, glibly too, with no conscious for their wrong doing and errors of omission.

Malfeasance it seems to me, eh Larry?

And mad scrambling for CYA activity everywhere is just amazing.

Still a daily happnin’ thing after all these years.

Privacy you say

So far I have had my mortgage subpoenaed, and my credit report obtained (even though the ITC failed to pay attention when I tried to explain about the Identity theft incident as part of the series of crimes that were done to me by a former business partner). That credit report, by the way, is still under resolution with the help of the FTC.

I am on disability as a result of the terrorism (the reason I have a protection order). The Idaho Code does not require those with Social Security disability income to file, yet that is not what has happened to me.

I have not been required to file for more than 10 years. This agreement was reinforced by my congressional representative and the IRS in 1997, following the 1994 tax and mail fraud by the former business partner. Three years of harassment by the IRS on this case and they never asked my former business partner to present the cancelled check he alleged he paid to me.

IMHO the Idaho Tax Commission makes the IRS look feeble in its attempts to rough people up.

Oh, I might add that I explained all of this to the ITC in 2002. Seems as if no one at the ITC ever looks in a file to verify facts. Or maybe they do not keep files. It is Clare Cunningham at the ITC who said, a year after I sent a copy of my protection order to Carolyn Hartman that they had no record of it.

Seems as if these people get on the run-a-way train at full steam ahead.