Two Things Are Certain in Afghanistan: (IED) Deaths and (Screwed Up) Taxes -- Mark Thompson, Battleland/Time
A roadside bomb killed three U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. You can always count on death, as Ben Franklin ruefully noted. And in Afghanistan, it seems, you can always count on taxes. Being screwed up. Big time.
Just check out the title of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko’s report released Tuesday:
Taxes: Afghan Government Has Levied Nearly a Billion Dollars in Business Taxes on Contractors Supporting U.S. Government Efforts in Afghanistan
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My Comment: Yup .... the Afghans are becoming Westernized.
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