US contractor attacks IRS. With his 'plane

[VectraMan]

Terrorism has to to be continued attacks, or at least the threat of continued attacks. Al Quaeda might do it again, so there's reason to be afraid. This bloke won't be terrorising anybody now.

[Sockpuppet]

Terrorism has to to be continued attacks, or at least the threat of continued attacks. Al Quaeda might do it again, so there's reason to be afraid. This bloke won't be terrorising anybody now.

How do we know he's not the first of a new terrorist group?

[Scary]

It's an interesting read.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...102stack1.html

[Flashman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19tax.html

Sounds very familiar.

In his suicide note, the computer software engineer who flew a small plane into a building with Internal Revenue Service offices in Texas on Thursday cited a 1986 tax law as a major motivation for his action.

The law, known as Section 1706 of the 1986 Tax Reform Act, made it extremely difficult for information technology professionals to work as self-employed individuals, forcing most to become company employees.

Many software engineers and other such professionals say that the law denies them the opportunity to become wealthy entrepreneurs and that it makes it harder to increase and refine their skills, eventually diminishing their income.

Harvey J. Shulman, a Washington lawyer who represented companies that supported the desires of software engineers to be independent contractors, estimated that the law currently affects at least 100,000 such people.

“This law has ruined many people’s lives, hurt the technology industry, and discouraged the creation of small, independent businesses critical to a thriving domestic economy,”

On Wednesday, the day before Andrew Joseph Stack III left his suicide note and crashed the plane into the building in Austin, the Obama administration proposed a widespread crackdown on all types of independent contractors in an effort to raise $7 billion in tax revenue over 10 years