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Sarbox Takes a Constitutional By targeting the PCAOB's ''massive unchecked powers,'' a lawsuit also poses a constitutional challenge to Sarbanes-Oxley.

David M. Katz, CFO.com | US
February 14, 2006

Assessments are taxes

Pitt doesn't seem to understand an economic basic when he warns about having a tax-funded agency vs. one funded by assessments on public corporations. A tax is a tax. Assessments on public corporations are simply an indirect tax on the consumers of the corporation's products which raise the price of the products. The end consumer always pays any tax levied.

Posted by John Saunders | Mar 2, 2006 2:04 PM ET