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Roskam gives vision for future Meets with local business leaders, discusses challenges to be addressed in coming years By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam brought local businesses an update from Washington, D.C., on Friday, but left the pessimism in the nation’s capital. Roskam, R-Wheaton, met with local business owners and chamber of commerce members at Park Place Banquet Facility in Crystal Lake
on Friday morning to outline the challenges entrepreneurs and businesses still face and the progress he believes is Peter possible in the Roskam coming years. “I sense an opportunity,” Roskam said. “I’m more optimistic than most about the direction of our country.”
To seize the opportunity, Roskam said the public must be informed and act to make a difference. Two of the biggest obstacles to a better business environment, he said, are the country’s complex tax code and the Internal Revenue Service that enforces it. The 6th District congressman said the complex code has made it far too difficult for people to enter the business world and for businesses to
operate efficiently in the country. He said the recent slew of businesses moving headquarters to other parts of the world would continue if tax reform was not pursued because the existing code chases them away. Simplifying the tax code, he said, also would help put an end to what he called an embedded culture of corruption in the IRS. Roskam blasted the IRS for recent probes into
churches, operating in secrecy and generally overstepping its role. “Bureaucrats hide in complexity. They are able to exert more influence based on the complexity of the code,” Roskam said. “We need to take away their hiding place.” There is some harmony in Washington, he said, especially when it comes to progressing trade. Roskam said he supports President Barack
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Obama’s goal to double trade in the next five years and sees plenty of opportunity in Pacific nations and Europe. “There is some common ground on trade,” he said. “Where trade barriers come down, we all win.” While that economic policy resonates with Roskam, he said Obama’s health care overhaul has been a disaster
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Strategy: Contain, not destroy, extremists Obama says no ground troops to go back to Iraq By ROBERT BURNS and LARA JAKES The Associated Press
parent scams” pose a different set of challenges from the in-person soliciting scams common after storms. Because everything is done over the phone or computer, it can be difficult to track offenders might be located out of the state or country, in some cases, he said. As police and residents become more aware of cyber crime, it becomes easier to identify and prevent, he said. “People that started learning on computers 20 years [ago] are starting to get to that
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s new military strategy in Iraq amounts to trying to contain – not destroy – the Islamic militant group that now controls much of the country’s northern region. That leaves open the questions of how deeply the U.S. will be drawn into the sectarian conflict, and whether airstrikes alone can stop the militants’ momentum. Obama insists he will More inside not send American ground U.S. airstrikes troops back to Iraq after having withdrawn them in target militants 2011, fulfilling a campaign in Iraq, promise. Still, even the limPAGE B3 ited airstrikes against the vicious insurgency show the president’s conviction that the U.S. military cannot remain dormant after having fought an eight-year war that temporarily neutralized Sunni extremists but failed to produce lasting peace. U.S. military jets dropped food and water to imperiled refugees in northwestern Iraq and launched several airstrikes Friday on isolated targets, including two mortar positions and a vehicle convoy in northeastern Iraq, near the country’s Kurdish capital of Irbil. Additional airdrops and targeted strikes were thought likely. The next move may be up to the Islamic State group, the al-Qaida inspired extremists who have chewed up Iraqi opposition so far. About three dozen U.S. military trainers and a U.S. consulate are in Irbil, where Kurdish forces are fighting off a militant advance. That’s no easy defense. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said of
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Undersheriff Andrew Zinke works Thursday at the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office in Woodstock. Seasonal scams are prevalent during the summer with telephone and Internet scams being the most popular, according to Zinke.
Seasonal scams take on new look with changes in technology By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – The seemingly friendly face at the front door pointing out the need to fix a cracked driveway or repair a damaged roof just looking to pull off a quick scam has been replaced. While the old summer scams still exist, local law enforcement said faceless threats have become much more prevalent and seniors are the target. McHenry County Sheriff’s deputy Aimee Knop and Undersheriff Andrew Zinke said the “grandparent
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scam” has been on the rise in the county and is done exclusively over the phone or Internet. Knop said, in many cases, a person will call a senior and pose as a relative or grandchild. The person will mention how they are away on vacation and need money for an emergency. With the rise of social media,
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would-be scammers are able to easily find the names of relatives and when people are on vacation because of status updates and photographs. “With the Internet, our personal information is everywhere so it is very easy to get,” Knop said. “When you take pictures that show you’re on vacation or just celebrated Grandma’s birthday, it airs everything [scammers] need.” Zinke said the sheriff’s office is always working on reaching out to the community about potential scams and ways to avoid them. But, he said, the “grand-
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