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mises
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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:55 am Post subject: Why aren't Dems paying their taxes? |
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For a group of people who have a general philosophical disposition towards more government (more taxes) these people are sure having difficulties.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28994296/
Drudge is calling this a circus.. I am starting to agree. This is 4 tax dodgers thus far.
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:34 am Post subject: Re: Why aren't Dems paying their taxes? |
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| mises wrote: |
For a group of people who have a general philosophical disposition towards more government (more taxes) these people are sure having difficulties.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28994296/
Drudge is calling this a circus.. I am starting to agree. This is 4 tax dodgers thus far. |
Democrats are Socialists of various stripes - from foolish Fabians to Fascists. What they have in common is that socialists and other so-called "do-gooders" who wish to spend government money to further their goals are the greediest, most selfish people in the world.
A truly good and generous person who is not selfish will attempt to help the poor, or promote his pet cause with his own money. He may encourage or solicit others to help, voluntarily, but he will not use force to steal money from others just to satisfy his own desires. He would never use tax money, stolen money. He would never seek to enrich himself in the process, in fact he would generously donate his own time and money and likely end up poorer but happier. (George Bailey, for example.)
The Democrats are an amalgamation of people who want to steal other people's money to achieve their goals. They have no desire to spend their own. In fact, the leading Democratic office holders use their positions as public do-gooders to enrich themselves at the expense of the people they pretend to be helping.
So, these phoney do-gooders cry crocodile tears, pretend to help whatever group will get them the most power, steal money from the powerless, enrich themselves, and don't give a damn whether they actually help anyone.
Since it's all about greed, why would anyone be surprised that they cheat as much as possible on their taxes. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Blow to the Obama administration. |
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mises
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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Tax chislers are so....mundane. I miss the good old days of gay Republican sex scandals.
I can understand a computer repairman and his elementary school teacher wife trying every tax dodge they can find, but for someone who is angling for a high government position where they know for a fact their every financial decision since the 3rd grade will be looked at....just foolish. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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Obama: "I made a mistake".
How refreshing. |
I like that too. From that point, my thought process goes two ways:
1) WTF is going on with these clowns not paying taxes nor owning up to it before their nominations are made public. Are they trying to be "sneaky"?
2) I like that Obama admits he made a mistake. Luckily, the vetting process caught this garbage before these yak asses were given a more powerful position. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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No, no, no, this is all wrong.
Drudge, as usual, is misleading. We have a few individuals with minor tax liens, two with $1,000 or under.
As for Daschle, yes his tax obligations were much larger. But Daschle's main problem was his dealings with private health care and how that would look given his proposed position at Health and Human Services. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| As for Daschle, yes his tax obligations were much larger. But Daschle's main problem was his dealings with private health care and how that would look given his proposed position at Health and Human Services. |
Glad they got rid of them.
Actually, there are MANY people who actually seem to believe that Obama wants to provide universal healthcare. I haven't read ANYTHING to this whatsoever, the only thing I saw was coverage of kids, and that is about it. This just confirms to all of the many Republicans and anti-universal healthcare people that Obama had no intention whatsoever of changing their preferred system.
Daschle lobbying with all the industries that create the problem, is part of the problem. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Another Obama nominee has tax problems
When it rains in D.C. these days, it pours Obama administration nominees with tax issues. Thursday brought the news that Labor Secretary-nominee Hilda Solis' husband, Sam Sayyad, had, on Wednesday, paid $6,400 to settle tax liens on his business, some of them dating back 16 years.
The news was broken by USA Today, which asked Solis and Sayyad about the liens on Tuesday; the couple says they were unaware of them before that. A White House spokesman told the paper that Sayyad believes he had paid the taxes, and plans to appeal. |
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/02/05/solis/index.html |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Another Obama nominee has tax problems
When it rains in D.C. these days, it pours Obama administration nominees with tax issues. Thursday brought the news that Labor Secretary-nominee Hilda Solis' husband, Sam Sayyad, had, on Wednesday, paid $6,400 to settle tax liens on his business, some of them dating back 16 years.
The news was broken by USA Today, which asked Solis and Sayyad about the liens on Tuesday; the couple says they were unaware of them before that. A White House spokesman told the paper that Sayyad believes he had paid the taxes, and plans to appeal. |
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/02/05/solis/index.html |
If one of these people tells me they didnt understand they had to file these taxes, I would understand that to be a credible statement. Especially in the case of business taxes, where the busines is not a corporation but a flow-through entity (such as an LLC, standard partnership, or an S corp).
The Tax Code is an absolute nightmare. This is nit-picking in the extreme. |
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