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Flashback: On His Way Out, Manhattan DA Zings Bloomberg [2009]
Newser ^ | December 27, 2009 | M. Morris

Posted on 06/02/2013 4:07:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

In 35 years as Manhattan DA, Robert Morgenthau has gotten along with every mayor of New York -- except the current one. Mike Bloomberg, says Morgenthau, "doesn't want anybody around who doesn't kiss his ring, or other parts of his body." In a wide-ranging interview with the Wall Street Journal, the 90-year-old, who leaves office Thursday, addresses everything from his feud with the mayor to the international crimefighting role his office has played during his tenure. As usual, he pulls no punches:

On enforcing economic sanctions against Iran and its business partners: "The president is smoking pot or something if he thinks that being nice to these guys is going to get him anywhere."

On convicting octogenarian Anthony Marshall of stealing from his mother, socialite Brooke Astor: The verdict "sent a message all over the country: You can't steal from your elders."

On parking money offshore to evade taxes: "You're never going to see them reduced unless everybody pays what they're required to pay under the law."

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TOPICS: US: New York
KEYWORDS: anthonymarshall; brookeastor; iran; manhattan; michaelbloomberg; newyork; newyorkcity; robertmorgenthau; taxes; taxevasion

1 posted on 06/02/2013 4:07:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
On parking money offshore to evade taxes: "You're never going to see them reduced unless everybody pays what they're required to pay under the law."

Had hope for the guy until I got to this point.

Where I park my money is my business. The government's experiment in pillaging our hard work has failed miserably. If they repealed the 16th amendment, we could get this country back to where it belongs. Bottom line: never happen.

2 posted on 06/02/2013 4:13:53 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SunkenCiv

being 90 years old does have certain advantages....


3 posted on 06/02/2013 4:15:06 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: rarestia

That would depend on what he means. He may not mean it in a socialist sense, but rather in the way that the very rich have paid off politicians to manipulate the tax system so that they pay few taxes, dumping the burden onto the middle class.

If that’s the case, that is reasonable.


4 posted on 06/02/2013 4:25:20 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Also sez Zero's dreaming if he thinks sanctions will work on Iran.
5 posted on 06/02/2013 4:43:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Jonty30

I interpreted his comments the same way you did.


6 posted on 06/02/2013 4:46:52 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Jonty30
...dumping the burden onto the middle class

Really? How did the rich do that?

Care to elaborate on how much of the tax burden falls on the middle-class, versus the burden carried by the rich?

Also, if the rich did pay off politicians, why is it that they're still the targets of politicians, especially the liberal politicians? When it comes to "purchasing" favors from politicians, aren't the poor and middle-class the ones doing the purchasing, since they are the ones getting the most benefits from the government coffers? The poor and middle-class have been voting for the ones who promise them the most freebies and benefits by government. The rich are virtually powerless when it comes to the politicians that get elected, and the democrats prove that by going after the "low information" voters every election cycle.
7 posted on 06/02/2013 4:51:31 PM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: Jonty30

That is simply veiled leftist BS.

The rich pay a LOT of taxes. We need more rich people, not less. And the richer the better.


8 posted on 06/02/2013 4:58:18 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: SaxxonWoods

I tend to agree with you.

I’m not talking about trying to bleed the rich. I’m talking about putting everybody on the same page in terms of the rate they pay and that everybody functions under the same rules, with nobody getting any sort of deductions that is not available to anybody else.

You don’t really think the tax code is 73,000 pages long, because the government wants a fair tax system, do you?


9 posted on 06/02/2013 5:24:31 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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