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Harry Reid Now Spreading Baseless Claim that Koch Brothers Don't Pay Corporate Taxes
The Weekly Standard ^ | April 2, 2014 | JOHN MCCORMACK

Posted on 04/02/2014 11:19:26 AM PDT by don-o

Senate majority leader Harry Reid has a whole page on his official Senate.gov website devoted to revealing "THE FACTS ABOUT THE KOCH BROTHERS." One of the alleged facts promoted on Reid's website is that the Kochs do not pay any corporate taxes:

“They are known for bankrolling conservative, Libertarian and Tea Party causes and became poster boys for corporate tax reform last year when an Obama Administration official suggested Koch is organized as an S Corp. and so pays no corporate level taxes.”

The claim that the Koch brothers don't pay corporate income taxes was first made by former White House official Austan Goolsbee, but Koch Industries lawyer Mark Holden disputed the accusation and raised the question of whether someone in the Obama administration illegally accessed the Kochs' tax returns. Goolsbee's comments led to a federal investigation--the results of which have never been released.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: austangoolsbee; georgesoros; harryreid; impeachnow; johnmccormack; kochbrothers; markholden; nevada; reid; unfitforoffice; warrenbuffet; warrenbuffett; wheresmydroolcup
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1 posted on 04/02/2014 11:19:26 AM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o
S Corps do not pay federal taxes.

They pass through their income to the owners of the S Corp, who pay personal federal taxes.

That way, the owners of the S Corp can pay taxes using their own deductions, which may result in a tax bill lower than the prevailing corporate tax rate.

2 posted on 04/02/2014 11:23:35 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: don-o

it’s time for him to be aggressively sued for libel , by some party that can take it to the limit .

Reid needs to be chopped off at the knees


3 posted on 04/02/2014 11:23:41 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: don-o
He's right, the Kochs don't pay corporate taxes. And neither does Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and any other corporate officer or entity, regardless of political affiliation.

Corporations don't pay taxes. They merely pass the cost of doing business along to the consumer and serve as unpaid tax collectors.

4 posted on 04/02/2014 11:23:43 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: don-o

Why doesn’t he hurry up and die?


5 posted on 04/02/2014 11:23:52 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: don-o

Probably from the same source he got Romney’s tax info.
From The Machine


6 posted on 04/02/2014 11:24:22 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: don-o

Well, of course he is. It’s only people like the Koch brothers who stand between us and Harry’s communist dream.


7 posted on 04/02/2014 11:24:29 AM PDT by MrChips (Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
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To: don-o

Harry Reid said Mitt Romney didn’t pay taxes and the media loved it. They played the story for weeks.


8 posted on 04/02/2014 11:24:59 AM PDT by Baynative (Got bulbs? Check my profile page.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Why doesn’t he hurry up and die?

Because even Satan doesn't want him
9 posted on 04/02/2014 11:25:17 AM PDT by jrg
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To: LeoWindhorse

Does his website protections like his protect speech when he goes on the senate floor?


10 posted on 04/02/2014 11:25:38 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: don-o

Hairy Reid needs to be jailed.


11 posted on 04/02/2014 11:25:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: don-o

Deja vu all over again.

Didn’t we conclude the last time he said something like this that the only way he could know is if he had illegally procured a copy of their tax return?


12 posted on 04/02/2014 11:26:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; a man who respects it has earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: bassmaner

don’t forget rat friendly GE, owners of MSNBC- they pay $0.00 as well...


13 posted on 04/02/2014 11:27:10 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: wideawake

As the CFO of a small S-Corp that employs 4 people and in 20 years has paid over $1 million in taxes, I can assure you that S-Corps, via their owners’ withholding, pay plenty of taxes.


14 posted on 04/02/2014 11:27:37 AM PDT by MrChips (Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
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15 posted on 04/02/2014 11:27:41 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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To: Baynative

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. If anyone knows more about tax cheating-stealing and back room money deals old dirty Harrys the man.


16 posted on 04/02/2014 11:29:12 AM PDT by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!)
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To: don-o

Didn’t Dirty Reid have to pay over $30,000 that he overlooked?


17 posted on 04/02/2014 11:30:00 AM PDT by mountainlion
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To: don-o

Why not? It worked against Milt, didn’t it?


18 posted on 04/02/2014 11:30:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: MrChips
Exactly, via withholding.
19 posted on 04/02/2014 11:30:44 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: LeoWindhorse

Reid is the mastermind behind the IRS Scandal. Forget petty libel suits...the man needs to be taken down. He volunteered to be 0bama’s fall guy...let’s make him fall and be frog marched right out of office.

This is the behavior that brings whole governments to collapse.


20 posted on 04/02/2014 11:30:50 AM PDT by EBH (And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
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