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Husband Of Labor Secretary Revealed As Tax Cheat Just Hours Prior To Confirmation (Vote posponed)
USA Today (but not direct link) ^ | 2-5-09 | an amused spectator

Posted on 02/05/2009 10:58:54 AM PST by icwhatudo

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To: icwhatudo

Delaying the vote surprised me - its not hard to get a $6,000 tax lien for a business. That said, strategically this may help get a better stimulus bill - I’m not sure though - these cabinet problems shift power away from Obama but may help the Pelosi gang more than the Republican.


121 posted on 02/05/2009 12:58:55 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: Syncro
Add it to the "List" for Obama...

& this is only a partial list of what we actually know. Imagine how much we don't, & how much more is coming! This is truly an amazingly scary time in our country's brief history...

122 posted on 02/05/2009 1:03:22 PM PST by PEACE ENFORCER (One Needs to Have the Capability of Using Deadly Force at Any Moment.....:))
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To: staytrue

Wow, it’s a big deal to me...it’s my kids private school tuition for a year.

Frankly, I don’t care if it’s $7, it’s the do as I say not as I do attitude that pisses me off, not the amount of the tax bill.


123 posted on 02/05/2009 1:04:15 PM PST by mom4melody
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Gotta wonder if Woodward’s information might not be that Obama didn’t pay his taxes.


124 posted on 02/05/2009 1:08:53 PM PST by Robert Lomax
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To: eeevil conservative
"After all-— BIDEN SAYS PAYING TAXES IS PATRIOTIC!! HE DEFINED IT!"

I think they mean its patriotic for Republicans to pay taxes but DemonRats are exepmpt.

125 posted on 02/05/2009 1:15:48 PM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Uncle Miltie

Obama can institute a 90% bracket for all I care as long as I’m in his cute little “taxes for thee, not for me” club.


126 posted on 02/05/2009 1:19:08 PM PST by Callahan
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To: staytrue
Sorry guys, but 7k in taxes is not a big deal.

Great, I'll just subtract that amount from my check to Uncle Sam this year and apply for a cabinet job.

127 posted on 02/05/2009 1:21:14 PM PST by Callahan
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To: staytrue
Sorry guys, but 7k in taxes is not a big deal.

That's more than the per-capita (working cost of the "stimulus" package...

128 posted on 02/05/2009 1:32:10 PM PST by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: matt1234
Just for accuracy, we should note that this is NOT the IRS -- it's state and local taxes, apparently not from Income taxes. I've checked blogs across the spectrum, and everyone talks as if it is the IRS. Go figure.

Doesn't necessarily make it better or worse (the 7K, truthfully, is not so bad for some type of business tax screw-up. The 16 years of just letting liens sit without paying up is much worse, IMHO).

129 posted on 02/05/2009 1:48:52 PM PST by BohDaThone
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To: sfimom

Is there anyone out there who is keeping track of The Marxist Onada’s tax cheats?


130 posted on 02/05/2009 1:55:38 PM PST by dools007
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To: gondramB
these cabinet problems shift power away from Obama but may help the Pelosi gang more than the Republican.

Neither of the above - Taxes - The Supply Dump For The Democrats' Socialist Utopia

All these Tax Cheat problems will begin to threaten the ability of the Democrats to keep the tax-paying galley slaves hard at the oars, rowing our way to the Liberal Utopia.

It's kind of amazing that these Dem airheads just kind of assume that they can cheat on their taxes, but the money from us serfs will just continue to flow into the Treasury.

I especially fault Obama for a lack of perception on this issue. Perhaps it's because there's never been a serious challenge to the tax collection system in many, many years.

131 posted on 02/05/2009 1:59:15 PM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: abb; Admin Moderator

I doubt that you can link to McStingyPaper downthread, either.


132 posted on 02/05/2009 2:00:03 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
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To: BohDaThone
Just for accuracy, we should note that this is NOT the IRS -- it's state and local taxes, apparently not from Income taxes. I've checked blogs across the spectrum, and everyone talks as if it is the IRS. Go figure.

Right. For our purposes, however, it doesn't matter.

We'll be just like the Democrat media - we mentioned it once, and then we dropped it.

Democrats cheat the IRS!

133 posted on 02/05/2009 2:01:10 PM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: an amused spectator

This is a huge, resonating issue, and it’s during tax season.

People get really po’d when they see these people getting away with flaunting laws that they live in fear of.


134 posted on 02/05/2009 2:02:50 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: an amused spectator

>>these cabinet problems shift power away from Obama but may help the Pelosi gang more than the Republican.


Neither of the above - Taxes - The Supply Dump For The Democrats’ Socialist Utopia

All these Tax Cheat problems will begin to threaten the ability of the Democrats to keep the tax-paying galley slaves hard at the oars, rowing our way to the Liberal Utopia.<<

I hope you are right.
I fear you are wrong.


135 posted on 02/05/2009 2:09:43 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: icwhatudo
Jonah Goldberg on Democrat hypocrisy:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-oe-goldberg3-2009feb03,1,6699738.column

136 posted on 02/05/2009 2:11:11 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: Upstate NY Guy

BINGO!!

btw— did you notice that 7 minutes after I posted that comment— Mark (filling in for Rush) started saying the same thing!!!

All the smart folks are FREEPERS!!

;-)


137 posted on 02/05/2009 2:14:43 PM PST by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE EARTH....Archimedes)
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To: gondramB
Talk it up at work and in public.

It's not a Democrat or a Republican issue. It's about a Master and Slave issue.

NOBODY likes Tax Cheats, especially when they're getting away with it.

I think we've blown a huge hole in their defense lines and are on the verge of flanking them, while they were advancing to the attack.

138 posted on 02/05/2009 2:20:06 PM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: gondramB
I hope you are right.

I fear you are wrong.

If you want to cheer yourself up, go to sites like USA Today, the Washington Post and The New York Times, and find a Tax Cheat article with comments attached.

The Democrat apologists are getting their 8sses handed to them.

Usually, it's a knock-down drag-out fight between Zeroes and Bushies and an entire waste of life reading the comments, but it's actually entertaining to watch the Demmies sputter, weasel and slither.

139 posted on 02/05/2009 2:24:50 PM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: staytrue

So let me see if I have this right: If I cheat for 16 years, but not for a lot of money, it “is not a big deal”?

Does that sum it up?

Just asking...

Peet


140 posted on 02/05/2009 2:25:08 PM PST by Peet (<- A.K.A. the Foundling)
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