Posted on 02/08/2009 4:04:55 AM PST by Liz
Labor Secy-designate Hilda Solis is Obama's latest appointee to fall afoul of the taxman.....As corny as it sounds, most Americans consider paying taxes an obligation of citizenship. Obama's Tax Rogues Gallery undermines that notion. It's hard to say what's more appalling: Obama's selection process - or what it says about the leadership class from which they've sprung.
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How about: “As corny as it is...”
As posted above, I think we still have to KEEP IN MIND The Chicago county assessor is a high- ranking Democrat Party operative, and is surely biased.
This same assessor once carried the palatial home of Democrat Cong Luis Guiterrez on the tax rolls as a vacant lot and argued once the story was publicized that Guiterrez should not be penalized for a "clerical error" ....this was after Guiterrez paid minimal taxes for years and years, b/c Guiterrez' palatial home was listed as a vacant lot.
Rahm has two lots and pays the freight on a single bill and gets a tax break loophole that most of us would never be allowed and now the assessor tells us to be happy that multi-millionaire and Freddie Mac swiller Rahm Emanuel pays anything.
The sound of paper shredders.....................
Looks like Rahm exerted (cough) a little pressure on his and Obama's political allies to "clarify" the issue. Man, would I love to see Rahm's cell phone records....since this story broke.
City and county Chicago governments are run by corrupt Dem machines for years, it's hardly surprising that Emmanuel managed to pulled off his "charitable organization" stunt successfully....then got a "clarification"..........when the going got rough.
One question remains-----was Rahm's tax check backdated?
I agree ... could have been “fixed.”
Apparently Cook County Assessor replied here:
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/11/why-doesnt-rahm.html
Thursday, November 06, 2008
This post removed due to Cook County Government Intimidation
........another Machiavellian facet to Obama's actions.......his flawed nominees not only populate our government with an inner circle with shady pasts, but Obama fosters an ancillary benefit, that of feeding the growing distrust and disconnect between Americans and our government, striking another blow against a system built on trust and morality.
Freeper "itsahoot" posted this on another thread: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798 John Adams
In fact...I might go so far as to say...I'd rather his $$ went to his designated charities...than the city or state.
That being said....I detest the man. And I think he is an enemy of the U.S.A.
Ducking for in-coming..........
A Democrat party operative in charge of properties/deeds/taxes means the Chicago political PTB plan on a lot of hanky-panky.
Political crooks got a zillion ways to cook the books.
One ruse commonly facilitated in the Hall of Records..........pols latch onto properties, then the deeds are deleted from the assessor's files.
Pols get property free and clear w/ no taxes and NOBODY knows about it.
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The tax assessor could (and no doubt did) “fix” Rahm's tax situation when word leaked out..............
The Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Trust, formed 2002, reported giving (A) nearly $25,000 to the Anshe Emet synagogue and school, Chicago, (B) $15,000 to former president Bill Clinton's "foundation", (C) $14,000 to Marwen, a Chicago "charity" that provides art classes and educational help to low-income children (Amy Rule is on Marwen’s board).
The BIGGEST AND MOST EASILY FACILITATED FRAUDS are between foundation and foundation.....writing checks to each other (which is the MO for laundering tax-exempt monies).
One notorious fraud a few years back-----an individual donated a large sum to a synagogue---the synagogue took a cut, then deposited the rest in an Israeli bank for the donor's use later, out of sight of the taxman and US banking laws.
NEED TO KNOW Authorities need to determine the extent to which Foundation principles manipulated philanthropic transactions, such as:
(1) loans, the (2) sale, (3) exchange or (4) leasing of property to related organizations, and donors, and the extent to which organizations reported (5) "excess benefit transactions" on Form 990, and, (6) the extent to which "executive pay" was properly accounted for with the IRS.
Foundation principles need to reveal the dimension of contributions these organizations that may have been illegally redirected to political activity and be requested to explain:
(1) how non-profit donations are made, and, (2) the manner in which the Foundation allocated assets.
The Foundation should be asked for details about how its various subcommittees are funded, and the extent to which the Foundation is colluding to, perhaps, finance political campaigns surreptitiously, and are engaging in other illegal transactions.
The communists in the Soviet Union had their dachas in the country, too. You need a summer house when you’re commanding an economy.
The special election, to replace Emanuel, has one conservative, Rosanna Pulido, the founder and director of the Illinois Minuteman Project, and I’m her volunteer coordinator. She’s pro-life and pro-gun rights. Please read her site, www.rosannapulido2009.com. If you know anyone who wants to volunteer, for her, please ask them to email me at philacollins@yahoo.com. If you know anyone who wants to donate, to her, please ask them to do so, through her site.
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