“Don't worry. These reductions are not for us or our families or mistressess.
We will forever continue our platinum health care.
If any oxygen-wasting taxpayers dare complain, we take their healthcare and snuff their entire family.”
Posted on 09/01/2009 4:52:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Even as he fends off accusations about his own failure to pay taxes and fully disclose his financial dealings, Rep. Charles Rangel had quietly slipped into the health-care bill broad new provisions cracking down on taxpayers in proceedings with the IRS, The Post has learned.
The changes approved by the House Ways and Means Committee that Rangel chairs would strip away legal defenses and pile higher penalties on corporate and individual taxpayers facing IRS proceedings for what they claim are unintentional mistakes, experts said.
Rangel’s bill would:
* Punish those who fail to alert the IRS to potentially questionable tax exemptions.
* Bar the IRS from waiving penalties against taxpayers who clearly erred in good faith.
* Double fines in certain circumstances.
“The bill raises penalties and eliminates many of the reasonable defenses that taxpayers have always been able to use when honest mistakes are uncovered,” one lawyer told The Post.
In fact, the bill increases fines “in some cases even for honest mistakes,” the expert added.
Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale — on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.
The documents also show the embattled chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — who is being probed by the House Ethics Committee — failed to reveal a staggering $3 million in various business transactions over the same period.
This week, Rangel filed drastically revised financial-disclosure forms reflecting new, higher amounts of outside income and numerous additional business deals that had not been reported when the reports were originally filed.
In 2004, for instance, Rangel reported earning between $4,000 and $10,000 in outside earnings on top of his $158,100 congressional salary.
But the amended filings show that after the sale of a property on West 132nd Street, his outside income that year was somewhere between $118,000 and $1.04 million.
Punish Sorry Charlie by getting him out of office and into Jail.
This the same Charlie Rangel who “forgot” to report income to the IRS?
Too bad the voters of Rangel’s district can’t be punished for his misdeeds.
Gov’t healthcare = slavery
A great tribute to the district that he represents.
This could be proof that Rangel has not, and wonder if ever have, written or read any bill that he has signed. These cats have just been showing up casting a vote and collecting their check.
We’ve been suckers far too long.
punish Rangel by putting him before a death panel right as he is having a heart attack!
Jeffery Dahmer WANTS HARSHER PUNISHMENT FOR CANNIBALS! Says Dahmer, “Cannibalism is DISGUSTING, and I, for one, will DO MY PART TO PUNISH THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE!”
The voters of his district don't even pay tax's and "gettin over on the man" is a badge of honor.
They will vote for him even if he's in prison.
“Don't worry. These reductions are not for us or our families or mistressess.
We will forever continue our platinum health care.
If any oxygen-wasting taxpayers dare complain, we take their healthcare and snuff their entire family.”
For a second I thought it said.....
.....CHARLIE'S ANGELS PUNISH TAX SLIP-UPS BY TAKING AWAY THEIR HEALTHCARE
Those who voted for Rangel are those who should be punished.
The text of the article does not support the headline, though you did re-post the headline correctly.
WHat to do? What to do? What to do?
Well, ol' Charlie has an angle here ~ DRAG 'EM THROUGH TAX COURT. Turn their disputes over medical bills (and haven't we all been involved in that) into a story you can tell the sympathetic folks at IRS.
Yup, Charlie's on the right track ~ there being no other way I can figure out for a large federal healthcare agency to handle nonpayers outside of the regular courts ~ but he's MAD, totally freaking MAD!!!!
No Charlie, we don't take our hangnails and proctological exams to the IRS for ajudication ~
The states are much better prepared to handle small dollar value financial disputes than are the federal courts.
Is he serious? Doesn’t sound to me like he has full control of his mental capacities. He and his constituents should all have a psychiatric examination.
YES!!!! THANK YOU CHARLIE- WHAT THE GOVERNMENT GIVES TO YOU THEY CAN TAKE AWAY!!! THIS SHOWS HOW THEY THINK MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE!!!
WHAT OTHER ACTIVITIES WILL BE ‘PUNISHED’ BY REMOVING HEALTH CARE?
THE CRIME OF ‘BEING OLD’ MAYBE???
democrat hypocrisy knows no boundaries
these people are insane
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