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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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To: don-o

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill

This particular lie has been around the world twice now.


41 posted on 04/02/2014 12:11:44 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Would it be better if he weren’t feckless?


42 posted on 04/02/2014 12:11:48 PM PDT by Lisbon1940
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To: don-o

I’m still trying to figure out what’s illegal about organizing as a Subchapter S corporation. If it’s not illegal, where’s the beef? If the IRS has ho issue with it, what possible source of concern is there for Harry (Dogcrap) Reid?


43 posted on 04/02/2014 12:13:26 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: don-o

Why is this little slimy-hump-backed-squirt allowed to use a government website to attack private citizens? Will not one member of the senate stand up and challenge this guy?

As I said on another thread, I remember a time when he would have been kicked out of the senate.


44 posted on 04/02/2014 12:15:47 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: don-o
an Obama Administration official suggested Koch is organized as an S Corp. and so pays no corporate level taxes.

Absolutely true. The most despicable lies are half truths.

45 posted on 04/02/2014 12:16:28 PM PDT by DManA
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To: EBH

I don’t believe he’s Obama’s fall guy. I believe he’s the message boy to tells Obama what to do.


46 posted on 04/02/2014 12:17:26 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: logic101.net

Unfortunately the next president, if republican, will say “We need to move on.” I think moveon.org got it’s name from a republican comment.


47 posted on 04/02/2014 12:20:15 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Lisbon1940

It would be better if he were retired.


48 posted on 04/02/2014 12:21:37 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: don-o

Sure. Why not. Reid has lied, in our face and proudly, about everything else. Why not this?


49 posted on 04/02/2014 12:22:46 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Neither do money-laundering mobsters.

Thanks don-o.


50 posted on 04/02/2014 12:30:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: don-o

Hmm..., Is that like Obama’s favorite contributor Warren Buffet not paying corporate taxes?


51 posted on 04/02/2014 12:35:15 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Now i see your point. Feckless Dems are more likely to retire than ones with feck. It is a good thing Reid is feckless.


52 posted on 04/02/2014 12:59:34 PM PDT by Lisbon1940
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To: Lisbon1940

I’d like him to BE retired. I’d have preferred that Sharron Angle have been given the support she needed to do the job.

And as for fecklessness, feel free to grade me on the quality of my usage.


53 posted on 04/02/2014 1:01:34 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: Lisbon1940

Reid is hiding on the senate floor because he has “lie immunity” for anything he lies about on the floor.

the effete media like him because he gives the kook statement de jour.


54 posted on 04/02/2014 1:01:50 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: don-o

Why not? It worked out great for him the last time he made that charge.


55 posted on 04/02/2014 1:22:21 PM PDT by jim_trent
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To: DManA

CBS Touts Dem Effort to Make Koch Brothers ‘Public Enemy Number One’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3140065/posts

The Presstitutes will help spread the lie


56 posted on 04/02/2014 2:53:33 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: VerySadAmerican

I think moveon.org got it’s name from a republican comment.

No, it was to whitewash Billy’s fun with Monica.


57 posted on 04/02/2014 3:00:15 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: don-o
Soros, the moneybags of the left, has spent $36 million in the last several years funding politicians and the left’s political machine. He also gave $550 million to liberal causes in 2000-2009...

From Fox News

RNC..Where are youuuuu !!

58 posted on 04/02/2014 3:23:09 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: bassmaner
Corporations don't pay taxes.

C-Corporations pay income tax.

59 posted on 04/02/2014 3:28:10 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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60 posted on 04/04/2014 9:41:19 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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