Posted on 04/22/2015 1:28:17 PM PDT by grundle
And he’s just one of the network’s four tax scofflaws
Touré Neblett, co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle, owes more than $59,000 in taxes, according to public records reviewed by National Review. In September 2013, New York issued a state tax warrant to Neblett and his wife, Rita Nakouzi, for $46,862.68. Six months later, the state issued an additional warrant to the couple for $12,849.87.
In January 2014, Neblett tweeted, “Regressive taxation & tax-avoidance & union crushing & the financial corruption of legislation has fueled inequality more than hard work.” In 2012, he also criticized Republican politicians, saying they were “all afraid to vote for a modest tax increase of people who can totally afford it.” MSNBC’s hosts and guests regularly call for higher taxes on the rich, condemning wealthy individuals and corporations who don’t pay their taxes or make use of loopholes. But recent reports, as well as records reviewed by National Review, show that at least four high-profile MSNBC on-air personalities have tax liens or warrants filed against them.
Last month, New York filed a $4,948.15 tax warrant against Joy-Ann Reid, who serves as managing editor of theGrio.com and until earlier this year hosted MSNBC’s The Reid Report, and her husband, Jason. Reid has called taxes on the wealthy “a basic fairness argument,” also arguing for “smart spending and smart tax increases” to create economic growth. NR could not reach Neblett or Reid directly, despite sending e-mails to them directly and asking for comment through an MSNBC spokesperson. Representatives for Neblett and Reid said their tax debts were in the process of being resolved.
Last week, the Winston-Salem Journal reported that Melissa Harris-Perry, who hosts an MSNBC show named after herself, and her husband, James Perry, owed around $70,000 in delinquent taxes, according to a federal lien filed in April 2015. Harris-Perry told the newspaper that she and her husband had made a $21,721 payment toward that debt on Tax Day. “We actually do better as a country when we spread the wealth around,” Harris-Perry has said. She has also quoted Obama, calling income inequality “the fundamental threat to the American dream.” She called for Republican lawmakers to acknowledge that “the growing income disparity in America is, in fact, you know, a real thing,” adding that “they would have to decide if, ideologically, it’s an issue worth addressing, and if so, if it is the government’s problem to fix.” In April 2010, Harris-Perry had tweeted: “Sorry tweeps, I am a total progressive, liberal, Donkey loving Dem, but man I have a big tax burden this year. #willgetcoffeeinstead.”
Meanwhile, Al Sharpton’s tax problems have been the subject of extensive coverage by National Review and other publications. In November, the New York Times estimated that Sharpton and his entities owed as much as $4.5 million in taxes, penalties, and interest, a sum the MSNBC host disputes. This isn’t Neblett’s first brush with controversy. In 2012, the host eventually apologized after using the n-word on-air, claiming that Mitt Romney’s word choices in campaign speeches amounted to “racial coding” against President Obama. In 2014, Neblett again issued an apology after a Twitter exchange in which he suggested that the success of concentration-camp survivors who emigrated to the U.S. was attributable to “the power of whiteness.”
As to the current tax controversies of its hosts, MSNBC declined NR’s request for comment. We wanted to know whether the network thought that pushing for bigger taxes for the wealthy was hypocritical, given failure of MSNBC’s own high-paid hosts to meet their fundamental tax obligations. Silence from the network on that, and little else.
Interesting how these liberals won’t pay their own taxes, as they call for higher taxes on the wealthy. And these people are among the wealthiest among us.
Al Sharpton has explained that what he owes are “old taxes”. So apparently if you owe “old taxes”, as opposed to current year taxes, then that’s your excuse, and you are exempt from criticism, and apparently exempt from collection actions too.
Liberals think that only other people should have to pay taxes. They believe their self righteousness should be enough.
Reparations?
Rats: Taxes for Thee But Not For Me!!
How many of these tax cheats are black? Just askin’.
What did you folks expect from Obamabot, liberal, Democrat, low life, MSNBC vermin?
I bet he has garnishment levies for child support as well.
Must be a cultural thing?
My brain wanted to ask that question...
It’s a rat thing.
Conservatives complain about, but pay their taxes.
Liberals laud taxes by don’t pay them.
Why that would be four of four Ozzy. Maybe all the white tax cheats at MSNBC get a pass because of their white privilege.
Never heard of any of them (of course cause they’re on PMSNBC) but I’m not surprised these liberals complain that we don’t pay enough when they don’t bother to pay any!
I only owe $70K? Tut-tut, tis a mere bag of shells.
“How many of these tax cheats are black? Just askin’.”
All of them!
Always wondered what a Turd Blossom looked like. Thanks for posting the pic.
White people need to pay more taxes!
Aren’t their salaries subject to withholding? Do they do so much work outside of MSNBC that is not subject to withholding that they build up that large a tax liability?
Maybe they view paying taxes as a form of tipping.
Because, well, never mind.
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