Posted on 03/09/2019 7:47:48 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to pass sweeping tax hikes on the wealthy, but the freshman lawmaker might want to take care of her own unpaid tax bill first.
Brook Avenue Press, a company she founded in 2012 to publish children’s books in The Bronx, owes the state $1,870.36 in corporate taxes, public records show.
The state slapped the company with a warrant on July 6, 2017, two months after Ocasio-Cortez announced her candidacy to run against Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley for the district that encompasses parts of Queens and The Bronx.
The state requires businesses to pay a corporation tax on a sliding scale based on revenue. The minimum payment last year was $25.
“The company probably got numerous letters from the state and probably ignored them,” one New York City accountant theorized.
Public records show the state dissolved the company in October 2016, which can happen when a business fails to pay corporate taxes or file a return.
The state Tax Department won’t comment on individual companies but typically files warrants as a last resort after trying to collect money.
“This is the first we’re hearing of it, and we won’t have any additional comment until we look into it,” Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman, Corbin Trent, said Saturday.
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Can’t remember any arrest, but I’m old.
IIRC, once the tax evasion was made public he paid what was owed. Not sure if that included interest and penalties.
Consider it just a qualification for Democrats running for high office.
Sounds fishy. Wouldn’t she have only been 22 back then - did she already know how to launder money?
That she could read....
I doubt it; the House just passed a resolution that they let Ilhan Omar turn into a anti-islamaphobia and racism card. Oh, yeah, and I guess they let anti-Semitism prohibition in there, too, but anybody with a brain knows you can’t be for Islam AND Israel.
Daily Caller article on AOC's prior life as an entrepreneur
Here's my guess at what happened to derail her career path:
1. She graduated from Boston University with a degree that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.
2. She really believed the nonsense they taught about changing the world and doing whatever she wanted to do.
3. So she started her own company (nothing wrong with that at all) and went around acting and sounding like a successful person in business -- even to the point where she was invited back to BU to give presentations on entrepreneurship.
4. It turns out she didn't have a clue about running a business, and some of the quotes here illustrate a comical naiveté that borders on delusion:
- "You see a huge return on your investment here. People pay $500 an hour for consulting that we get for free by the water cooler." ... Yes, that water cooler bullsh!t was worth exactly what she paid for it.
- "Don’t try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken." ... She obviously couldn't run her own business on clichés, but that didn't stop her from pretending she knew what the hell she was talking about.
5. After a few years of this she found herself with a failed business, a mountain of college debt, and a worthless college degree. She needed to put away her delusions and find a real job.
This is how this "entrepreneur" with a degree from Boston University ended up working as a bartender at the age of 28.
So, Al Sharpton still owes and he’s got a TV show
Interesting.
And these days she doesn’t know much more and is literally the mouthpiece for her radical chief of staff. Who eats hamburgers.
I’m surprised we don’t see puppet strings on top of her head.
Taxes are for working people not the ruling elite. What Democrat or professional politician Republican has ever practiced what they as said. That’s why they’re never Trumpers. They feel the change coming. Term limits and government for the people by the people.
Here's an interesting Twitter thread researching AOC's rise to power.
One excerpt:
BNC is Saikat Chakrabarti and AOC so far is the most successful of the 400 heads.
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