Arianna, the Preachy Progressive

Associated Press, La Times | 8/13/03

[billhilly]

Does $700 dollars in federal income taxes and no state taxes qualify one to run for governor in California. Apparantly it does if you are Arianna Huffington. The Los Angeles times is reporting today that Arianna released her tax filings for the past two years. Her corporation paid no taxes.

[billhilly]

I thought you would ask.

http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California/CA_Recall_Huffington_115034C.shtml

[billhilly]

Apparantly = Apparently

[WL-law]

Interesting. Arianna's income numbers show that she lives totally off her alimony, and that her 'public persona' is very much a money-losing proposition. Basically, her ex-husband pays to keep Arianna in the public eye. And she's in a sense spending her kid's money to feed her ego.

And then she says that since she has more "starpower", that the true green-activist types should roll over and support her candidacy, all the while while she jets about running in front of every camera she can.

Wow. That about says it all about the dem-leftist aristocratic mentality.

[Dante3]

She sure is unqualified. I would vote for her, however, if it was a runoff between her and the smut dealer.

[DB]

At that point it is probably time to move.

[goldstategop]

I'm hardly surprised. Liberals talk the talk about paying taxes but hardly ever give the government they love what it needs. Arnold paid far more than the Greek Harpy in taxes. And yet for some reason the liberals consider Arianna their heroine! Go figure...

[Catspaw]

Arianna's income numbers show that she lives totally off her alimony, and that her 'public persona' is very much a money-losing proposition. Basically, her ex-husband pays to keep Arianna in the public eye. And she's in a sense spending her kid's money to feed her ego.

Alimony is taxable to the recipient. Child support is not. I didn't see alimony listed in the LA Times article as income.

[goldstategop]

It doesn't surprise me. She's basically been an opportunist from day one. Arianna is not so much concerned with principles as with doing whatever it takes to keep her in the headlines.

[jammer]

There is no documentation in your post, but from what you wrote, her CORPORATION paid little or no taxes. That's not the same thing as "she paid no taxes." I despise her, but isn't that misleading? Or is there other information available?

[Lib-Lickers 2]

no wonder her ex went fag,,, she's a know it all to the extreme,, wants us all to use dinky cars to save energy but she lives in a 12 thousand square ft. home with two kids,,,

[goldstategop]

So she used tax shelters and other legal dodges. It just illustrates the gap between her pose of populist outrage and her doing whatever takes to live high on the hog in beautiful Bel Air.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

Fox News just reported it too,

[goldstategop]

And her phony Prius. That was before she decided her SUV would cause her to fall out of favor with the fruits & nuts circle she moved about in...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Here is a direct link to the LA Times that you don't have to sign up for.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ariannatax14aug14,1,6892870.story?coll=la-headlines-california

[WL-law]

I'm reasoning from the evidence not shown. What we see in her numbers is that she loses money, big money, from her career as a 'personality'. Therefore she must subsidize it with her other assets, i.e., her alimony and child-support income.

[WL-law]

The link I read said she paid no corporate taxes AND no personal federal taxes. I was very surprised.

[WL-law]

The link I read said she paid no corporate taxes AND no personal federal taxes. I was very surprised.

[goldstategop]

What a shock! This is the same Arianna that has accused Republicans of favoring the wealthy over average folks. But when it comes to her own condition, she doesn't mind benefiting from the Republican policies she finds hard to stomach!

[Catspaw]

I'm reasoning from the evidence not shown. What we see in her numbers is that she loses money, big money, from her career as a 'personality'. Therefore she must subsidize it with her other assets, i.e., her alimony and child-support income.

She may have also set up the corp so it shows a loss, to offset income & profits from other sources.