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Fair Share: Obama Staffers
Owe $833,970 in Back Taxes
National Review Online, by Daniel Foster
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Posted By:earlybird, 12/13/2012 12:30:23 PM
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| This is your regular reminder that the best taxers aren’t always the best taxees: A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama’s executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. This per the IRS. Federal employees as a group owe a whopping $3.4 billion in unpaid taxes, including 1,181 employees of the Treasury Department delinquent on a total of $9.3 million in taxes. (But do you recall the most famous delinquent of all? Tim Geithner had to pay $42,000 in back taxes before his confirmation as Treasury Secretary.)
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
phx4546, 12/13/2012 12:35:26 PM (No. 9063601)
there is a saving...stop paying them next year.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 12/13/2012 12:38:56 PM (No. 9063607)
How much in student loans do they owe (and have no intention of ever paying)?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/13/2012 12:40:53 PM (No. 9063616)
I think everyone paying the same tax rate, be it 5% or 20% whatever is FAIR..the more you make the more you pay, but EVERYONE pays. FAIR !
Picking and choosing certain Americans to be penalized is UNfair.
Having the government pick and choose what´s fair is UNfair and dangerous.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 12/13/2012 12:51:44 PM (No. 9063644)
This is really simple. Garnish 25% a year of the back taxes owed from their paychecks this year and then repeat for the next 3 years. This is increased revenue that Obama can absolutely guarantee will receive bipartisan support.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snowcloud, 12/13/2012 1:04:29 PM (No. 9063667)
Can´t go after them. They´re speeeeeecial, remember?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 12/13/2012 1:09:05 PM (No. 9063677)
I bet they all get bonus checks at the end of the year! Liberal fairness!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JonR, 12/13/2012 1:17:04 PM (No. 9063695)
Here Is an example of fair brought to you by your liberal elite. Just keep in mind that the rules that apply to you and me do not apply to these people. Next time you listen to Obama prattle on about everybody paying their fair share you might remember this!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy, 12/13/2012 1:38:31 PM (No. 9063735)
In hypocritical news, the IRS can disallow people to prepare tax returns who owe them money, yet it is apparently acceptable to be employed there and owe them money.
Garnish the entire lot of them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mr. Know-It-All, 12/13/2012 2:24:01 PM (No. 9063797)
That would pay for a whole truckload of 0bamaphones!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
disasterman, 12/13/2012 3:11:24 PM (No. 9063849)
If only they had paid those taxes, the government could have gone 12.5 seconds without borrowing any money for the month of November.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
realrep, 12/13/2012 3:50:31 PM (No. 9063914)
Some of us are more equal (or fair) than others.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hotcorner, 12/13/2012 4:21:08 PM (No. 9063989)
Ask this question at Obama´s next press conference - why is this allowed to continue?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
dittohead, 12/13/2012 4:57:59 PM (No. 9064076)
And where are our Republican reps and why aren´t they going after these people?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Stopstoreload, 12/13/2012 5:50:03 PM (No. 9064145)
It just keeps on keeping on. When does enough become enough?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
eorsc, 12/13/2012 10:14:37 PM (No. 9064491)
Take it out of their pay. Lindsey Lohan is in trouble for $16,000 and Al Sharpton owes $3 M. and is running free? I guess it depends on the color of your skin.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 12/14/2012 12:53:27 AM (No. 9064611)
The real question should be is IRS penalizing them daily and garnishing wages like the peeons ?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Twiggy, 12/14/2012 2:02:33 AM (No. 9064663)
That´s exactly what I would like to know. They keep reporting this but what are they doing about it. It should be taken out of their pay like they would do for any of us.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/14/2012 5:10:37 AM (No. 9064730)
´Fair share´ is only for the little people. Remember good ol Leona Helmsley?
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