Not Us, But You, Should Pay Taxes

In light of the latest John Kerry kerfuffle about his moving his yacht around to avoid taxes he's voted for, promotes and loves, here's some reminders.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., avoided paying $500,000 in taxes on his yacht.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets to the IRS. He writes national tax law, and he didn't know he had to pay taxes on half a million that just showed up in his bank account?

Tom Daschle, Obama's first health and human services nominee, failed to pay $128,000 in taxes. oooops! he "forgot" to pay his taxes. Nomination had to be withdrawn.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner failed to pay $34,000 in taxes. This is the guy that wrote off sending his daughter to summer camp.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her husband had to pay $7,000 in back taxes.

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis' husband had a tax lien on his business for 16 years.

Nancy Killefer, on deck to be the White House chief performance officer, had a $900 lien on her house for failing to pay unemployment taxes for household help.

Lael Brainard, Obama's nominee for undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs, paid his property taxes late.

Remember Biden's quip about it being patriotic to pay taxes? "It's time to be patriotic...". I tithe more per year than $millionaire Biden gave to charity during the decade before he became vice president. He cares about regular folks don't ya see.

Then these guys write tax laws that give breaks for themselves and friends. Much provable truth in the observation that Republicans get rich and get into politics, and Democrats get into politics and get rich.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Now I'm getting testy.

Michael Moore claims to hate big oil and defense contractors. He claims to own no stocks because it's capitalist. In fact he owns (or owned) shares in Halliburton, Boeing, and Honeywell. He's a big union guy, but has been know to go up to Canada to do film work so he doesn't have to pay union thug wages.

Noam Chomsky, darling of communists, rages against private property and the defense industry. He has made $millions doing defense contract work. He owns property too.

The intolerant hate spewing diva Barbara Streisand is a big time green. She is (or was) part owner of a strip mining company. She owns all kinds of property, houses, big gas guzzling vehicles. It would take me a century with my current life style to leave a carbon footprint the size of the one she leaves in a year.

I love this one. Pro abortion activist Hillary Clinton, that supports teenage girls getting abortions without parental notification, would not let her teenage daughter get her ears pierced. By the way, Chelsea's wedding is going to cost $3-$5 million now that she's all growed up. "I feel your pain." How about, Chelsea, not taking a page out of your hypocritical parents book, and donate $5 million to poor people, or have a wedding fund so poor people can have cool weddings?

Nancy Pelosi supports, she says, unionized farm workers. Even got a Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers in 2002. She and her husband own vineyards in California, and go out of their way to avoid paying union thug labor to pick their grapes.

Then today there was a story about Barney Frank, that tried to stiff a ferry (too good but I'll skip it) for a buck, demanding he get the $1 senior citizen discount. He didn't have the seniors' card so was denied and he turned into a whiny drama queen. He was going to Fire Island to his favorite gay bar. What the hell is a seventy year old doing trolling bars for sex, regardless of gender. geeeeez....that's disgusting.

“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.” Edmund Burke

These rats are gnawing through the dike of fiscal responsibility and good governance with their teeth of greed, lies and hypocrisy; and drowning us in $trillions of debt and impoverishing us with high taxes they themselves try not to pay.

Pelosi Drains the Swamp-Not

Remember when the Dems were voted into the majority in Congress, and Pelosi said the culture of corruption will end, and transparency and honesty would reign supreme?

Charlie Rangel, Ways and Means Committee Chairman, that writes laws to take away the money you make to pay themselves and buy power, aka taxes, is even a bigger tax cheat than "tax cheat" U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Geithner is responsible for the IRS, the tax guys. We know he didn't pay taxes for years, took illegal deductions, and the rest. Looks like Rangel is even a bigger cheat that controls taxes.

Rangel has been lying and avoiding taxes at least for a decade. Usually when a person is caught doing something, there's a history of it before it's recognized. Rangle has over a million dollars of sheltered stuff he didn't claim. He claims it was just an honest oversight. How do you overlook that much money? How did a lifetime politician making a hundred something thousand a year become a multi-millionaire? What did he produce? What business did he manage? What has he contributed? Nothing. He's a leach and the Dems yesterday let him off the hook, and he will not be removed from office and all ethics violations will be dropped. No penalties and no sanctions. Not even a reprimand.

By the way, three RINO's voted to not penalize Rangel, King (NY), Rohrbacher & Young (AK). The final vote was 243-156. 19 voted present. Why do politicians get to vote present? To my mind, you're for something or against it. We need procedural rules. No voting present.

I just don't get either, that corrupt politicos like Rangel, Waters, Corzine, Kennedy (RIP) keep getting re-elected. They're huge cheats, like the governor and legislature of Massachusetts, When Romney was governor, the legislature changed the law so he couldn't appoint to fill and empty senate seat. Now that there's a Dem governor, the legislature gave that power back to the governor to fill Kennedy's seat. Or when Corzine was elected, his predecessor was in big trouble and was going to loose the election. Corzine was drafted, but it was within 50 days, and was illegal to file. State supreme court overruled the law, and Corzine was in. Massive cheating. Okay with politicians, and people elect and re-elect these guys.

The Black Caucus, Congressman Rangel and the Double Standard

The Congressional Black Caucus, still existing in a 'post-racial' administration in Amerika, are saying Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), should keep his seat as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee (that writes tax law) and no doubt has the support of tax cheat Treasury Secretary Geitner (that didn't pay much of his taxes, and aggressively pursues 'tax cheats') is giving the guy a pass.

Rangel has submitted amended financial disclosure forms nearly doubling his net worth. Amended forms show Rangel had at least $650,000 in undisclosed income. He didn't disclose to the IRS or on his financial disclosure forms $75,000 in rental income for a beach villa in the Dominican Republic. He didn't claim three primary residences, or that he had for four rent-controlled apartments, or that he used congressional letterhead stationary to solicit donations for an education center bearing his name at City College of New York, all of which I think may possibly violate House rules. You think?

Black Caucus members: Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)- “I do not see any change in any time in the future or near future.” “I think it’s important for the ethics committee to play the role it should and be allowed to do its job.

“I think he’s a very strong chairman and has done a great job with the healthcare issue on the committee.” “Right before the recess, he chaired the committee for several hours — and did it very well.”

Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.):“Members amend financial disclosure reports all the time — they are amendable.” “This is what we want members of Congress to do if there are mistakes.”

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.): “He knows how to pull people together — he’s a coalition-builder.” “I would encourage people to look at the whole Rangel.”

Rangel has never built a coalition. He's an extreme partisan. To him a compromise is when weak RHINO's go along with him. He's a race baiter and tax cheat. If he can make all the "mistakes" regarding his own tax liability, what's he doing writing tax law? I guess it's okay with the Dems and Obama since they have Geitner enforcing tax laws he doesn't obey himself.

Of course if Rangel were a Republican, he would already have been forced to resign his position and be under investigation.

So in a post-partisan, post racial Amerika, we have hyper-racists and partisans, members of Congress, turning a blind eye to the criminal activity of one of "their own". Good grief.