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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by Jammie
We really are living in bizarro world. Here we have the president demanding
the producers to cough up more and more in taxes and he brings in a racist
tax cheat to help spread his message of redistribution. Really sick when you
think about it.
Do you think Al Sharpton appreciates the irony of his being invited to
the White House Tuesday to talk taxes with President Obama?
That is, to talk about Obama’s plan to ram through steep tax hikes on
the “rich” to resolve the fiscal-cliff crisis?
Sharpton’s all about taxes — for others.
For himself, well, maybe not so much.
As The Post’s Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein reported last year,
Sharpton “owe[d] the IRS $2.6 million in income tax, and nearly $900,000 in
state tax.”
And his personal pride and joy National Action Network owed more than $
880,000 in unpaid federal payroll taxes, interest and penalties, Vincent and
Klein found.
Which makes Obama’s decision to invite Sharpton (and several other
MSNBC hosts) baffling. Why ask a man with a terminal case of tax allergies
to make the case for higher rates for everybody else?
The Rev’s issues go back decades: In 1993, for example, he pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor tax crime to avoid two felony charges.
In the years since, the IRS has issued a dozen liens against Sharpton’s
groups, including one against him for $538,652 in 2010.
Asked about all this yesterday — specifically, whether he’s gotten
square with the tax man — Sharpton said simply that he has “resolved all
matters.”
But his spokeswoman later refused to respond to a simple question: Has
Sharpton actually paid his taxes?
Highly doubtful. |
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