OMG..Charlie Rangel slips higher tax cheat penalties into Health Care Bill

[Bill Justice]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09012009/news/nationalnews/hypocrite_charlie__punish_tax_slip_ups_187541.htm


The changes approved by the House Ways and Means Committee that Rangel chairs would strip away legal defenses and pile higher penalties on corporate and individual taxpayers facing IRS proceedings for what they claim are unintentional mistakes, experts said.

Rangel has got to be the biggest hypocrite of the year..unbelieveable..:angry:


http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0809/Buffalo_News_Rangel_should_resign.html



Now, it gets worse. Newly-filed disclosures show that Rangel failed to report at least half a million dollars in assets in 2007. They also show that his net worth is between $1 million and $2.5 million, or about twice what he claimed in 2008.

[Bill Justice]

Taxes? I don't have to pay any steenkeen taxes.

You must be one of those politicians who want to raise taxes because you don't pay them yourself.,

[Barbara2]

You must be one of those politicians who want to raise taxes because you don't pay them yourself.,

I believe that was one of those tongue-in-cheek posts. IMO

(And maybe yours was too and I totally missed the humor. Dang it!)

[Pat]

As I said in another post about this same subject...Rangel is a crook in the finest Congressional tradition. IMO :laugh:

[Details]

I don't get something here.

OK. So - heavier penalties for a crime - sounds good to me - right? Anyone have a problem with penalizing those jerks who figure everyone ELSE should pay for their roads, military, police, etc.? That paying taxes is for the poor and middle class, for those who work for their money, rather than for those who are smart enough to inherit it, etc.? This is a good thing.

Now - if the guy proposing it is someone who will be one of those penalized - how is this anything but still a good thing? One little bit of honesty or good intentions? I don't know the full story on his situation - but this is a good thing, IMO.

[orangetaffy]

I don't get something here.

OK. So - heavier penalties for a crime - sounds good to me - right? Anyone have a problem with penalizing those jerks who figure everyone ELSE should pay for their roads, military, police, etc.? That paying taxes is for the poor and middle class, for those who work for their money, rather than for those who are smart enough to inherit it, etc.? This is a good thing.

Now - if the guy proposing it is someone who will be one of those penalized - how is this anything but still a good thing? One little bit of honesty or good intentions? I don't know the full story on his situation - but this is a good thing, IMO.

Because, as we have seen time and time again in the past months...these laws dont seem to apply to the very people who make them. How many congressmen, senators, staff members have we now heard of who have major tax issues??

[Details]

Because, as we have seen time and time again in the past months...these laws dont seem to apply to the very people who make them. How many congressmen, senators, staff members have we now heard of who have major tax issues??But the laws DO apply to them. While Congress has a long and shameful record of making some workplace laws not apply to them - tax laws apply to everyone. They'll apply to him. How many congressmen, senators, staff members have had to pay these penalties, fix their taxes, same as anyone else?

And the right thing to do is the right thing - no matter who is doing it.

I can see outrage if he were writing in options for lower penalties, creating new loopholes for himself - but that isn't what I'm reading here.

[orangetaffy]

But the laws DO apply to them. While Congress has a long and shameful record of making some workplace laws not apply to them - tax laws apply to everyone. They'll apply to him. How many congressmen, senators, staff members have had to pay these penalties, fix their taxes, same as anyone else?

And the right thing to do is the right thing - no matter who is doing it.

I can see outrage if he were writing in options for lower penalties, creating new loopholes for himself - but that isn't what I'm reading here.

He has had tax issues for years. isnt like its a one time mistake. It is a repeat thing with him.

[Bill Justice]

Because, as we have seen time and time again in the past months...these laws dont seem to apply to the very people who make them. How many congressmen, senators, staff members have we now heard of who have major tax issues??



Not to mention the Treasury Secretary..oh...who reports to him?? The commissoner of IRS..what a joke. :tonguewag: