more patriotic taxpayers missing

alright, i didnt want to write again about politicians not paying their taxes but im getting tired of seeing it in the news so often. todays tax evasion story is a woman in massachusetts, running for state AUDITOR no less, that thinks its ok to claim two residencies as her primary home therefore receiving tax exemptions twice. in the article she states that she is completely within the "letter and spirit of the law." sure.

didnt vice president biden not long ago scold us that its patriotic to pay taxes?

i originally started this post and then let it sit for awhile because of previous posts about paying/not paying taxes. the story that prompted it was about residents of nantucket that are looking to pay less in property taxes. basically all the residents on seaside hulbert ave have asked for a tax abatement. some of these residents include family members that own/operate fidelity investments, ceo of gillette, a former NFL team owners, and of course senator john kerry.

this of course is the same senator kerry that was recently caught mooring his massive $7 million yacht in rhode island though he claims his intention was never to avoid paying $500,000 massachusetts taxes on it. yup.

a few years ago massachusetts voted to lower the tax rate from 5.85% to 5.3% and there was a massive outcry that this would result in cuts to necessary programs and services. in order to help solve this problem the state said that they would allow taxpayers to continue to pay the "voluntary right tax"" instead of the new lower amount. in 2008, a total of 1953 residents in the state or roughly 0.02% of the population opted to pay the higher amount.

joe biden must be disappointed in all of us.


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pay up

everyone knows that paying taxes is necessary in order for our government and society to function properly. but no one likes to pay them. including many federal employees and aides within the oval office.

the washington post has done some excellent investigative journalism and found that over 280,000 capitol hill employees owe $9.3 million in back taxes! and apparently $9 million is the general amount owed year to year, making it one of the few non-partisan agreements between the republican and democratic parties.






















you can check the sortable list of departments that owe taxes for yourself but heres some highlights:
** white house aides -- 41 people for $831,000
** house of representatives -- 421 people for $6.5 million
** senate -- 217 people for $2.7 million
** labor department -- 463 people for $7.4 million
** federal reserve -- 81 people for $1.0 million
** justice department -- 1971 people for $14.3 million
** homeland security -- 4856 people for $37 million
** health & human services -- 2841 people for $37.3 million

so ive been audited several times over the past few years and in a couple cases owed another $1000. yet the IRS cant seem to track down the federal employees who every year owe $9 million? a spokesman for the group taxpayers for common sense states in the article that since congress writes the tax laws that they need to be held to a higher standard in regards to paying their taxes. how about we begin with that they are held to the SAME standards as everyone else.

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