Why don't liberals pay their taxes?
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2013/02/18 19:53:24
Daily Caller reports:
"Just last week, Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu argued during a Capitol Hill hearing that the government needs
more tax revenue.But in a twist of hypocrisy, the Louisiana senator and her husband appear to have not yet paid $1,206.95 in tax penalties to the District of Columbia government on their Capitol Hill home, The Daily Caller has learned."
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With an income tax...any income tax.... your money is INVOLUNTARILY SEIZED!
With a sales tax, your money is voluntarily PAID!
Real tax reform would be to abolish our 72,000 page punitive tax code that rewards failure and poverty while punishing success and good business choices, and replace it with a fair, flat national sales tax as outlined in the 130 page FairTax bill (HR-25/S113)
The people who are morally un-ethical like this(Assuming this really is a malignant effort to defraud our government for this Landrieu person), should of course be held accountable for their actions. I simply view the generalizations made in this post as not being of high standards for accurate portrayal of wide-spread information.
This is why conservatives tend to be more vulnerable to the “hypocrite” charge: you have to have morals and values in the first place to be a hypocrite. If your attitude is everything goes, yes, you’re not going to be a hypocrite, but you’re a pretty lousy human being.
Of course liberals, being liberals, want to have it both ways. They don’t want to stand up for moral values, but they want to be considered just as moral as the people who do.
However, the hard, cold reality is that on the whole, liberals just aren’t as moral as conservatives,
I simply don't really view the religious thing as being integral to being morally righteous though. Liberals have different values and such that they work for, but it isn't to say that they don't have any. It would fall much more in the way of general ethics though, instead of into the idea of values. Secular Humanism type ideas instead of religious connotations regarding moral law.
Other countries often can have lower trends of violence and ov...
I simply don't really view the religious thing as being integral to being morally righteous though. Liberals have different values and such that they work for, but it isn't to say that they don't have any. It would fall much more in the way of general ethics though, instead of into the idea of values. Secular Humanism type ideas instead of religious connotations regarding moral law.
Other countries often can have lower trends of violence and overall social problems despite having less christian, or religious populations total. Prime example would be Sweden, with a very high non-religious rate, yet being ranked superior to other predominantly christian countries in Corruption Indexes. Germany might make a good example as well, although since there exists a widespread disparity between the East which would be less religious as a result of the years under the German Democratic Republic vs. the Federal Republic of Germany with a much better track record on freedom of religion, which makes it harder to judge. Various highly secular countries score around the US level as well, such as France. Although it is possible that internal sub-divisions make the countries correlate less effectively to the religions/non religions corruption comparison, the relative mixing of nations at the top with various nations of larger numbers of non-religious citizens and those nations with larger numbers of religious ones would make it appear to me that it would be hard to gain an effective national track level between religious and non-religious elements. This is somewhat borne out in the US too, where some non-religious elements like Atheists have lower imprisonment rates. This isn't to necessarily favor them or to say that their particular conventions about the non-existance of a god means that they're better people, for it could easily be other factors such as overall wealth, but it is still an interesting factor. It would be interesting to see if you factor out poverty rates, geographic locations, and income levels if it would result in a similar, or dramatically changed result.
There is also the observation of different religious and ethnic groups overall, aside from western christianity. We generally do not consider the actions of the extremist Islamic elements "Moral" in the general code of the west, but it does have some spiritual basis for them. By out standards though, they are still "Lousy Human Beings" despite following their moral paths..
I just rambled on too long. Sorry, I was bored.
They are definitely most hypocritical people from healthcare (exempt)to taxes(loopholes) to guns(government provided security) even child rape(the democratic senator that had sex with underage prostitutes). If all there so called good ideas were so good why dont they start making themselves abide by the same law.
The liberal party has gone way off the deep end.
'For a man who keeps demanding that people pay their "fair share" he's sure surrounded himself with people who have dodged the taxes they currently owe. What a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites!!! It's no wonder he thinks people don't pay their "fair share" when his own close buddies don't ANYTHING.
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36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes
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How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.
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Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.
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Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.
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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. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven't paid any share, let alone their fair share.
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Previous reports have shown how well-paid Obama's White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. ...
'For a man who keeps demanding that people pay their "fair share" he's sure surrounded himself with people who have dodged the taxes they currently owe. What a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites!!! It's no wonder he thinks people don't pay their "fair share" when his own close buddies don't ANYTHING.
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36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes
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How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.
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Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.
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Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.
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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. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven't paid any share, let alone their fair share.
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Previous reports have shown how well-paid Obama's White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. That's up seven workers and nearly $4 million from the Bush administration's last year.
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Nearly one-third of Obama's aides make more than $100,000 with 21 being paid the top White House salary of $172,200, each.
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The IRS' 2010 delinquent tax revelations come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees' tax compliance. Turns out, an awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not paying their own income taxes.
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The report finds that thousands of federal employees owe the country more than $3.4 billion in back taxes. That's up 3% in the past year.
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That scale of delinquency could annoy voters, hard-pressed by their own costs, fears and stubbornly high unemployment despite Joe Biden's many promises.
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The tax offenders include employees of the U.S. Senate who help write the laws imposed on everyone else. They owe $2.1 million. Workers in the House of Representatives owe $8.5 million, Department of Education employees owe $4.3 million and over at Homeland Security, 4,697 workers owe about $37 million. Active duty military members owe more than $100 million.
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The Treasury Department, where Obama nominee Tim Geithner had to pay up $42,000 in his own back taxes before being confirmed as secretary, has 1,181 other employees with delinquent taxes totaling $9.3 million.
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As usual, the Postal Service, with more than 600,000 workers, has the most offenders (25,640), who also owe the most -- almost $270 million. Veterans Affairs has 11,659 workers owing the IRS $151 million while the Energy Department that was so quick to dish out more than $500 million to the Solyndra folks has 322 employees owing $5 million.
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The country's chief law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, has 2,069 employees who are nearly $17 million behind in taxes. Like Operation Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder has apparently missed them too.
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As with ordinary people, the IRS attempts to negotiate back-tax payment plans with all delinquents, whose names canot be released. But according to current federal law, the only federal employees who can be fired for not paying
taxes are IRS workers.