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Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes

admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:19:21 +0000

recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding “unintentional errors”—the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee. The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that the administration released. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home [...]

REV. AL’S HALF-PRICE DEAL ON $1.8M TAXES – New York Post

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:36:15 +0000

The Rev. Al Sharpton owed at least $1.8 million in back taxes before striking a sweetheart deal with the feds last summer that chopped the bill almost in half and kept him out of the slammer, The Post has learned.

A series of federal liens — the most recent of which was filed earlier this month — provide a window into the massive tax debts the firebrand activist incurred since 2002 as he remade himself into a millionaire media personality, newly released documents show.

Treasury Department officers say Sharpton owed $351,798 from 2007, according to a document filed March 3 with the New York County Register Office.

This unpaid balance — a potential mix of back taxes and penalties — comes on top of a federal lien filed last Nov. 13 for $1,367,521 covering tax years 2005 and 2006.

via REV. AL’S HALF-PRICE DEAL ON $1.8M TAXES – New York Post.

NEW ERA OF SPEND & BLAME – New York Post

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:23:52 +0000

FOR a guy who talks so much about wanting a new era of re sponsibility, President Obama spends an awful lot of time blaming Republicans for all the wild and reckless spending he crammed into his own budget.

After running a campaign against the $1 trillion deficit he “inherited” from President Bush and the Republicans, Obama quickly matched it. During his first 50 days in office, he and his Democratic-controlled Congress spent $1 billion an hour.

Under Obama’s proposed budget, the overall national debt doubles in five years and triples in 10.

Not exactly “moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest,” as he promised.

How does Mr. Responsibility explain the disconnect between this reality and his absurd claims? By insisting that Republicans were worse.

“To a bunch of the critics out there, I’ve already said, show me your budget” he told a gathering of wealthy Democratic donors this week. “I’m happy to have that debate.”

Or, another time: “I suspect that some of those Republican critics have a short memory, because as I recall I’m inheriting a $1.3 trillion deficit, annual deficit, from them.”

via NEW ERA OF SPEND & BLAME – New York Post.

‘Living within our means’

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:54:16 +0000

Whatever happened to the idea of leading by example? While Washington is borrowing a trillion here and a trillion there, the president is lecturing the rest of us to start living within our means. Not content with bankrupting the government, Obama and the Democrats seem intent on literally bankrupting the U.S. economy – and maybe [...]