She wants to have a say in how our country is run, but she doesn't want to have to contribute her fair share.
Liberal activist and professional protester Cindy Sheehan is in trouble with the IRS over seven years of unpaid taxes, and this time, it's a fight that I hope the IRS wins.
But seriously, what else can you expect from a woman who disowned her son when he enlisted and then shed crocodile tears and rushed out to cash his military life insurance policy so she could use the money to carry on her anti-war hobby crusade.
To an extent I can feel some small measure of pity for her. When Bush was in office, she was the darling of the left and Nancy Pelosi's BFF, and she naturally came to believe that her star would never set so long as she could beat the adminstration over the head with her dead son. But all that changed when Obama took office and the Dems took over Congress. At that time, Cindy's usefulness was at an end and Pelosi started calling the Capitol Police on her in lieu of inviting her to Congresional functions. The media also responded to the Democrats' puppeteering and stopped covering her when she showed up at the White House. Crazy Cindy, as she came to be known, tried to keep her protest in the public eye, but she'd been abandoned literally overnight by those who used to support and encourage her because suddenly they were the ones in power and the woman who they used as a tool to embarrass the last administration was viewed as a pain-in-the-ass to this one. So it's no wonder that she went over the edge and lost what little piece of her mind that still functioned.
Now, desperate for attention of any kind, she's trying to turn her attempt to avoid paying her fair share--something that the liberals say that we all must do--into another shot at the brass ring of public acclaim. She wants to be famous again, and she wants to be loved and adored by the left.
Well good luck with that, Cindy, because trying to keep from handing over your cash to the government is on par with wanting to own guns or criticizing Obama--it's just not going to be tolerated.
Get her, IRS.
Showing posts with label tax evasion. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Monday, February 09, 2009
Another day, another Dem fails to pay his taxes.
This time it's DC Councilman and former mayor/convicted felon Marion "the bitch set me up" Barry.
Prosecutors are once again trying to have him jailed as he has once again not filed a tax return, the eight time in nine years.
But he's only a Democrat, so it won't hit the news like it would if, say, it were some conservative or a Republican.
Still, we can just add his name to the list of other politicians who aren't paying their fair share--Congressman Charlie Rangel and Obama cabinet picks Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer and the husband of Hilda Solis. (NOTE: All Democrats. Coincidence? I think not.)
And as wrong as this currently pending Stimulus bill being considered is--and it's plenty wrong--I'm thinking that don't need any stupid stimulus bill to fund our government...we just need to get the Democrats to pay their taxes.
Prosecutors are once again trying to have him jailed as he has once again not filed a tax return, the eight time in nine years.
Barry, 72, was given three years of probation in 2006 after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges for failing to file his tax returns from 1999 to 2004. As part of a plea bargain, he agreed to file future federal and local tax returns annually.How the hell does that work? I'm thinking that Magistrate Robinson is smoking some of the same crack that Barry can't seem to stay away from.
Two years ago, however, prosecutors sought to have that probation revoked after Barry failed to file his 2005 taxes. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson refused, ruling that prosecutors did not prove Barry willfully failed to file his returns, even if he was aware that he missed the deadline.
But he's only a Democrat, so it won't hit the news like it would if, say, it were some conservative or a Republican.
Still, we can just add his name to the list of other politicians who aren't paying their fair share--Congressman Charlie Rangel and Obama cabinet picks Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer and the husband of Hilda Solis. (NOTE: All Democrats. Coincidence? I think not.)
And as wrong as this currently pending Stimulus bill being considered is--and it's plenty wrong--I'm thinking that don't need any stupid stimulus bill to fund our government...we just need to get the Democrats to pay their taxes.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Three years in prison for Wesley Snipes
For trying to evade millions of dollars in taxes that you and I and every other American has to pay.
And you know what? I'm good with that.
The Snipes going to prison part, that is.
I'm not good with the excessive taxation that we're all subject to, thanks mostly to tax-and-spend Democrats trying to buy votes with handouts and bribes that they call "entitlements", and I also blame this current President, George W. Bush for his insane spending on nonessential budget items. But at least Bush had the brains to lower the taxes on the people, which led to increased spending and investment and a higher gross return to the government. Of course Hillary and Obama have each gone on record promising to raise taxes if one of them is elected President. They prefer to keep the Dem plan in effect where they tax the productive people and redistribute the money to the nonproductive (and their rich partisan backers) in exchange for votes.
But I digress. Back to Snipes. This joker hooked up with a couple of other crooks who helped him move his money to other countries and file fraudulent tax returns claiming that he didn't owe taxes because the federal government has no right to collect them. He also told his employees to stop paying taxes, and he tried to defraud the government into giving him back money that he'd already paid in taxes. He did this stuff knowingly and willfully and he knew that it was wrong. He belongs in prison along with his partners and I hope that he serves every day of the three years--one for each year that he refused to file taxes--that he was sentenced to.
Now that said, I still believe that Snipes was taxed too much. I think that we all are, quite frankly. But that doesn't mean that in this nation of laws, we can just defy the law or attempt to perpetrate fraud. What we need to do is demand real reform in Washington and our state governments and elect people who will cut taxes, cut out waste, refuse to accept earmarks and other pork, and eliminate programs and departments that are not central to the job of government--basically national security, courts, and the interstate infrastructure for the feds, and any other programs that each state's voters choose to enact AND PAY FOR without the feds helping them by redistributing the earnings of people in other states. If Massachusetts wants to give everyone health care, let them tax themselves to provide it. People who don't want the obscene tax rates that will follow will move out to other states, taking their jobs, income tax, goods and services with them. Let the states compete for taxpayers and big employers by offering as much or as little as the states' voters are willing to pay for, and let the federal government worry about the few core functions specifically delegated to it by the constitution. (Note: That doesn't include things like Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, and other social service handout departments. Those are all roles that should be filled (and paid for) by the states while the fed focuses on keeping us safe and performing the necessary limited interstate regulatory functions that the founders of this country allocated to it.
Maybe if we got back to the way this country was supposed to work, we all wouldn't end up working half the year just to pay our assorted taxes, most of which go to benefit other people instead of those of us who earn it. I don't begrudge Wesley Snipes his millions of dollars. He earned them, after all. They were his. In a perfect country, hew and you and I and everyone else would be free to keep most of what we earn and use it to enhance our individual lives. But we don't have a perfect country any more. We have one where Democrats and other tax-and-spenders have had control for too long. So until we all work together hard enough to outvote the panderers in Congress and the recipients of all of our lost tax dollars, we're all stuck in the same boat, and that means that we all have to abide by the same rules, and that includes you, me and Wesley Snipes.
It even includes pothead dropouts in Boulder and their over-indulgent rich parents.
And you know what? I'm good with that.
The Snipes going to prison part, that is.
I'm not good with the excessive taxation that we're all subject to, thanks mostly to tax-and-spend Democrats trying to buy votes with handouts and bribes that they call "entitlements", and I also blame this current President, George W. Bush for his insane spending on nonessential budget items. But at least Bush had the brains to lower the taxes on the people, which led to increased spending and investment and a higher gross return to the government. Of course Hillary and Obama have each gone on record promising to raise taxes if one of them is elected President. They prefer to keep the Dem plan in effect where they tax the productive people and redistribute the money to the nonproductive (and their rich partisan backers) in exchange for votes.
But I digress. Back to Snipes. This joker hooked up with a couple of other crooks who helped him move his money to other countries and file fraudulent tax returns claiming that he didn't owe taxes because the federal government has no right to collect them. He also told his employees to stop paying taxes, and he tried to defraud the government into giving him back money that he'd already paid in taxes. He did this stuff knowingly and willfully and he knew that it was wrong. He belongs in prison along with his partners and I hope that he serves every day of the three years--one for each year that he refused to file taxes--that he was sentenced to.
Now that said, I still believe that Snipes was taxed too much. I think that we all are, quite frankly. But that doesn't mean that in this nation of laws, we can just defy the law or attempt to perpetrate fraud. What we need to do is demand real reform in Washington and our state governments and elect people who will cut taxes, cut out waste, refuse to accept earmarks and other pork, and eliminate programs and departments that are not central to the job of government--basically national security, courts, and the interstate infrastructure for the feds, and any other programs that each state's voters choose to enact AND PAY FOR without the feds helping them by redistributing the earnings of people in other states. If Massachusetts wants to give everyone health care, let them tax themselves to provide it. People who don't want the obscene tax rates that will follow will move out to other states, taking their jobs, income tax, goods and services with them. Let the states compete for taxpayers and big employers by offering as much or as little as the states' voters are willing to pay for, and let the federal government worry about the few core functions specifically delegated to it by the constitution. (Note: That doesn't include things like Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, and other social service handout departments. Those are all roles that should be filled (and paid for) by the states while the fed focuses on keeping us safe and performing the necessary limited interstate regulatory functions that the founders of this country allocated to it.
Maybe if we got back to the way this country was supposed to work, we all wouldn't end up working half the year just to pay our assorted taxes, most of which go to benefit other people instead of those of us who earn it. I don't begrudge Wesley Snipes his millions of dollars. He earned them, after all. They were his. In a perfect country, hew and you and I and everyone else would be free to keep most of what we earn and use it to enhance our individual lives. But we don't have a perfect country any more. We have one where Democrats and other tax-and-spenders have had control for too long. So until we all work together hard enough to outvote the panderers in Congress and the recipients of all of our lost tax dollars, we're all stuck in the same boat, and that means that we all have to abide by the same rules, and that includes you, me and Wesley Snipes.
It even includes pothead dropouts in Boulder and their over-indulgent rich parents.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
More on those crazy Browns
It gets better. I couldn't make this sort of crap up.
From the Concord Monitor:
What squirrels. And what's even crazier is that there are actually other people out there who think that they're heroes. Maybe we should take another look at who we let buy and own guns, vote and/or raise kids in this country.
From the Concord Monitor:
The couple formerly known as Ed and Elaine Brown are not judges and do not have the authority to dismiss their own criminal case, according to Judge Steven McAuliffe, who oversaw their trial and will decide their sentences later this month.
The Browns, of Plainfield, recently ordered the clerk to close their case, citing themselves as "the court" and "judge." They signed their filings using the names they have recently adopted: Edward, a Living Soul in the Body of the Lord, of the House of Israel, and Elaine, a Living Soul in the Body of the Lord, of the House of Israel.
McAuliffe has not yet ruled on the Browns' request for free copies of their trial transcript, but the government has objected to the couple's claims they are indigent, pointing to Ed Brown's statements to the Monitor, among other evidence, to assert that the couple has assets that they did not include in financial affidavits filed with the court.
In Elaine Brown's request for free transcripts, she said that her income was limited to her Social Security checks. An attached financial affidavit said she had only $3,000 cash on hand, according to the government's objection. The Browns wrote, in documents addressed to the "sham court" that they wanted the transcripts "for the purpose of trying to understand the legitimacy/jurisdiction of the fiction's actions."
In another document filed this week, Elaine Brown fired the federal public defender who was acting as her standby counsel.
The Browns have been convicted of conspiring to defraud the federal government, conspiring to disguise large financial transactions and disguising financial transactions to avoid reporting requirements. Elaine Brown, whose Lebanon dental practice generated the couple's income, was also convicted of multiple counts of tax evasion and failing to withhold employment taxes.
The Browns contend that the federal government has no jurisdiction over them and that there is no law compelling ordinary Americans to pay federal income taxes.
The Browns changed their names in late March after converting to a non denominational form of Christianity they learned from a man named Sonny. According to friends of the Browns, Sonny, who wears a long beard, all-white attire and sandals, flew from Hawaii to New Hampshire to visit the Browns and shared his religious and legal teachings over several days. The couple has spoken extensively about their new religious beliefs, and their bearing on the case, in internet radio interviews.
In a phone interview last week, Ed Brown refused to answer detailed questions about his new name or beliefs, but he anticipated that the court would not understand his filings.
"You couldn't possibly understand it," he said. "The court barely knows what it is."
What squirrels. And what's even crazier is that there are actually other people out there who think that they're heroes. Maybe we should take another look at who we let buy and own guns, vote and/or raise kids in this country.
5 years in prison...or the rest of your life in your home. Not much of a choice for two nuts
So we now have another installment in the story of the two whack job fugitives Ed and Elaine Brown of Plainfield, New Hampshire. Convicted of tax evasion and hiding almost two million dollars in income from the IRS, the Browns have holed up in a mansion that they own on 110 acres and sworn that they'll fight to the death before coming out. And a few dozen other America-hating, no-job-having, wanna-be militia heroes have left their trailer homes and come to support the Browns and talk trash about the government, at least until the police actually show up.
The latest from the news
Some may sympathize with the Browns. After all, no one really likes paying taxes, me included. But I suspect that most of us are merely bugged about the amount and the fact that so much is wasted or spent on programs that don't do anything for those of us who actually pay. That's understandable. But the Browns--having done quite well in America and amassed millions of dollars--just decided that they don't want to pay their fair share, period. Did they stop working and go live in the woods, you ask? DId they move out of the country? No. They just began to use elaborate means to conceal their earnings, expenses and property purchases while still living the good life and availing themselves off all of the benefits of living in America--benefits that you and I and most everyone else paid for. They didn't stand up and object to the tax system like any citizen is allowed to do according to our Constitution. They didn't sue for relief in our courts. No, they just lied and cheated until they got caught, and only then did they start that the system is unfair. And that quickly changed to "the system doesn't exist!" Ed Brown now claims that the federal government, the courts, the local sheriff, and anyone else that he doesn't like are all just "fictions" and have no authority over him. He stopped going to his trial even though he knew that the trial was going on without him. His equally crazy wife Elaine stuck her trial out, but upon conviction and with a sentence of 5 years hanging over her, she tearfully begged the judge to release her to her son so that she could tidy up some of her affairs, promising that she wouldn't go back to her husband and their mansion. In my opinion, the judge should have known better than to trust a proven liar, but he let her go and she promptly broke her word and ran straight to their compound, where she now sits, also declaring that the judge is a "fiction" and shaking a gun at anyone that she thinks might be coming to arrest her and her goofy husband.
So far, the US Marshals aren't rushing to storm the compound, a fact which seems to disappoint the Browns and their disciples, most of whom apparently idolize and envy Randy Weaver and the Branch Davidians and wish that they too could die as martyrs. The Browns and their flaky followers have taken great pains to prepare for a siege, stockpiling food, gas for their generator, guns, and other supplies. But now the government isn't giving them the chance to make that last desperate stand that they crave. We're not going to engage in that kind of game with them," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said. But, he added, "law enforcement is not going away and neither are the warrants."
Good move. The knotheads have to come out sooner or later. If nothing else, they're already in prison as they can't leave their mansion. And the day that they do, even if it's ten years down the road, then their real prison terms will begin.
Still, it's my hope that the government at least brings this closer to an end by cutting their power and phones and keeping their loon fan club and relatives from resupplying them. When they run out of gas and canned food and when they can no longer issue statements to the media and their fan base, they'll walk out the door eventually. And when the government seizes every asset that they own to defray the cost of monitoring them and babysitting them in their estate, leaving them to walk out of prison with the clothes on their backs and a pair of bus tickets, I for one won't have a problem with it.
I'm sure that some of their supporters will let them stay with them for a while, assuming that there's room in those trailers that most of them call home.
My take: America is a great country with a great system that let's anyone work to change or challenge the laws. If you don't like something, either try to change it or accept it. But breaking the laws for years then running away after getting caught isn't an option that I'll ever support for anyone. Heck, I'd like to see the Browns' citizenship revoked and I would enjoy the sight of them being deported too. Maybe we can trade them to Mexico for a couple of maids or landscapers who really want to come here, obey our laws and eventually become good citizens.
The latest from the news
Some may sympathize with the Browns. After all, no one really likes paying taxes, me included. But I suspect that most of us are merely bugged about the amount and the fact that so much is wasted or spent on programs that don't do anything for those of us who actually pay. That's understandable. But the Browns--having done quite well in America and amassed millions of dollars--just decided that they don't want to pay their fair share, period. Did they stop working and go live in the woods, you ask? DId they move out of the country? No. They just began to use elaborate means to conceal their earnings, expenses and property purchases while still living the good life and availing themselves off all of the benefits of living in America--benefits that you and I and most everyone else paid for. They didn't stand up and object to the tax system like any citizen is allowed to do according to our Constitution. They didn't sue for relief in our courts. No, they just lied and cheated until they got caught, and only then did they start that the system is unfair. And that quickly changed to "the system doesn't exist!" Ed Brown now claims that the federal government, the courts, the local sheriff, and anyone else that he doesn't like are all just "fictions" and have no authority over him. He stopped going to his trial even though he knew that the trial was going on without him. His equally crazy wife Elaine stuck her trial out, but upon conviction and with a sentence of 5 years hanging over her, she tearfully begged the judge to release her to her son so that she could tidy up some of her affairs, promising that she wouldn't go back to her husband and their mansion. In my opinion, the judge should have known better than to trust a proven liar, but he let her go and she promptly broke her word and ran straight to their compound, where she now sits, also declaring that the judge is a "fiction" and shaking a gun at anyone that she thinks might be coming to arrest her and her goofy husband.
So far, the US Marshals aren't rushing to storm the compound, a fact which seems to disappoint the Browns and their disciples, most of whom apparently idolize and envy Randy Weaver and the Branch Davidians and wish that they too could die as martyrs. The Browns and their flaky followers have taken great pains to prepare for a siege, stockpiling food, gas for their generator, guns, and other supplies. But now the government isn't giving them the chance to make that last desperate stand that they crave. We're not going to engage in that kind of game with them," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said. But, he added, "law enforcement is not going away and neither are the warrants."
Good move. The knotheads have to come out sooner or later. If nothing else, they're already in prison as they can't leave their mansion. And the day that they do, even if it's ten years down the road, then their real prison terms will begin.
Still, it's my hope that the government at least brings this closer to an end by cutting their power and phones and keeping their loon fan club and relatives from resupplying them. When they run out of gas and canned food and when they can no longer issue statements to the media and their fan base, they'll walk out the door eventually. And when the government seizes every asset that they own to defray the cost of monitoring them and babysitting them in their estate, leaving them to walk out of prison with the clothes on their backs and a pair of bus tickets, I for one won't have a problem with it.
I'm sure that some of their supporters will let them stay with them for a while, assuming that there's room in those trailers that most of them call home.
My take: America is a great country with a great system that let's anyone work to change or challenge the laws. If you don't like something, either try to change it or accept it. But breaking the laws for years then running away after getting caught isn't an option that I'll ever support for anyone. Heck, I'd like to see the Browns' citizenship revoked and I would enjoy the sight of them being deported too. Maybe we can trade them to Mexico for a couple of maids or landscapers who really want to come here, obey our laws and eventually become good citizens.
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