SEND THIS &%$#@ TO PRISON NOW!
From the New York Post
Washington - Even as he fends off accusations about his own failure to pay taxes and fully disclose his financial dealings, Rep. Charles Rangel had quietly slipped into the health-care bill broad new provisions cracking down on taxpayers in proceedings with the IRS, The Post has learned.
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's bill would:
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's bill would:
* Punish those who fail to alert the IRS to potentially questionable tax exemptions.
* Bar the IRS from waiving penalties against taxpayers who clearly erred in good faith.
* Double fines in certain circumstances.
* Bar the IRS from waiving penalties against taxpayers who clearly erred in good faith.
* Double fines in certain circumstances.
"The bill raises penalties and eliminates many of the reasonable defenses that taxpayers have always been able to use when honest mistakes are uncovered," one lawyer told The Post. In fact, the bill increases fines "in some cases even for honest mistakes," the expert added.
That this crooked bastard is not in prison best illustrates why we may very well lose this great nation.
We should pass the hat:
"Won't you please donate a few dollars to help send a fat, racebaiting, overgrown child to prison?"
You realize Obama has never let a Democrat be prosecuted, though.
It'll be "killed in Washington" like all investigations of Democrats under Obama's misadministration.
Posted by: democratsarefascists | 09/01/2009 at 03:22 PM
Take heart. They are on the run.
Click on that ad in my right sidebar - 'Oathkeepers'.
Read.
Posted by: Steel | 09/01/2009 at 07:54 PM
As long as the Democrats are the majority party, little, if anything, is going to happen to slimeballs like Rangel.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama | 09/02/2009 at 07:42 PM