tycho1572
Gold Member
- Sep 2, 2016
- 13,050
- 3,089
- 290
Oh.. did the article about Bernie being a lying hypocrite upset you?The article is about Bernie being a lying hypocrite.He sure did. Here’s an article about it.....Why would a supposed Dem lie about Sanders?.
No? What's this then?
You'll have to talk to the Republicans about supporting a candy who won't release his taxes.
That's messed up. He DID provide his tax returns
Sadly, socialist hero Bernie Sanders turns out to be just another garden-variety, hypocritical, tax-evading liberal/progressive. He has perfected the art of the very tax avoidance he claims is immoral. Having spent much of his adult life on unemployment, and occasionally “working” by writing “rape fantasy” for leftist birdcage liners for $50 a pop, plus and brief but failed stint as a carpenter, Sanders avoided paying income taxes for decades by not holding a steady job until he was forty. And when he finally did get a job, it was a government job, elected as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. He then went on to get elected as the only openly socialist member of Congress, where he has been ever since.
Yet even as he rages against the capitalist machine, he indulges in the very acts he condemns. Last week Sanders released his 2014 income tax return, and it was quite revealing. It shows Sanders and his wife, with a combined income of $205,271, paid just $27,653 in federal income taxes after taking more than $60,000 in deductions for things like home mortgage interest, real estate taxes, state and local taxes, and job-related expenses. This gave him an effective tax rate of just 13.5%, lower than the 15.2% he would have paid had he not taken the deductions, and far lower than the 27.4% rate paid by the “millionaires and billionaires” in this country (according to the IRS, the exorbitant tax rate for “millionaires and billionaires” kicks in for people making as little as $200,000/year).
Read more here:
Bernie Sanders Just Another Tax-Evading Liberal Hypocrite | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government
I don't follow.
WHY would anybody pay more taxes than they owe?
Apparently not, since you can't answer the question.
Besides which, half your article is just butthurt whining about Sanders being a writer or filmmaker before he ran for office. EVERYBODY did some other job before they ran for office with the obvious exception of Rump.