income tax

Another hit from the asshat Fox News Network:

(h/t Cesca)

Douchey is going from the report that said 47% of Americans didn’t pay any income tax last year. Of course they didn’t pay income tax because they didn’t make enough money, but they still paid sales tax, home taxes, state and local taxes, etc.

But I wonder if Doocy and Fox would also argue that the super-rich, who avoid taxes through loopholes and offshore accounts, should also not be given the right to vote. How about big corporations, who didn’t pay taxes last year? Perhaps those companies shouldn’t be allowed to contribute money to political campaigns.

Or perhaps Doocy shouldn’t be allowed to vote, since he has no apparent understanding of democracy. Now I can wait for wingnuts to say I am trying to take away his rights.

President Obama is getting more forceful in his fight for real health care reform, which is a much welcomed site. Yesterday he started invoking FDR and reminding people how the Republicans opposed social security. Then during the Johnson years they opposed Medicare. In both fights the GOP labeled the people pushing for change as “socialists”.

So I was just thinking – why not try something new? Let’s give the opponents an option to opt-out of any government run health care. Fill out and sign a simple form and you don’t have to worry about it. You can also claim this as an exemption on your income tax so you don’t have to pay as much.

Think about how that would look if we had it. When these people stand up at townhalls and start bitching about “socialism”, the congress person holding the meeting can say “hear – sign this form and you won’t have to worry about it”. I wonder how many would? My guess – not many at all.

Republican Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham has pleaded guilty in federal court
to income tax violations.

This  from the

AP:

Rep. Cunningham Pleads Guilty

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty to conspiracy and tax
violations after an investigation of the California Republican's home sale.

Cunningham has been under investigation since his sale of his home to a
defense contractor at an apparently inflated price in 2003 attracted the
attention of federal investigators.

He made his plea known at a hearing in federal court in San Diego on
Monday.

Cunningham, 63, is an eight-term congressman and Vietnam War flying ace.

In November 2003, he sold his Del Mar, Calif., home to defense contractor
Mitchell Wade for $1,675,000. Wade put the house back on the market and sold
it after nearly a year for $975,000 — a loss of $700,000 in one of the
nation's hottest housing markets.

Cunningham and his wife, Nancy, used the proceeds from the sale to buy a
$2.55 million mansion in ritzy Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

Wade also let Cunningham live rent-free on his yacht, the Duke Stir, at
the Capital Yacht Club. His firm, MZM Inc., donated generously to
Cunningham's campaigns.

Around the same time, MZM was winning valuable defense contracts at a
time when Cunningham sat on the House Appropriations subcommittee that
controls defense dollars. In 2004 the little-known company based in
Washington, D.C., tripled its revenue and nearly quadrupled its staff,
according to information posted on the company Web site.