Deadbeat Feds; Federal Employees, Congressional Staffers, and Obama Aides Owe More than $1 Billion in Back Taxes & Federal Workers Get 48% Better Benefits than Private Sectors:
Scurrying somewhere through the halls of congress, the shameful displays of cowardice coming from D.C. politicians after their shameful defeats over their failed Internet Piracy Bill.
A bill favoring small portions of Industry over the majority of folks on the Net, in other words, they were going to make it easier to shut down people’s websites deemed as stealing information.
The Hollywood chief spokesman is none other than that shameful former Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, whose running their powerhouse lobbying operations. Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, got a stinging defeat at the hands of high-tech industries and its followers.
After being head slapped by the entire Internet rising up to take on U.S. congress, Dodd, that very same snake in the grass, who threatened Washington politicians that there would be no Hollywood funding for them, if they didn’t pass the Internet bill, got a rude awakening. Wow! Where did these guys come from?
Well my friends, it’s the power of the Internet. This is the first time in history, where regular folks and Internet heavy weights, won over titans like Hollywood Studios, the Recording Industry Association of America, news publishing industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce vs. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Mozilla and us.
They got their behinds kicked and their teeth racked, just like a group of school kids ganging up, on a school yard thug and bully in the parking lot after school.
Internal Revenue Data showing federal employees are the most tax delinquents and cheats. Yes, according to the study, not only federal employees are behind their taxes, so are congressional aides and other employees. Apparently this delinquency disease is not only a congressional problem; it has even reached the White House.
Oh yeah! The Obama White House, numerous White House employees are delinquent or behind their taxes, and they want to tax us more?
$10.6 Million unpaid 2010 taxes by congressional personnel and 3% of senate staffers are delinquent on their taxes, while 4% house staffers. 98,000 federal employees are delinquent on their taxes and 1 billion dollars owed by federal employees.
But get this! 36 Obama aides owe $833,000 in back taxes “How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.
Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.
Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.
A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama's executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven't paid any share, let alone their fair share.
Previous reports have shown how well-paid Obama's White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. That's up seven workers and nearly $4 million from the Bush administration's last year.
Nearly one-third of Obama's aides make more than $100,000 with 21 being paid the top White House salary of $172,200, each.
The IRS' 2010 delinquent tax revelations come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees' tax compliance. Turns out, an awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not paying their own income taxes.
The report finds that thousands of federal employees owe the country more than $3.4 billion in back taxes. That's up 3% in the past year.
That scale of delinquency could annoy voters, hard-pressed by their own costs, fears and stubbornly high unemployment despite Joe Biden's many promises.
The tax offenders include employees of the U.S. Senate who help write the laws imposed on everyone else. They owe $2.1 million. Workers in the House of Representatives owe $8.5 million, Department of Education employees owe $4.3 million and over at Homeland Security, 4,697 workers owe about $37 million. Active duty military members owe more than $100 million.
The Treasury Department, where Obama nominee Tim Geithner had to pay up $42,000 in his own back taxes before being confirmed as secretary, has 1,181 other employees with delinquent taxes totaling $9.3 million.
As usual, the Postal Service, with more than 600,000 workers, has the most offenders (25,640), who also owe the most -- almost $270 million. Veterans Affairs has 11,659 workers owing the IRS $151 million while the Energy Department that was so quick to dish out more than $500 million to the Solyndra folks has 322 employees owing $5 million.
The country's chief law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, has 2,069 employees who are nearly $17 million behind in taxes. Like Operation Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder has apparently missed them too.
As with ordinary people, the IRS attempts to negotiate back-tax payment plans with all delinquents, whose names cannot be released. But according to current federal law, the only federal employees who can be fired for not paying taxes are IRS workers.”
But of course, this isn’t all to our little petty story. The Congressional Budget Officereleased a report showing that federal worker earn an average 16% more in wages and 48% more in benefits than anyone else in the private sector.
And that reminds me, we never hear of the IRS going after federal employees, it’s the people they are after. Oh yes, and one would think they earn enough to pay their freaking taxes, don’t you?
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