If it's good enough for Charlie, then it's good enough for us
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Texas Republican Congressman and former judge, John Carter, has introduced legislation that gives ordinary Americans the same special privileges accorded to Democrat Charlie Rangel and our newly minted Democrat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
As long as you pay your back taxes, all fees and penalties will be waived.
All U.S. taxpayers would enjoy the same immunity from IRS penalties and interest as House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, if a bill introduced today by Congressman John Carter (R-TX) becomes law.
Carter, a former longtime Texas judge, today introduced the Rangel Rule Act of 2009, HR 735, which would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from charging penalties and interest on back taxes against U.S. citizens. Under the proposed law, any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest.
“We must show the American people that Congress is following the same law, and the same legal process as we expect them to follow,” says Carter. “That has not been done in the ongoing case against Chairman Rangel, nor in the instance of our new Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. If we don’t hold our highest elected officials to the same standards as regular working folks, we owe it to our constituents to change those standards so everyone is abiding by the same law. Americans believe in blind justice, which shows no favoritism to the wealthy or powerful.”
Carter also said the tax law change will provide good economic stimulus benefits, as it would free many taxpayers from massive debts to the IRS, restoring those funds to the free market to help create jobs.
Democrats' hypocrisy has come back to bite them. Can Rangel oppose the bill? Can Geithner? When you cheat, you lose the moral high ground. There is nothing more antithetical to a Republic than to have one rule for politicians and a harsher one for the people.
And yet, unless this bill passes, that is exactly what we have.
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Comments
LOL. Wait I can't stop laughing to comment. Ok. I caught my breath. Sounds like a good plan for the economy.
Good article. Let us hear about some of the lobbyists that he has appointed after slamming McCain's campaign for being involved with lobbyists..hmm interesting.
I would like to propose that a bill be submitted that would require that all elected officials and nominated officials have an IRS audit done each year to show the American people that as Vice-president Joe Biden said, that’s its patriotic for all Americans to pay their fair share. Also since we have an admitted tax cheat over the IRS, and one in charge of creating the rules and regulations for the tax code, that congress not be exempt from the penalties and interest the rest of America must pay. A yearly GAO audit must be done to prove no favoritism has occurred.
I was harrassed by the IRS in a tax audit and I was even threatened even with jail time, yet I did not even owe back taxes. I just had the IRS deny deductions that many of the elite politcal circle enjoy be denied. Well I am sure glad we have change in Washington? I hope this bill passes!
What a sleaze. With $5million laying around that he "forgot about" he keeps a rent controlled apartment for 30+ years depriving a Democrat in need.
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