{"id":1148,"date":"2009-09-02T13:36:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2009-09-02T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:36:10","slug":"rules_for_thee_but_not_for_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Rules For Thee But Not For Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s New York Post<\/a> posted an opinion piece today suggesting that Charlie Rangel be fired.  Charlie Rangel is head of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.  In the past year, Mr. Rangel has ‘discovered’ large sums of money he neglected to report on the disclosure forms he is required to fill out as a Congressman.  He has made various excuses about forgetting income or having language difficulties, but as yet has not suffered any penalty for his forgetfulness.<\/p>\n

Congressman Rangel is now suggesting that fines and penalties be made stricter on average taxpayers who make filing errors or mistakes on their returns.  According to the article:<\/p>\n

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“The Post’s Charles Hurt reported yesterday that Rangel’s committee seeks to reduce legal defenses and increase fines and penalties on taxpayers undergoing IRS scrutiny for what they assert are innocent errors. <\/em><\/p>\n

Among other things, Rangel’s bill would even prohibit the IRS from forgiving taxpayers who erred in good faith — though that would be a very generous interpretation of his own tax troubles.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is another plank in my platform for term limits.  Admittedly, term limits will not ensure more honest lawmakers, but it will limit the amount of dishonesty they can get away with! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s New York Post posted an opinion piece today suggesting that Charlie Rangel be fired.  Charlie Rangel is head of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.  In the past year, Mr. Rangel has ‘discovered’ large sums of money he neglected … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}