The Rangel Rule... grudgingly, I say "good show, Republican guy."

[Le Jacquelope]

Republicans generally are hypocrites about everything, but you can't deny the righteousness of the Democrats being hoisted by their own patooties on this issue.

Way to go, John Carter. This is probably the only bright moment in your Republican life, but you certainly made the best of it.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/200...intros-rangel-rule-eliminating-irs-late-fees/

GOP Congressman Intros 'Rangel Rule,' Eliminating IRS Late Fees
The Texas Republican introduced a bill Wednesday to eliminate all IRS penalties and interest for paying taxes past due.

Mosheh Oinounou

FOXNews.com

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Americans may be able to rest a little easier this April if Congressman John Carter, R-Texas gets his way.

Rep. Carter introduced a bill Wednesday to eliminate all IRS penalties and interest for paying taxes past due.

The legislation calls for the creation of what he calls the, "Rangel Rule," -- drawing attention to the recent legal issues of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., enabling citizens who fail to pay taxes on time to do so later with no additional fees.

Rangel, who writes the country's tax policies, acknowledged last fall that he failed to pay thousands in real estate taxes for rental income he earned from a property in the Dominican Republic.

As of September 2008 the Harlem Democrat reportedly paid back more than $10,000 in taxes but that did not include any IRS penalties.

"Your citizens back home should have the same rights and benefits that come to you as a member of congress. You shouldn't be treated any differently under the law than your citizens back home," Carter said.

He added that citizens should receive the "same courtesy" that the IRS is allegedly granting Rangel and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who also recently acknowledged a failure to pay taxes.

Carter penned a letter to Rangel earlier this month requesting that he either pay the IRS fees or join him in co-sponsoring the legislation establishing the rule.

"As Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, I believe you set an example for all American taxpayers in your dealings with the IRS, and that you must do so in a way that enforces blind justice without regard to wealth or status," he wrote in the January 6th missive.

A spokesman for the New York Democrat would not comment on the state of the tax issue, which is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, but did respond to the Carter bill.

"This legislation is unnecessary. All taxpayers currently receive equal treatment under the law," Rangel spokesman Emile Milne said.

Carter, a former judge, said he is trying to focus in a what he believes is a double standard and add some levity to the debate.

"I am raising this issue not so much to just push the issue but to open the discussion. I don't think it's wrong for us to start having a free discussion in congress and with a certain amount of humor in it about how should people be treated in congress," he said.

 

[Peregrinator]

Yup. Good move. Too bad the rightwingnuts won't see your thread, as they all have you on ignore. I may do a thread linking yours in the OP, just to draw attention.

 

[jacksonholewy]

How long before someone gets caught not paying their student loans? Its going to be a
scandal eventually.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Yup. Good move. Too bad the rightwingnuts won't see your thread, as they all have you on ignore. I may do a thread linking yours in the OP, just to draw attention.

You know, it's no concern of mine that they have me on ignore. I don't care to ask for their attention like they eventually scream for mine (see my newest "ignore list" thread).

They cannot ignore the facts. When I criticize their idiotic views and they ignore me, it eventually intrudes on their lives anyway, in ways they can't ignore.

Remember when I said housing prices were way too high? Well, can't ignore that. It's why we're in this whole mess.

Remember when Vetteman said the foreclosures and suddenly falling house prices, years later, were no cause for panic? Well look at America now. Full throated panic, coast to coast. Can't ignore that.

Remember when I said in 2004, after John Kerry lost, that the Democrats should take heart and prepare for a victorious comeback in 2005-2006? Well, it happened. Democrats now run Congress and own the White House. The GOP sure as hell aren't ignoring that, hahahah!

Remember when I suggested that Obama was Presidential, back in 2006? Good luck ignoring that - he's our President now. Republicans are going ape shit doody over him.

Remember when I said people who hurl racial slurs should be called racial slurs in return, or in fact should be punched out? Check my sig. You can't ignore a punch to the face, which even right wing poster off2bed knows would happen to you in the real world.

Remember how everything I said above, was laughed at and ridiculed. Now it is a pestilent part of their every day life and the subject of their laments.

You ignore me and disregard what I say at your peril.

Because I am not about me, I am about the message.