Hockey Mom owes back taxes!

[Revmitchell]

Fair enough - I will happily retract my comments if this is the case.

However, if she we not the darling of the right would we see this kind of sympathy?

Personally I never supported her or McCain. Neither would I vote for either one of them in the future. But the Dems have had tax cheat after tax cheat and it has put a big black mark on the Obama admin and now the left is going after their favorite one to beat up. And there is nothing there to even complain about. There has been no wrong doing.

 

[targus]

This isn't even an error on Palin's part - let alone tax avoidance.

"The state this week reversed a policy that had treated the payments as legitimate business expenses under the Internal Revenue Code, said state administrator Annette Kreitzer. Payments to employees charging "per diem" expenses to stay in their own homes will be treated as income subject to taxes, Kreitzer said, and the state will update the employees' W-2 forms."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/18/ST2009021803325.html

The state of Alaska changed their policy. This is a non-issue.

I question the fairness of making the policy change retroactive.

 

[matt wade]

The state of Alaska changed their policy. This is a non-issue.

I agree. I'm not a fan of Palin, but it isn't her fault if the policy is changed after she files her taxes (in fact the policy was revisted because of what she filed!).

Anyway, the bigger issue here is charging the state of Alaska per diem for staying in your own house. I may be to the letter of the law (and now that letter says you have to pay taxes on it), but it certainly isn't in the spirit. If you are running as a conservative, you should be nickel and diming on your per diem charges.

 

[Pastor Larry]

It's hard to imagine that anyone thinks this is the same thing as Geithner and Daschle. There could not be more dissimilarity.

But it goes to show that some people don't care about the facts. LB tried this yesterday and when it was shown how wrong he was, he had the decency to admit it.

Will MP do the same thing? I won't hold my breath given that MP has not shown himself to be decent previously when caught in situations like this. Hopefully he will disappoint me.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

This story is baloney, and I retract my statements. I've been gone for almost a week, but I wanted to get back to this.

Are you going to retract it, MP ?

 

[Magnetic Poles]

This story is baloney, and I retract my statements. I've been gone for almost a week, but I wanted to get back to this.

Are you going to retract it, MP ?

Retract what? It is a CNN story, not mine. I merely provided the link to it. Here is a new one about all this from the Washington Post. Want me to retract that one too? Maybe Mitch should retact the links to all the baloney global warming denial blogs.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Oh please.

"You betcha" isn't merely providing a link.

 

[donnA]

Not president, not running for president, not nominated for president or anything else, big deal, obama keeps buddying up with tax cheats, nominating them, got one passed through. again, big deal when the president is approving of tax fraud.

 

[Revmitchell]

Maybe Mitch should retact the links to all the baloney global warming denial blogs.

What does one have to do with the other?

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Not president, not running for president, not nominated for president or anything else, big deal, obama keeps buddying up with tax cheats, nominating them, got one passed through. again, big deal when the president is approving of tax fraud.

I am not interested in that argument. Just because one higher up is doing it doesn't make it right.

She is not a tax cheat, and MP should acknowledge it.

 

[Magnetic Poles]

I am not interested in that argument. Just because one higher up is doing it doesn't make it right.

She is not a tax cheat, and MP should acknowledge it.

I have no idea if she is a tax cheat. You betcha was affirming that she owes taxes on questionable per diem exemptions she took. She also took the kids on state business trips at taxpayer expense. Do you take family along for a vacation and bill the employer? Most places, it ain't kosher. You read a lot into a two word quote from the esteemed governor herself. LOL

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Your opinion of her is well known.

And the wife & I just got back from a lovely 5 day trip to the Wintergrass Festival in Tacoma. All expenses paid, by an employer, thank you very much.

But that has nothing to do with it, just like her trip has nothing to do with your O/P.

You hate her, so it's OK to throw innuendo around. But if someone were to do it to you, you'd go into hyper-hissy-fit mode.

LOL.

 

[Magnetic Poles]

Your opinion of her is well known.

And the wife & I just got back from a lovely 5 day trip to the Wintergrass Festival in Tacoma. All expenses paid, by an employer, thank you very much.

But that has nothing to do with it, just like her trip has nothing to do with your O/P.

You hate her, so it's OK to throw innuendo around. But if someone were to do it to you, you'd go into hyper-hissy-fit mode.

LOL.

Curtis, you need another vacation. There is no inuendo in the two words, "you betcha".

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Baloney.

Don't worry, the shoe will be on the other foot soon enough.

:wavey:

 

[donnA]

I am not interested in that argument. Just because one higher up is doing it doesn't make it right.

She is not a tax cheat, and MP should acknowledge it.

I never said she was. But I find it strange that people who approved of obama's buddies tax fraud, are now posting against it on this thread, pretty hypocritical.

 

[Magnetic Poles]

I never said she was. But I find it strange that people who approved of obama's buddies tax fraud, are now posting against it on this thread, pretty hypocritical.

Who did that?

 

[dcorbett]

Yep. If she were a Dem, it would disqualify her from serving on the cabinet. But she's the darling of the wacky right, so it's okay. Got it?

No, if she were a Democrat, she would REALLY owe a huge amount of back taxes and be busy trying to cover it up.

But she just found out that she owes taxes on disallowed deductions. That is NOT back taxes, for those of you that don't understand the tax system.

 

[Revmitchell]

No, if she were a Democrat, she would REALLY owe a huge amount of back taxes and be busy trying to cover it up.

But she just found out that she owes taxes on disallowed deductions. That is NOT back taxes, for those of you that don't understand the tax system.

Yea the title is misleading

 

[LadyEagle]

Perhaps the title of the thread should be in "quotes" as was suggested to me on the Forget Something, Mr. President thread.

 

[EdSutton]

I agree. I'm not a fan of Palin, but it isn't her fault if the policy is changed after she files her taxes (in fact the policy was revisted because of what she filed!).

Anyway, the bigger issue here is charging the state of Alaska per diem for staying in your own house. I may be to the letter of the law (and now that letter says you have to pay taxes on it), but it certainly isn't in the spirit. If you are running as a conservative, you should be nickel and diming on your per diem charges.

I'm not a particularly great fan of some politicians, either, but resent one implication in this post, namely the "nickel and diming" bit, while assuming that it may meet the "letter of the law" meaning the wording of the statute or regulations. I happen to be a farmer, and I do our own taxes. For many years, before I was married, I also did the taxes of my several family members, at no charge to any of them. Most of them have now since passed from this life, including my own brother.

(FTR, my wife's brother is an accountant, so we certainly do not have to go this route, but I still choose to.) I seek every possible exemption and deduction, I can find. I do not believe there is any moral or ethical obligation to meet some implied yet undefined and unspoken "spirit of the law" that allegedly lies behind the law. I choose not to give "one red cent" more (or less) than is required by law, to Washington or Frankfort, save rounding to the nearest dollar amount. I do not believe anyone is a "tax cheat" for taking advantage of every possible exemption and deduction, which is the implied premise that lies behind this whole thread.

FTR, as it is, we have chosen to allow the Governments to use our money for a year, at no interest, due to not claiming more exemptions on the W-2, which we are certainly allowed to do, fully legally. Hence, I believe in this, I/we have far gone beyond what the law requires. Our total refunds have always been fairly substantial, FWIW.

In fact, there are multiple different ways I can compute the taxes that are due for the state returns, unlike the federal return, where there is only one. The actual difference will usually never exceed a couple of bucks, and more often than not, does not result in any difference, yet I take about 2-3 hours, on average, just to run all of the alternatives to the tax table, and file the one with the least tax owed, resulting in the largest refund. I assure you I can find better and more profitable uses for three hours than to 'save a dollar in taxes', but I do this on principle.

Ed