Limbaugh: Joe Stack "sounds just like any liberal Democrat," writings "almost word for word" like Obama, Pelosi, Reid
February 19, 2010 1:57 pm ET
From the February 19 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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I don't know if he was left or right wing (as there are plenty of conservatives who hate Bush), but to say unequivocally that he was a "right-wing radical" is a hasty inference and y'all know it.
Like they do now.
While "don't feed the trolls" sounds good in theory, you are depending on trolls being normal, rational human beings . . . most of them, as is evidenced here, are not.
They like the attention- it doesn't matter if it's negative attention. My guess is that they even get off on how many "thumbs down" they accumulate.
Really? Was he just confused then? Cause he seemed to have donated $500 in the hopes of getting that other psycho Ron Paul elected. Yep. Flogging-himself-to-unfettered-capitalism Ron Paul.
He CHOSE to try to evade lawfully-owed taxes by taking part in a scheme back in the 1980's where he and many others pretended that they were in-home churches to get the tax breaks that religious institutions get. Now, if one wants to argue that churches shouldn't get off tax-free, that's fine, but no individual should pretend that they're a church to get off from lawfully-owed taxes. That's the first scam he tried to run WRT taxes owed.
He failed to pay business taxes multiple times out in California, resulting in him losing his business charter twice. He's a "victim" of his own actions, not a true victim. His first wife filed for bankruptcy claiming over $100,000 in back taxes owed - they weren't paying legit taxes owed during the timeframe they were due!
He later failed to file an income tax return during a year where he didn't have any "income". But he did have money from an IRA that he withdrew. He was willing to take advantage of the tax benefits of utilizing an IRA, but when he took that money out, he should have been willing to pay the penalties for that early withdrawl. But he claims that he was a victim again - that he didn't KNOW that he'd owe a penalty for taking that money out. Liar. He thought he could get away with it, just like he thought he could get away with declaring his home a 'church' back in the 1980's.
Then he did it again - he failed to report his wife's "unreported" income on a tax return, and got caught, and who does he want to blame? His accountant. Well, Stack KNEW that he was filing an inaccurate return when he signed it. He's no one's victim.
He didn't hate the IRS because they had tax loopholes for the "rich". He hated them because none of his tax dodging attempts were successful.
He got caught, and much like convicted criminals who whine and pout about the sentences they receive, he whined. But he got caught by his own dishonest actions.
Notice how only people who use Welfare, Food Stamps, or other assistance are "entitled" and "spoiled" and "cheaters?" Never people who want to avoid paying taxes- I think it's because the right wing actually respects these losers, who want to continue to drive on roads and use other services on someone else's dime.
That was quite the rage in the late 80s and through much of the 90s. I actually recall some of those outfits used to advertise on Rush.
This poster explains it all (From watchdogblog.dallas news) - dude was just a tax dodger:
Posted by Honest Taxpayer @ 11:49 AM Fri, Feb 19, 2010
The misinformation about the tax law underlying the complaints of this nut-job must stop. The truth is not that difficult to untangle, and I am disappointed that the NY Times is having such a hard time getting there.
Here goes:
If you are legally considered an independent contractor, the current tax provisions provide certain tax advantages over being classified as an employee--the legal status most of us who collect a paycheck clearly fall under.
For years, technical professionals like Mr. Stack abused the tax system by improperly classifying themselves as independent contractors and got away with it because Congress would not allow the IRS to enforce the law.
In 1986--in a well received exchange of fewer tax scams for lower overall tax rates--Congress put a stop to the moratorium that prevented the IRS from pursuing tax cheats like Mr. Stark. The end result was that as of 1986 he was subject to the same rules as the rest of us.
If in fact he worked as an independent contractor in the future, he could continue to enjoy the benefits of that status. If not, he was no longer entitled to any of the tax benefits that those us who are merely employees can’t claim.
So at the end of the day, what is it this wacko is complaining about?
His tax rate went from 50% to 28% under the 1986 Act. The trade-off for this significantly lower rate was that he could no longer play the tax games that he was probably playing when he classified himself as an independent contractor, a classification that he probably should have never been allowed to claim in the first place.
Is it really any wonder that his purported complaints to his duly elected representatives fell on deaf ears?
All one needs to do to see a group of people diving off into the proverbial deep end into the Marianas Trench is to tune in to the CPAC conference.
As for the Alabama professor, she is, just as the man in Austin, mentally ill. She didn't get tenure and she went postal. Also, she killed her brother over 20 years ago.
Mental illness doesn't have a political ideology, big bird.
No, Seahags -- the people really going off the deep end are those suggesting that Obama, Pelosi, or Reed have ever suggested flying an airplane into a building . . .
This guy owned several companies himself and was complaining about paying taxes in general. No "Liberal Democrat" will argue against paying taxes in general, that's what Republicans always do.
So, on the one hand we have someone who likes a really popular President. In your mind she is equivalent to someone who had a 30 year history of trying to defraud the IRS and who flew a plane into an office building to try to get back at office workers who only enforce tax laws that this guy violated?
It's YOU who the truth hurts.
Wow, this is the second post where you've outed yourself as a closet "lib." Who knew?
I'm bettin' Rush was really disappointed that Stack was also a certified honky.
Otherwise, some might get the crazy idea that flying a plane into a building housing U.S. Government offices might be an act of terrorism.
Can't have it both ways, Rush. Suck it up and admit that your hatemongering for profit is creating violence against your own countrymen.
He risks his audience being insulted at the comparison, knowing that Rush is wrong.
I don’t know but from what evidence if have read there is no link between the Alabama professor and her recorded devotion to Obama as the cause of her transgressions. Her actions where stimulated over her failure to get tenure at the university she worked for.
When I read the gentleman’s manifesto in Austin, I saw a person with many internal conflicting mindsets, and several mixtures of ideology. He was clearly not a representative from ether of our countries current popular schools of thought rather a conglomerate of mixed rationalities and a sad example of the issues American’s struggle with in our economic times. Let’s be grateful that more people weren’t hurt and quit pointing fingers at people we agree with.
-Joe Stack
Now these guys are going after Toyota. Thug politics. The General Motors-Chrysler owners are going - the government - is going after Toyota.
-Rush Limbaugh
We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals [sic] represented by its founding fathers.
-Joe Stack
we fear the loss of our liberty, the loss of our freedom. We fear a government tyranny. We fear any form of a dictatorship. We fear the notion that government has all the answers and will do everything necessary to solve every problem for individuals. It scares us.
-Rush Limbaugh
In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
-Joe Stack
Think of Washington as a giant funeral home, and we are the living. And the undertakers are not changing their jobs. Their jobs are to prepare bodies for burial.
-Rush Limbaugh
Modesty, of course, forbids him saying just WHOSE . . .
While Stack's suicide note went in numerous directions, there was a lot within that sounded like it could have been lifted from a tea party convention...
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