Obama Calls out Contractor “Tax Cheats”

I wonder why he is not calling out Charlie Rangle for tax cheating ways while trying to enforce tax laws and racking in a nice pay check courtsey of the tax payers.
Better yet, for “trying” to incorporate a penalty in the form of taxes if one does not carry health insurance.
Oh the double standards of this Congress and Administrations is truly OUTFRIGGINSTANDING!!!

That’s priceless coming from
Mr. Acorn himself.

This isn’t a big deal. An obvious and excellent change in policy, but like banning texting by government employees while driving doing something this obvious is just a standard, non-partisan part of the President’s job.
Although I’m sure the Right wing nutters will find some reason to freak out about it.

Hypocrit.

So what does he call the people he
nominated and Rangel who seems to
be immune from the same tax code everyone has to live up too ? What
a damn hypocrite this guy is. Does
he not think before he opens his
mouth or does he just read the
script?? Stupid.

Calling out “deadbeat companies” that are being awarded government contracts while delinquent in their taxes, President Obama today signed a presidential memorandum to stop these companies from collecting government contracts while they are “gaming the system.”
HOW ABOUT DEADBEAT PEOPLE THAT BECOME CABINET APPOINTEES WHILE DELINQUENT IN THEIR TAXES?

C’mon jhw539, even you must see the utter hypocrisy in this pronouncement.
Big business tax cheat = bad.
Cabinet member tax cheat = honest mistake.
Woody | Jan 20, 2010 12:40:00 PM
That analogy is absurd. ANY big business that pays up what it owes in full is back in business with the governement. EXACTLY LIKE every Obama cabinet member has paid up in full what they owe (even the few who had issues). There is NO hypocrisy, the hypocrisy would be if big business was not required to pay up and get fully legal like all of Obama’s Cabinet members were.
Is critical thinking on the Right so poor you honestly don’t see this fundamental error in your analogy?

No shout-outs for Rangel and Tim Geithner?
Someone please tell Obama that his supporters are the only ones buying his BS.
And they will never know the truth because they listen to the Obama Media networks.
Uninformed–just the way Obama likes his supporters.

Obama please resign and get psychological help.

This is just more posturing from Obama.
He feigns anger, says a bunch of crap, then makes sure that any law that is written has loop holes galore in it, so his buddies can worm their way through them.
Obama no longer has credibility with most Americans, he lost that when he faked anger about the AIG bonuses.
Obama needs to man up, grow a pair and do what he promised and if he can’t, then we have no problem firing him when his term is up.
ABC, where is the story of the Copenhagen Junket?

JHW, then maybe you can explain away Charlie Rangle and his extensive amount of back taxes that he has not only refused to pay,
UnPoliticallyCorrect | Jan 20, 2010 1:04:46 PM
? When did Rangle become a cabinet member – what the initial poster was explicitly referring to? Or is your post a sarcastic extension of my critical thinking jibe by pretending to be a Republican with humorously poor English comprehension skills?
As for Rangle, I would guess that he’s going to pay up his back taxes – just like Obama is now requiring these businesses to do. Not very hard, and certainly not hypocritical of the administration (who has clearly taken a much harder line with its members than Congress if Rangle still has unpaid back taxes).
This is a good, common sense policy Obama is putting in place. I have no doubt McCain would have done the same thing. I really don’t see partisan points to be scored pro or con on basic stuff like this (other than perhaps chuckling at how far off in a fantasy land the rabid Obama haters are).

Unions are exempt from the health tax, right?
jamescbuilder | Jan 20, 2010 1:15:20 PM
Nope. They just got a bit longer phase in period. They have a contract cycle or two to get ready, but they’re still targeted to carry the brunt of the health insurance reform tax.

“drain the swamp”
Posted by: hank
you do know that it was the republicans who got the biggest ‘earmarks’ recently

Um, when is Obama going to go after the bureaucrats and politicans who don’t pay THEIR damn taxes!!! I don’t think I will hold my breath on that one! (Mere citizens get imprisioned for accounting errors, and have their property auctioned for much less)
Between them and the corporations that don’t pay taxes, his agenda may in fact pay for itself.
But since they aren’t paying for it, WHY NOT throw more debt and cash on the fire. After all it isn’t their money. It’s taxpayers money! And if they run out they can print more of it. Woo-hoo!

frankly, if more people/companies would not pay their taxes on time (or maybe at all) it might wake-up Washington that their spending, crony contracts, foreign wars&meddling, big brother laws, lobbyist ties, and federal aggrandisement of power is too much. We can thank these companies who, for their own benefit, are trying to cut off funds to this out of control Federal bureacracy and government. Obama seems to be just as bad as Bush, we need real “change” back to a Constitutional form of limited government. We can only get there when the Feds don’t have the unlimited funds to spread around in their schemes.

Lip service from a lame duck president.

Companies shouldn’t have to pay their taxes? The Republicans stand up for freedom.

Can we expect to see Obama, Reid, and Pelosi driving pickup trucks next week?

Lets get this straight he is coming down on tax cheats yet he appoints a tax cheat to mind our money. He is a joke why isnt he going after Rangel for his fraud and the billions of dollars owed by federal employees. He still doesnt get it he goes after a specific group instead of everyone. the bottom linre is he is a liar and you cant trust a liar!

One thing to realize is no company actually pays taxes, they all collect taxes from individuals and then pass them on to the government. Government raises taxes on a business they raise the price of their goods and services and then its the individuals who pay more for the goods and services. Only people pay taxes, your the people, so demanding business’s pay more taxes or even pay taxes at all is basically asking them to raise the cost of things you buy.
I do definately agree, Obama needs to clean up his own czars and those in the congress and senate that cheat on taxes before going after anyone else.

I’ve been working full-time for IBM for over 20 straight years, but never as a regular employee. And while, I’m lucky to still be working in this economy, it is very obvious they are taking advantage of the system. So, while my income shrinks every year with hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime, I’ve seen thousands of my co-workers replaced by over-seas employees that make $400 dollars a month. How can there be job security when even the biggest corporations are looking for short-term results? And, yes, I pay every penny of my taxes.