Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid)
 

Obama paid late parking tickets

Taxes also unpaid! Journalists tucked this fact at the bottom of the article!


I'll let you read the article, here are some things to consider:

He was not some teenage undergraduate when he was running up this debt to local governments. Born in 1961, received tickets from 1988 to 1991.

He was 27 when this started, he was 30 by the time the last one was issued.

He was going to Law school. A law student who shows no respect for the law, and shows no concern for the local governments from which he was not paying his debts. Where was his respect for the taxpayers who had to pick up the bill instead?

While the title of the article mentions parking tickets, Obama also failed to pay Excise taxes to the city he lived in. So for years, and while he was a US Senator, he was in arrears for taxes to a local government. A tax scofflaw running for President! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]



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Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid
 

Thank god he paid them, something this scandalous can truly torpedo a campaign!

Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid)
 

Damn, I might actually vote for him now. Then again, he caved to public pressure before it even happened and paid, so... no.

Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid
 

From the article:
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and $45 in late penalties for parking in a bus stop in 1990 and in a street-sweeping zone in 1991

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Did the 29 year old Obama care about the low income people who have to travel by city bus? I wonder.

Is compassion for the less well off supposed to be one of his strong points?

Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid
 

So this is astroturfing in action? This is complete nonsense.

Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid
 

I just found this humourous commentary from a Boston newspaper.

This story may have legs:

Hillary circling as Obama searches for parking space

http://news.bostonherald.com/images/...on03082007.jpg


How low is this Hillary/Obama grudge match gonna get? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid
 

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So this is astroturfing in action? This is complete nonsense.

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Yup. And if you do a search on Google tomorrow, you'll inevitably find similar posts in other forums -- probably by the same guy behind the BGC account.

Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid
 

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Damn, I might actually vote for him now. Then again, he caved to public pressure before it even happened and paid, so... no.

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This story might as well had been leaked by Obama himself. What's more "every man" than having unpaid parking tickets?

Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid
 

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Obama paid late parking tickets

Taxes also unpaid! Journalists tucked this fact at the bottom of the article!


I'll let you read the article, here are some things to consider:

He was not some teenage undergraduate when he was running up this debt to local governments. Born in 1961, received tickets from 1988 to 1991.

He was 27 when this started, he was 30 by the time the last one was issued.

He was going to Law school. A law student who shows no respect for the law, and shows no concern for the local governments from which he was not paying his debts. Where was his respect for the taxpayers who had to pick up the bill instead?

While the title of the article mentions parking tickets, Obama also failed to pay Excise taxes to the city he lived in. So for years, and while he was a US Senator, he was in arrears for taxes to a local government. A tax scofflaw running for President! [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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BGC, if this is the best you have, we are golden in 2008 - [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] - (provided they don't nominate Hillary)

so the point of the story is, all taxes and parking tkt's have been paid - what a shining example of a good public servant, taking care of things before running for office [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

according to the article above, he's all even on his accounts, right? - doesn't sound like a tax scafflaw to me - probably paid late penalities too, I suspect - it was probably brought to his attention and dealt with before the election when he barely would have been aware of it - Must be nice to have a staff that doesn't have to commit perjury to do it's job on a daily basis [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

now, on to Congressional Investigations of REAL lawbreakers

rb

Re: Obama stiffs the govt (for years, taxes and parking tickets unpaid
 

No kidding. How friggin weak.

It's not like he partied instead of going to vietnam or anything.