Sarah Palin is Screwing the IRS

Posted on 10/04/2008 at 1:47 pm by JumpyPants

Posted by JumpyPants

From the AP via TPM comes yet-another-why-am-I-not-surprised story about Sarah and Todd Palin not paying taxes on her per diems, and doing a lot of other barely legal crap based around Todd’s dual “careers” as a fisherman and a snowmobile racer.

For the 2007 tax year, Todd Palin’s self-employment brought him $66,893 in gross receipts — $49,893 from fishing and $17,000 from snowmachine racing. But, the returns show, he claimed so many deductions that he reported only $15,513 net profit from the fishing operation and claimed a $9,639 loss from his racing, leaving him with an overall net income of only $5,874.

Amazingly, Todd sucks really bad at running a snowmobile racing business! What would Lynn Cheney say?!

Here’s my favorite line from the piece:

“This is a lady who screams about everyone in federal government taking advantage, and she’s taking every advantage she can,” said Sheldon Cohen, IRS commissioner in the Johnson administration.

I feel like it’s pathetic that I’m even writing this. Honestly, the nominee for the #2 spot in our federal government (from the party in the WH no less) is screwing same federal government on her income tax, and her husband looks like he’s running a scam involving a snowmobile racing business. Imagine pitching this idea to Aaron Sorkin as a plotline on The West Wing. How fast would you get fired from that writing staff?

Is this not just staggering to the entire world? This woman wants to be President, and there is an actual chance that she could be!!!!

If this is not reason to donate or volunteer, I don’t know what is.

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  • beautykilledbeast

    But Bob, what if I’m maxed out on donations to Obama-Biden?

  • bibimimi

    She disputed the patriotism of paying one’s taxes during the debate.Gawd Ble$$ Amerikuh!

  • Nanotyrannus

    She’s apparently now telling everyone that Obama pals around with terrorists …http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20081004/palin-obama/This from the moron whose own husband is part of a secessionist movement.

  • JG

    This is an amazing analysis on how pathetic the BBQ media is handling, not only the last two debates, but also their bending over backwards create false balance with eight wing echo chamber zombie narratives–http://demfromct.dailykos.com/If Palin had the numbers Biden is getting in post debate polls,it would be a “game changer” as they like to put it–but since they so heavily favor Biden, the debate was a “push” and didn’t really move the race. Unbelievable–how the “liberal media” label still exists is beyond me–The thirty year campaign of the liberal media charge has worked–

  • jane

    Even the Palins would benefit from Obama’s tax plan. Voting against your best interests, I’ve heard of, but running against your own best interests?

  • Strawdog

    Todd would make an excellent first dude. His snowmachining expenses exceeded income by 57 percent. The current first dude, W, has a budget of $2.9 trillion and will probably blow the budget by a similar amount.

  • cactusgal

    Palin’s screwing the IRS? I thought it was her husband’s business partner? That goddamn National Enquirer never gets the facts right.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    All that info and they didn’t get audited?!?! I would be arrested if I handed in a tax return like that.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    What?! Republicans on the make?! I never heard of such a thing…

  • http://www.aftercancernowwhat.wordpress.com&title=The+Article+Title aftercancer

    You know I thought that Todd’s “business” with the snowmobiling looked like a very expensive hobby and nothing else when I looked at it. What a freakin’ surprise.