Wonkette
Oh dang there goes yet another candidate for President Obama’s cabinet, felled by a cloud of money-scandal! Sarah Palin would have made a wonderful Commerce Secretary — after all, she’s a Republican, and knows all about international trade after her clothes-buying tour of the People’s Republic of Manhattan. However, her prospects have been dashed on account of her owing TAXES TAXES TAXES on the per diem meal-and-incidental stipend she charged the state of Alaska while living in her Wasilla trash palace instead of the governor’s mansion in Juneau.
How is it that a person is able to collect a stipend for normally travel-related incidentals while staying at home? Through Alaskan magic.
Her spokeswoman says that “the amount of taxes owed is a private matter,” which sounds awfully like a tacit admission of RANK CRIMINALITY AND EXCESSIVE TOMFOOLERY.
As of mid-September 2008, Sarah Palin had collected nearly $17,000 from the state in exchange for sleeping in her house. She is the worst and most corrupt despot since Genghis Khan.
Palin to pay tax on past per diem[Anchorage Daily News]
Taxes are for little people.
She becomes less bangable with every passing day.
That “private matter” phrase has sure come in handy for her team. I seem to recall it being applied to a brother-in-law situation, a pregnant daughter…
It’ll be good newz for Alaska finanzes then. She’s doing her part to deal with Alaska’s $1.5 Billion budget shortfall.
“Selling the occasional grandchild to defray the amount of taxes owed is a private matter,”
There.
I don’t think Genghis Khan was especially corrupt.
hockeymom: Actually, it appears from the article that taxes are for non-Alaskans. Also.
Private matters in taxes…good. Private matters in abortion matters…bad. Got it.
groove: Avaunt, with thy communist devil-logic, intended to confound and upset. Thou dost infect mine eyes!
Pfft. I would have charged at least ten times that for sleeping in her house. Plus PTSD counseling bennies.
“For Politico to say it’s the same as Daschle — that’s bunk,”
Of course. Daschle is a Democrat.
Apparently Bristol is the brains of the family, who knew?
That’s depressing; it’s warmer in Alaska than in Minneapolis.
Whatever she screams at her retarded baby to get it to sleep is a private matter.
Fantasizing about servicing Barry the Muslin’s hog is a private matter.
Not paying taxes on your sleep at home scam, that’s public.
Money owed to public coffers is a private matter?
I call cultural bias here. In the Peeps Repub of Alaska, you know, it’s like the Government is supposed to pay the citizens money, not citizens pay the Government. That would be socialism. Stop being so all “gotcha” and everything.
From the Snow Queen’s interview with Gretta van Scientologist concerning her grandchild:
“I think if the family doesn’t all really kinda circle the wagons and help one another at a time like this…this is what family is for also to pitch in and proud of Bristol for accepting the help too that’s been offered her by her grandma, her great grandma, her great great grandma, and aunts and cousins, and we’re very thankful to be in the situation we are with so much help. I don’t know how other families do it. They kind of assume that the young parent is going to make it on their own, [catches herself] or assume that government will take care of the parent and that child. That’s not government’s role, but this is a role of families to pitch in and help.”
Tax problem in what respect, Charlie?
chascates: Also.
Try diagramming that first sentence.
“She is the worst and most corrupt despot since Genghis Khan”
…and she can almost see his native homeland of Mongolia from her house.
rocktonsammy: You’re surprised?
Did she try to claim “Intellectual Bankruptcy”?
hockeymom: As well should be the case. The poors, our nation’s parasites.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/ny_times_top_20__pay_80__of_taxes_.guest.html
Every time we get a new story about Palin, I get embarrassed about all the mean things I said about Campbell Brown . . . and . . . God kills a kitten.
Jeez, how much tax can a trailer run up?
Genghis Khan was never late on his taxes. He had people.
Ya see, it’s a private matter because the republicans are against paying taxes anyway. And government. Also, there are other things we should be looking at. Look over there. What taxes? Also.
S.Luggo: OH GOD DAMN!
Limbaugh says that:
The overwhelming majority of federal income taxes are paid by the very highest income earners.
But that is because they make such an incredible amount of money, often via capital gains which are capped at a 15% tax rate. If someone makes $263 million a year (the average of the richest 400 in this country) then you would expect they pay a lot of taxes.
You take that back! Ghengis’s hordes only took what were the spoils of war and he was a leader with security and foreign policy experience.
rocktonsammy: I actually respect Bristol a lot more now that she’s admitted abstinence is a joke. Mom must have LOVED that!
chascates: I love how Rush still clings to those pictures of himself from when he dropped a few pounds. Of course no matter how badly he treats himself, he’ll probably never suffer any kind of massive health emergency, because God just doesn’t love us enough for that to happen.
cal: Yes, that was cool. Would have been cooler if she could have brought herself to utter the words “birth control”. I suppose that might have jeopardized the support she gets from her 2,471 family members, though.
She could be Secretary of Commerce. Um. Also.
historians have shown Genghis Khan wasn’t THAT bad.
I’m not so sure history will be so kind to Mrs. Palin…but it’s possible that in a thousand years she too will get the benefit of the doubt from academia.
unfortunately, this will come too late for her to win the presidency. unless she’s cryogenically frozen.
If the MSM would just quit picking on Palin she would find the reform and oil Alaska people family private tax cuts with Bristol getting married soon conservatives snow, you betcha’.
groove: Palin is loathsome. I don’t watch Faux News (surprise, surprise) but I did see a clip of that sad little teenager, wistfully saying she wishes she could have an education and a career before she got tied to a baby. And abstinence is a nice thing except it doesn’t work.
If there were ever an argument for abortion, poor little Bristol–the victim of her mother’s political ambition–is it. And daughter sounds smarter than mom.
CorkPopper: I was so touched by little Bristol that I’ve given up hoping that someone discovers that Louie–Lenny–Levi–whateve the baby dad’s name is–is her second cousin. Now I’ll settle for second cousin once-removed.
Palin no longer amuses me.
Servo: I think that’s called Chapter 1, so it’s easy find.
Didn’t this woman get $5 million dollars this year to author a coloring book or something?
mavericky!
I just assumed that everyone in Alaska got $$$ for sleeping in their own homes, because of the inconvenience to their lives caused by pipelines and oil rigs filling their backyards, not to mention the ambient noise of Gulfstreams full of oil executives causing turbulence in their cold clean air.
Alaska, or The People’s Republic of White Trash.
S.Luggo: I’ve never understood why this concept is shocking or controversial or menacing. Why wouldn’t the wealthiest people pay the most taxes? Would it make more sense if the stats were 80% of the nations tax revenue come from the lowest 20% of incomes?
SayItWithWookies: this
This from the woman who vowed to bring change to Washington. Guess that meant any nickels and pennies she could find under sofa cushions and in gutters.
Palin. The gift that keeps on giving.
I want to pay her taxes so she can run in 2012.
Even Genghis Khan knew enough to have a secular state. Don’t sully his reputation by lumping him in with her! SP is more like a retarded Blagojevich.
WikipediaBrown: Some could interpret that remark to mean SP is really smart, since two negatives do make a positive.
I for one would be glad to pay my taxes and then some, if I had a job… or a computer to file my turbo tax return… ohhhh, I am going back to sleeping under my carboard box now….
Do the Palins have moosenutz dangling from the rear of their snow machines?
Were they bought with taxpayer dollars (or is that rubles)?
shenanigans?
Please save us from further Palin coverage - we should all take vows to abstain from it. Just as soon as we check this article out about why…
http://tinyurl.com/bjbrw8