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Liberal media attack Matt Drudge over him paying his self described Liberty Tax; And the idots can't admit they have egg on their face when proven wrong
Topic Started: Mar 22 2014, 10:15 PM (253 Views)
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This my friends is hilarious. An uninformed White House aide leads the charge of the light (mentally light left media) brigade to it's Waterloo. A big problem with the left media and the non business taxpayer class in general, is that they know next to nothing about the tax law. With close to 50% being exempt from federal income taxes, I suppose this shouldn't surprise me.

I wonder when the White House is going to educate it's attack dogs about the truth? :smile:



http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/21/White-House-Leads-Liberal-Media-In-Matt-Drudge-Attack

‘LIBERTY TAX’: WHITE HOUSE, MEDIA ATTACK AFTER DRUDGE PAYS OBAMACARE OPT-OUT PENALTY


by MATTHEW BOYLE 21 Mar 2014 9055 POST A COMMENT

A White House aide set off a stampede of liberal media criticism for Internet news pioneer Matt Drudge over Obamacare – but his critics don't seem to understand how small businesses pay taxes.

The brouhaha started when Drudge tweeted, “Just paid the Obamacare penalty for not 'getting covered'... I'M CALLING IT A LIBERTY TAX.” Jesse Lee, the Director of Progressive Media at Barack Obama's White House, responded that that was a “Flat lie, no fee for previous year,” adding, “Scary how much influence he once had.” Lee’s response to Drudge set off a firestorm in the liberal media, with many mainstream media and left-wing reporters countering him on Twitter and in their own articles to claim he does not have to pay Obamacare’s Individual Mandate tax until next year. The individual mandate went into effect Jan. 1 of this year, and most people paying their taxes right now are paying taxes for 2013.

“Dude, there's no penalty until next yr,” Sahil Kapur of the leftwing Talking Points Memo tweeted.

Kapur’s colleague at TPM Dylan Scott wrote a full story with a headline alleging Drudge was “probably lying.” “Americans don't pay a penalty for not having health insurance until they file their 2014 taxes -- in 2015,” Scott wrote. “So either Drudge is lying or he paid a huge penalty a year earlier than he needed to.” “Penalty isn't collected until 2015,” Sam Baker of National Journal tweeted at Drudge.

The Huffington Post’s Jeffrey Young wrote a full article in which he described Drudge’s tweet as “weird” and a “little head-scratching” because the Obamacare tax does not kick in until the 2014 tax year.

Drudge indicated in his followup tweets that since he is self-employed as the proprietor of The Drudge Report, he files as a small business. According to the IRS’s website for self-employed individuals, they are required to pay taxes quarterly. “As a self-employed individual, generally you are required to file an annual return and pay estimated tax quarterly,” the IRS website reads. So, when they file and pay those 2014 first quarter taxes, such individuals have to pay the Obamacare Individual Mandate tax if they opted to not have health insurance—like Drudge just did. Additionally, the IRS form (1040-ES) for estimating quarterly taxes specifically recommends adding the mandate penalty to line 12 for "other taxes" -- to pay before the first quarterly deadline of April 15. “It is true that thousands of small businesses will be forced to pay Obamacare taxes quarterly in 2014,” a Senate Budget Committee aide told Breitbart News on Friday afternoon. Drudge even indicated as much in followup tweets, but the left-wing reporters—and the White House—have left their criticisms of him intact. “Dazed team Obama media reporters think Opt-Out tax 'year away’?” Drudge tweeted. “Not for small businesses that file Qtr estimates. We're there NOW, baby #pay.”

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Here is the White House aide's response--- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/matt-drudge-obamacare_n_5009496.html

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This upsets the left because they are trying to hide the facts until after November.
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Yet the liberals say they know what is contained in the law. LOL
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/matt-drudge-obamacare_n_5009496.html
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You are behind again thumper. Pat already put that link in his post.

Huff Post is getting no better than MediaMatters MediaLies. The Dems are getting desperate.

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I still say the most alarming yet funny part of all of this is the Whitehouse aide being unaware of the law. And we know that the aide had the blessing of high ups or the remark would have never been released to the public. The Whitehouse still does not know what is in the ACA.
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It is tragic. There is no excuse for it. It points out how incompetent this administration really is and how the left wing media will follow it no matter what the facts are.

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Agree and that was one of the motivations i had in posting the story. So tragic yet ironic. You have to feel for the small business owners and others who are being extorted from. It's a sad day in America when a otherwise law abiding American is forced to break the law because they literally cannot afford to go down the Obamacare path.
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As more and more of the small business owners wake up to reality the word will get out. Well before November.

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