Everyone must pay their taxes but me!
Sherrod Brown apparently believes that the law is only applicable to the rest of us
Sherrod Brown, Democrat candidate for US Senate from Ohio, has admitted that legal action had to be taken against him to force him to pay unemployment taxes on his business. The details, though, seem to be hazy even to him.
Brown first said that he did not pay unemployment taxes for twelve years; however, he has now changed his story to be that he "made a mistake," and that he did finally pay them -- but only after the State of Ohio took legal action against him.
Says the DeWine campaign:
"Worse still, he's got the nerve to try to blame the DeWine campaign for his own financial mismanagement. Tuesday his campaign said Sherrod paid his tax bill in 2005. Today, they say, no wait, he only waited until after the state took legal action against him to pay his late tax obligation. Oh, and he says that he must have forgotten to get the lien released that the State had been forced to file against him."
Elected officials in our government, who have the power, as John Galt so blithely put it, to take money earned by the citizens at the point of a gun, must at the very least follow the same laws -- and pay the same taxes -- which they require from us. Sherrod Brown has shown that he cannot be trusted to do that very simple thing.
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2006/everyone_must_pay_their_taxes_but_me
