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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    BREAKING: Granholm and Cherry busted by Feds for failure to pay taxes!!!


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 02:24:25 PM EST
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    So after all that talk about the importance of new revenues the woman didn't even pay her own taxes?  Shocking details are emerging today that indicate Michigan's most prominent tax-hike advocates, Governor Jennifer Granholm and John Cherry, are in trouble with the federal government for, get this... refusing to pay their taxes!  The kind of trouble you don't get in for a minor offense.  The kind of trouble that only comes after repeated notifications from the federal government.

    A couple of sources indicate that Lansing's Channel 10 News will lead tonight's broadcast with the news that the United States Department of Treasury has slapped a $19,500 lien on the executive team's inaugural committee for failure to pay taxes.  That means that the same Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the State of Michigan who last year told working moms and dads that they had to fork over an extra $1.5 billion currently refuse to pay nearly twenty-thousand dollars in federal taxes.  

    A lien, boys and girls, is a big deal.  It means that the federal government can seize assets and come to collect the cash themselves, by force.  

    No wonder Granholm and Cherry thought the government needed additional revenue.  They knew there was a gaping hole in the budget created by their own chronic and ongoing delinquency.  Though delinquency might be the wrong word.  That implies that they're going to eventually pay their back taxes.  The Granholm Cherry Inaugural Committee hasn't really had any parties to plan for the last few years.  If they couldn't be bothered to pay their taxes to this point why on earth would they start now?  (Though something tells me this story might provide just the kick in the pants the feds need to collect what the duo owes.)

    This is the same Gov and LG who rammed a record shattering tax hike through the legislature last year, whose taxpayer funded budgets have increased by billions of dollars since 2002 and who are currently entrusted with the responsibility to budget and spend forty-three billion dollars this year alone.  Tax dollars.  Tax dollars normal folks paid to the government.  On time.  Apparently Granholm and Cherry have taken taxpayer funded paychecks so long they think that only the little people pay taxes.

    Can't blame this one of John Engler, or the Chinese, or the Republicans, or President Bush, or NAFTA, CAFTA, the SHAFTA, the Cookie Monster, Big Foot... I'm sorry Madame Governor... Sasquatch...

    But then again, this is the level of incompetence we've come to expect from the Granholm administration.  Well, ok, so maybe it's a few feet deeper into the incompetence pool than most of their typical mismanagement.

    The biggest tax hikers in the history of the State... tax cheats.  Sorta sets a whole new standard for liberal hypocrisy doesn't it?

    < Raiders of the Lost Treasury | I.C.E Starts Doing Their Job >


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    We can only hope. (none / 0) (#1)
    by LookingforReagan on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 03:04:15 PM EST
    We can only hope that this ends up in court with both of the felons being charged by the Feds. It is about time. It also begs the question. If they won't pay taxes what else is there?  What else is there to be uncovered? Is this the tip of the iceberg? Let us hope so. We also should be demanding that Granholm and Cherry resign in the wake of these Fedearl allegations. After all how can a person that has been charged with a crime as serious as this still function as a chief executive? They both should resign immediatly. Not tomorrow, not next week. Today, now, right away. Go and never darken the landscape of Michigan again.

    Who do we tap on in the Legislature... (none / 0) (#2)
    by KG One on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 03:15:22 PM EST
    ...to do their job?

    Art 7, Sec 33 of the Michigan Constitution clearly spells out what needs to be done here.

    Get them on the horn, toot sweet!

    What a bunch of hypocrites... (none / 0) (#3)
    by Michigan Redneck on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 03:48:38 PM EST
    ...is all I can say.  What about the children?  How many ipods could those back taxes pay for? (sarcasm included ;P)

    Penalty? (none / 0) (#4)
    by Shell on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 07:04:35 PM EST
    What I don't see on the Notice of Lien is the amount of tax originally owed and the penalty, if any.  I'm assuming the current total includes any late penalty but it should say somewhere on the document.

    Shell,
    The Conservatrarian

    Maybe she should resign (none / 0) (#6)
    by Dutchsma on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 10:38:07 PM EST
    And John Cherry too.  We can hold a special election for governor at the same time we hold another primary election for the Democrat presidential candidates.

    I wonder if she paid her Michigan taxes.

     

    Question for Nick. (none / 0) (#7)
    by KG One on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 09:26:30 AM EST
    I understand that the MI-GOP put out a press release yesterday on the guv/lt. guv getting caught at tax evasion.

    I know that you have an ear a little closer to the source. Aside from putting out press releases, is anyone in Lansing going to show some integrity and do something?

    I cited the area of the Michigan Constitution above where they have the authority.

    I can understand the democrats not wanting to touch this story with a ten-foot pole, but Republican Representatives/Senators?

    I'd hate to see this turn into a story that will quickly be forgotten by Monday?

    Thanx, for the response. (none / 0) (#9)
    by KG One on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 10:27:48 AM EST
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