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Taxes For Thee, But Not For MSNBC


If there?s one thing that MSNBC personalities Al Sharpton, Melissa Harris-Perry, Toure, and Joy Ann Reid hate, it?s wealthy one-percenters not paying their fair share in taxes.

But if there?s one thing MSNBC personalities Al Sharpton, Melissa Harris-Perry, Toure, and Joy Ann Reid apparently don?t do, it?s pay their fair share in taxes.

Because while all four have been droning on about the responsibility of the wealthy to pay more in taxes, all four have also been dodging their own responsibility to pay their taxes.

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The IRS placed a lien on Harris-Perry and her husband because of a whopping $70,000 in unpaid back taxes, but that didn?t stop her from saying this on her show on April 12th:

We?re just three days away from the big day. Now all you highly organized, get-it-done early types have already met the deadline and we procrastinators are going to be up very late for the next few evenings as we face April 15?Tax Day.

Filing and paying taxes is not fun, but it?s part of being an American. But some are so offended by the idea of taking a portion of our individual resources and pooling them together to do things like build roads and provide public education that they make cutting taxes their one and only solution to all social, economic and political problems they encounter.

Speaking of problems with taxes, Harris-Perry?s colleague Toure has $59,000 worth. In between New York state filing two separate tax warrants against Toure and his wife, he tweeted this out:

That was more than a year ago, and Toure still hasn?t paid up, but he has been on TV calling for more taxes on other people.

"If we can just talk about raising taxes on the wealthy and that?s not some sort of political bugaboo, that just begins the conversation that makes me very comfortable," he said on the January 18th edition of "Up with Steve Kornacki." "I think lowering taxes on the wealthy has been a huge detriment on the economy for a long time."

Reid?s tax debt totals nearly $5,000, but she wholly ignored it when she went on "Meet the Press" to advocate for what she called "smart tax increases."



Reid, Toure, and Harris-Perry, though, owe just a tiny fraction of what their colleague Al Sharpton does.

According to The New York Times, the IRS currently has more than $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens against Sharpton and his various for-profit businesses; a number that doesn?t even include his non-profit National Action Network.

Sharpton, by any objective measure a very wealthy man, still routinely takes to his show to rail against tax cuts for the wealthy.



Heck, he even made an MSNBC promo about it.



Of course, the irony there is that Sharpton owes enough money to literally buy a bridge, but irony seems to be totally lost on him and his MSNBC colleagues, who continue to call for more taxes on others even as they refuse to pay theirs.

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A Brief History of Fantastically Wrong Climate Change Predictions


The modern environmentalist movement began in earnest in 1970, when activists founded Earth Day as a way to call attention to the ways in which man-made climate change was destroying the planet.

Then, as now, those activists claimed a scientific consensus about just how devastating the impact of climate change would be, yet for 45 years now, scientists (not activists, scientists) have been consistently wrong in their doomsday predictions.



Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the father of Earth Day said before the first Earth Day in 1970 that ?the secretary of the Smithsonian Institute believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.?

Not to be outdone, Life Magazine reported that same year that ?Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support?the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution?by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half?.?

Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, the celebrated author of The Climate Bomb, wrote in 1971 that "by the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people ? If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.?

In 1975 Newsweek ran a now-infamous article entitled ?The Cooling World,? which cited several climate scientists in concluding that ?the central fact is that?the earth?s climate seems to be cooling down?If the climate change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.?

Global famine was a popular prediction in the 70?s. North Texas State professor Pete Gunter summed up the prevailing sentiment when he wrote in ?The Lving Wilderness? that by ?by the year 2000...the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.?

In 1986, NASA scientist James Hansen testified before Congress that ?global temperatures should be nearly 2 degrees higher in 20 years, ?which is about the warmest the earth has been in the last 100,000 years.??

Two years later, Dr. Hansen told an interviewer that in 20 years, the area below his New York City office would be completely changed, most notably that ?the West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water.?

Even the great Carl Sagan predicted in 1990 that ?the planet could face an ?ecological and agricultural catastrophe? by the next decade if global warming trends continue.?

That same year, Dr. Michael Oppenheimer with The Environmental Defense Fund wrote:

By 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots??(By 1996) The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers?The Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

As recently as the last decade, both Dr. Hansen and Peter Wadhams, the head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge, believe ?that the Arctic is likely to become ice-free...as early as 2015.?

That?s actually two years later than Al Gore predicted in 2007, 2008, and 2009, when he cited what he called a scientific consensus to claim that the North Pole would be ?ice free by 2013.?

That?s good, because Pentagon scientists sure weren?t in 2003, when their report ?An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and its Implications for United States National Security? warned that within 10 years, ?it was not implausible? that parts of California would be flooded, parts of the Netherlands would be uninhabitable, and an unprecedented rise in hurricanes, tsunamis, and tornadoes would spark wars across the globe as people fought for increasingly scarce resources.

Not to be outdone, scientists with the United Nations Environment Programme warned in 2005 that man-made global warming would so decimate coastal areas as well as the Caribbean and Pacific islands that there would be upwards of 50 million ?climate refugees by 2010.?

Of course, none of these scientific predictions?from Earth Day straight through today?have ever actually been right, but more predictions keep coming...along with more admonitions that the science is settled.

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Like i said, plagiarism is not an indication of understanding

 

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Like i said, plagiarism is not an indication of understanding

Plagiarism is not posting another's work, it is posting another's work and taking credit for it. Damn you are a simpleton.
Go sit with all your circle jerk libs here because the rest of us know you are nothing but a blithering fraud.

 

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Plagiarism is not posting another's work, it is posting another's work and taking credit for it. Damn you are a simpleton.
Go sit with all your circle jerk libs here because the rest of us know you are nothing but a blithering fraud.

Blithering fraud? So you're saying that I'm a senselessly talkative faker? That doesn't even make sense.

A Mike Tyson haiku makes more sense. You really need to get past fifth grade reading and comprehension. You sound like a blithering idiot.

Hope this helps,
FDC