WFB: A California Democrat who owes nearly $145,000 in unpaid federal income taxes voted on Wednesday to block a bill requiring members of Congress to disclose tax liens.
The IRS filed a tax lien against Rep. T.J. Cox (D., Calif.) in January, listing nearly $87,000 and $57,000 in unpaid federal income taxes from 2016 and 2017, respectively. The congressman on Wednesday voted to block legislation that would force politicians to reveal such liens in congressional financial disclosures. The bill would also garnish federal wages from elected officials until the debt is resolved.
The vote comes as Cox faces a tough reelection fight in 2020 against former California Republican representative David Valadao, who Cox defeated by less than 1 point in the closest congressional race of 2018. While election observers, including the Cook Political Report, rate the 21st Congressional District as “lean Democratic,” Republicans have seen positive signs that they will be able to flip the district following the March primary. California has open primaries in which the two candidates with the most votes, regardless of party, face off in the general election. Valadao received 53 percent of the primary vote, compared with Cox’s 36 percent. read more
…this is why the Democrat monkeys always wanna run the zoo, to cover up their OWN corruption…
Tax liens usually result from failure to respond to numerous deficiency notices and collection efforts, refusing to pay the taxes, and avoiding any kind of payment plan or other settlement of the tax debt.
They generally aren’t the first step the IRS takes, more like one of the last ones after everything else has failed to produce any result.
Didn’t recuse himself from this vote = unfit for office.
Can someone please total up the number of CA officeholders that require incarceration?
Gee Wally, you sure that head doesn’t open up to reveal a tiny alien?
Anonymous
MARCH 12, 2020 AT 8:17 AM
“Didn’t recuse himself from this vote = unfit for office.
Can someone please total up the number of CA officeholders that require incarceration?”
…if you look up how many ARE there total, I think it will be the same number…
…Government is like the Mob. You can’t join unless you commit a crime. That way, if you get exposy, you get exposed.
Or dead.
Or both.
…that’s how omerta works…
One wonders if the real reason to call someone a bot is to shut down free speech.
Do those who love censorship just want to live in an echo chamber and avoid alternative viewpoints?
Are those traitorous Americans who want to shut down free speech any different from the psychopathic elites who want to kill off the 99% and the Gestapo who enforce unconstitutional laws?
Does censorship help Americans resist or help the ruling powers send Americans to the concentration camps more efficiently?
How could proud Americans who used to love morality, peace, freedom, and balanced budgets now embrace immorality, war, tyranny, and debt?
Do you honestly think being forced to give your fingerprints to the government, DUI laws, checkpoints, seatbelt laws, car liability insurance laws, neighborhood watch groups, “get tough on crime” politicians, laws allowing mandatory minimums, IMBRA, 3 strikes laws, curfews, police militarization, teen boot camps, school metal detectors, private prisons, chain gangs, nanny state laws, the Patriot Act, NSA wiretapping, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, kill switches, National Security Letters, DNA databases, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, Operation Chokepoint, TSA groping, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, Jade Helm, sneak and peek warrants, policing for profit, no refusal blood checkpoints, license plate readers, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, tattoo databases, gun bans, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, searches without warrants, CISPA, SOPA, private prison quotas, supermax prisons, FOSTA, sex offender registration laws, sex offender restriction laws, and the police state are just a joke?
Disgusting.
How can Americans sleep now or look in a mirror without feeling ashamed?
The whole country is collapsing into mass insanity.
Well, he just may of handed his GOP opponent the election with this. A full page ad (and a TV one) explaining that the Congressman gets to veto rules that would have forced him to follow rules that the voters have to follow.
Only qualifies him to run for the senate and then president…