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(NBC 4) Dumbass Mayor Crackhead in trouble with the IRS for not paying his taxes. Again. This is not a repeat from 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 or 2004   (nbcwashington.com) divider line 82
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veedeevadeevoodee [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 09:20:15 AM  
divinebynature.tripod.com

/ biatch set me up

 
UNC_Samurai [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 09:23:15 AM  
Let's put a little Columbia in the District.

 
Walker [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 09:48:18 AM  
And if you click on the Washington Post link in the article it says not only did he not pay his taxes 1999-2004, but he also didn't pay his taxes for 2005, violating his parole. Instead of sending him to jail the idiot judge allowed him to remain on probation because she said she did not think the prosecutor proved that Barry had "intentionally" and "willfully" failed to file the returns. What?? This guy is a Teflon crackhead, nothing sticks to him. He is the DMX of politics. Not only does he never go to jail, but he is STILL on the D.C. City Council. Unbelievable.

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 10:17:37 AM  
Walker: And if you click on the Washington Post link in the article it says not only did he not pay his taxes 1999-2004, but he also didn't pay his taxes for 2005, violating his parole. Instead of sending him to jail the idiot judge allowed him to remain on probation because she said she did not think the prosecutor proved that Barry had "intentionally" and "willfully" failed to file the returns. What?? This guy is a Teflon crackhead, nothing sticks to him. He is the DMX of politics. Not only does he never go to jail, but he is STILL on the D.C. City Council. Unbelievable.

As they say, the people elect the leaders they deserve. Which begs the question: WTF did you people in DC do to deserve that?!

 
jaylectricity [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 10:24:09 AM  
Why do you have to pay taxes when taxes pay your salary?

 
DeadZone 2009-01-29 10:55:46 AM  
Who set him up this time?

 
CouchMonkey 2009-01-29 10:55:58 AM  
IRS set me up!

 
fireclown 2009-01-29 10:56:55 AM  
He's angling for a sweet cabinet post.

 
Nemo's Brother 2009-01-29 10:57:39 AM  
Liberals. He should become the next Treasury Secretary.

 
vaconex 2009-01-29 10:57:48 AM  
I owe the IRS $12k in back taxes. They threated to come after my banking accounts and paycheck.

How do these guys get away with this?

 
Barak vEsh 2009-01-29 10:58:35 AM  
That is probably the most snark I've seen from a mainstream channel news website.

 
Brown Sauce 2009-01-29 10:58:57 AM  
fireclown: He's angling for a sweet cabinet post.

Drug Czar!

 
denbroc 2009-01-29 11:02:50 AM  
jalopnik.com

/Or not...
//Whatever you want to do, man...
///There's enough other suckers to pick up your load...

 
KentuckyBob 2009-01-29 11:03:52 AM  
Was he supposed to be a precursor to Change and Hope?



/or is it Hope and Change?

 
Sin_City_Superhero 2009-01-29 11:06:16 AM  
What Marion Barry smoking crack might look like:
www.matadorrecords.com

 
TheNext 2009-01-29 11:06:23 AM  
How does anyone get away with this? I got a warrant for being late on my state taxes (30 days) for $120 - the first time I was ever late. Because they didn't take tax out of my unemployment no less. Over an error.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:06:43 AM  
Why does anyone in DC have to pay federal taxes?

 
Okie Cynic 2009-01-29 11:06:47 AM  
maybe it's hoping you have some change.

 
dragonchild 2009-01-29 11:06:58 AM  
vaconex: I owe the IRS $12k in back taxes. They threated to come after my banking accounts and paycheck. How do these guys get away with this?

I don't owe the IRS any taxes because I pay on time, so they never bother me. Same with everyone I know. I also hate tax dodgers because that only increases the share I have to pay.

Basically, I don't care what the fark they do to your bank accounts and paycheck. $12k?? Let 'em drain you dry 'til you're starving on the street.

 
NuclearWinter 2009-01-29 11:07:02 AM  
vaconex: I owe the IRS $12k in back taxes. They threated to come after my banking accounts and paycheck.

How do these guys get away with this?


This.

 
milowitz 2009-01-29 11:07:44 AM  
Always the little people getting screwed up the ace for not paying taxes, crackhead pieces of crap like this get away with it. HUGE surprise.

 
DROxINxTHExWIND [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:08:48 AM  
vernonFL: Why does anyone in DC have to pay federal taxes?

Taxation without representation, baby. It's on the license plates.

 
Linux_Yes [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:11:26 AM  
in the United shiatthole of America, you can be busted for crack and keep your job as mayor.

as chris rock would say, if you worked at mcdonalds, and was busted for crack, you would loose ur job. after all, they can't trust you with the happy meals anymore.

 
fireclown 2009-01-29 11:11:30 AM  
Brown Sauce: fireclown: He's angling for a sweet cabinet post.

Drug Czar!


I was going for Secretary Of The Treasury, but that's good too.

 
otterly_delicious [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:12:07 AM  
i40.tinypic.com

I'm sure it was just a little mistake.

 
tortilla burger 2009-01-29 11:12:42 AM  
Goddamn that's one giant booger hanging out of his nose

 
denbroc 2009-01-29 11:12:52 AM  
www.bloomberg.com

APPROVES!

 
Linux_Yes [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:13:09 AM  
denbroc: /Or not...
//Whatever you want to do, man...
///There's enough other suckers to pick up your load...


and the reason our crony capitalist pig rich republicans didn't vote for the stimulus bill is bec. they didn't get their usual tax cut that the turd shrub gave them every year.

and they just LOVE america.

 
vonster 2009-01-29 11:14:05 AM  
$92,000 ain't much in DC. He must be living in an SRO.

 
NYZooMan 2009-01-29 11:16:35 AM  
Just whitey trying to keep the black man down!

 
His Mexcellency 2009-01-29 11:16:37 AM  
vaconex: I owe the IRS $12k in back taxes. They threated to come after my banking accounts and paycheck.

How do these guys get away with this?


I don't see anybody getting away with anything. Maybe the punishment is light for Marion, but then again, so is yours.

\Once owed $600 in back taxes for 3 years
\\IRS said the same thing to me
\\\error on their part. it was resolved. I owed nothing.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:17:27 AM  
When I lived in DC I didn't mind paying federal taxes - because I lived right by the zoo and the zoo is free. I went to the zoo almost every day. The parks are free. Most museums are free.

 
Ebenator 2009-01-29 11:17:45 AM  
Alfonso... Scofield...Junior...

/obscure, but hopefully not too obscure for Fark

 
Headso 2009-01-29 11:18:11 AM  
why crack? why not coke? i don't get it...

 
tower of pisa 2009-01-29 11:18:33 AM  
i can't believe it!!!!!

Main Man Marion still mayor after all these years. He was a total jerk in the early 80's when i lived in the area and we suburbanites all wondered how he kept himself in office. I didn't realize he was still in but when i saw the headline i thought, "i gotta check and see if it's him". Goodness gracious me. He's kinda like Castro--too awful to die a normal death and get out of politics.

 
Welfare Xmas 2009-01-29 11:19:37 AM  
It's a common mistake, OBAMA told me so!

 
lelio 2009-01-29 11:21:53 AM  
How can he not pay taxes? I can see if one is an independent contractor doing work but this guy lives off the state. Shouldn't they be automatically taking taxes out of his paycheck? Something's rotten here.

 
dc0012c 2009-01-29 11:23:29 AM  
I just wish this asshat would go away. I moved from Baltimore to DC when Sharon Pratt Kelly became mayor because who would vote that clown Barry back in?

Whoops.

MFL (Mayor For Life) was voted back in on his typical populist, largesse-granting platform, promising what he couldn't deliver but the masses wanted to hear. When Barry was elected, it was the first time I had ever voted for a Republican and did so not as a protest, but because I thought Carol Schwartz was a better candidate. However, Barry's gospel-laced mea culpa convinced a lot of folks to vote for him. Fortunately, his ineptness at leadership and his legendary preferential treatment of DC contracts caught up with him and Mayor Williams came in. What a breath of fresh air that was in DC.

Of course, with Congress still holding the pursestrings and having to approve any laws, being Mayor of DC is like being President of the Student Council - lots of trappings and hoopla, but really only able to offer suggestions. "The man" is still in charge and we all know how timely and non-partisan the Congress is...

 
JoeJitsu 2009-01-29 11:24:33 AM  
Here's the current debate:

DC: We want to elect our own voting members in Congress! Remember taxation without representation? We want to have a say in how the nation is run!

Rebuttal: You keep electing Marion Barry.

DC: Oops. Never mind.

 
Hydra 2009-01-29 11:27:34 AM  
vaconex: I owe the IRS $12k in back taxes. They threated to come after my banking accounts and paycheck.

How do these guys get away with this?


Because he's black and he's a Democrat.

/DC politics sounds a lot like Detroit politics

 
black_knight 2009-01-29 11:27:52 AM  
Mayor Crackhead in trouble with the IRS for not paying his taxes.

I thought subby was talking about Herr Bloombucks again.

 
Walker [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:29:37 AM  
tower of pisa: i can't believe it!!!!!

Main Man Marion still mayor after all these years. He was a total jerk in the early 80's when i lived in the area and we suburbanites all wondered how he kept himself in office. I didn't realize he was still in but when i saw the headline i thought, "i gotta check and see if it's him". Goodness gracious me. He's kinda like Castro--too awful to die a normal death and get out of politics.


He's not the Mayor anymore, he's on the city council. The "Mayor for Life" thing is something that he started being called by the media back in the late 80's (even before he was caught smoking crack) because he remained Mayor scandal after scandal.

 
Omnivorous 2009-01-29 11:30:09 AM  
Okay, just change the license plates to: "Representation without taxation."

 
Barak vEsh 2009-01-29 11:32:23 AM  
tower of pisa: i can't believe it!!!!!

Main Man Marion still mayor after all these years. He was a total jerk in the early 80's when i lived in the area and we suburbanites all wondered how he kept himself in office. I didn't realize he was still in but when i saw the headline i thought, "i gotta check and see if it's him". Goodness gracious me. He's kinda like Castro--too awful to die a normal death and get out of politics.


No, no, he's not mayor again. He's on the city council.

 
Crude 2009-01-29 11:35:04 AM  
Silly journalist, don't you know anything?


He's black and he's a Democrat politician. Don't you know that common law and tax laws do not apply to them?

 
inglixthemad [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:35:33 AM  
vaconex: I owe the IRS $12k in back taxes. They threated to come after my banking accounts and paycheck.

How do these guys get away with this?


Connections.

The real question is: who keeps electing this waste?

 
DROxINxTHExWIND [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:36:04 AM  
Crude: Silly journalist, don't you know anything?


He's black and he's a Democrat politician. Don't you know that common law and tax laws do not apply to them?

====================================

White people have it so hard.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:38:28 AM  
inglixthemad: The real question is: who keeps electing this waste?

Barry represents Southeast DC. Its the forgotten and shiat upon part that nobody cares about. Its the part that when you go to RFK stadium you go 'eww, this is the ghetto.'

 
Dr Dreidel 2009-01-29 11:42:14 AM  
JoeJitsu: You keep electing Marion Barry.

Merryonberry rilly speaks t' th' com'un'ty.

// not making fun of the community, making fun of the MFL's inflection
// dude sounds like he's hiding rocks in his mouth
// prob'ly is
// THIS IS WHY WE CAN"T HAVE STATEHOOD NICE THINGS

 
rpa [TotalFark] 2009-01-29 11:45:46 AM  
you have to imagine the appropriate pic here, couldn't find one...

"as mayor of the altered state of druagachusetts, i declare this pizza to be... AWESOME!"

 
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