/ biatch set me up

Let's put a little Columbia in the District.

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.

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?!

Why do you have to pay taxes when taxes pay your salary?

Who set him up this time?

IRS set me up!

He's angling for a sweet cabinet post.

Liberals. He should become the next Treasury Secretary.

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?

That is probably the most snark I've seen from a mainstream channel news website.

fireclown: He's angling for a sweet cabinet post.

Drug Czar!

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

Was he supposed to be a precursor to Change and Hope?



/or is it Hope and Change?

What Marion Barry smoking crack might look like:

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.

Why does anyone in DC have to pay federal taxes?

maybe it's hoping you have some change.

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.

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.

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.

vernonFL: Why does anyone in DC have to pay federal taxes?

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

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.

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.

I'm sure it was just a little mistake.

Goddamn that's one giant booger hanging out of his nose

APPROVES!

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.

$92,000 ain't much in DC. He must be living in an SRO.

Just whitey trying to keep the black man down!

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.

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.

Alfonso... Scofield...Junior...

/obscure, but hopefully not too obscure for Fark

why crack? why not coke? i don't get it...

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.

It's a common mistake, OBAMA told me so!

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.

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...

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.

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

Mayor Crackhead in trouble with the IRS for not paying his taxes.

I thought subby was talking about Herr Bloombucks again.

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.

Okay, just change the license plates to: "Representation without taxation."

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.

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?

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?

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?
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White people have it so hard.

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.'

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

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!"