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(In my best Paul Gleason voice from the film ‘Breaking Away’) ….. Refund?…..REFUND???
April 14th, 2006 at 8:48 pmDid the “liberal” media bother to say “Haliburton stock options.”
Jeebus, why don’t these guys do their jobs?
April 14th, 2006 at 8:53 pmIt may be instructive to note that the V.P. paid $75,560 to churches last year. The price of get outa hell, as announced by his higher power has been seasonally adjusted upward…while the qualifications to be a member of the ruling elite have been significantly lowered. He’s still goin’ to hell.
April 14th, 2006 at 8:58 pmCrazy.
April 14th, 2006 at 8:59 pm#3 ONLY $75,560 to churches last year? That won’t get him out of hell–at least 10 percent gets you out of hell. God is watching…
April 14th, 2006 at 9:10 pmSuck the national coffers dry and score a sweet tax refund on top of it.
What a sweet racket that must be – too bad you have to be soulless to get the gig.
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April 14th, 2006 at 9:27 pmhttp://griperblade.blogspot.com – grumblings from the heartland
He makes that kind of money while NOT doing his job. lmpeach this crook.
April 14th, 2006 at 9:33 pmHow many years would the average person have to work in order to make what the Dark Lord has comin’ to him in the form of a refund?
Just wondering….
April 14th, 2006 at 9:37 pmI wonder if he shall live long enough to spend his lust of evil
April 14th, 2006 at 9:44 pmwell, 1,900,000. / 50,000.(yr) = 38 years. GROSS
1,900,000. / 40,000 = 47.5 years. Again, GROSS
To make the freaking refund amount of this a$$hole.
April 14th, 2006 at 9:45 pmHey — this is a deceptive thread. I hate them as much as the next guy but if you read the article they paid in over $2 million in advance taxes. They’re really only getting their own money back. If you and I had $1.9 million on hand we, too, could give it to the IRS over the course of the year and end up with such a large refund.
I’m not saying he’s a crook, I’m only saying that bouncing around a headline like “$1.9 mill tax refund to Cheney” is really horse-pucky and beneath us.
There’s plenty to be angry about. This really doesn’t rank.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
April 14th, 2006 at 9:47 pmYou can buy a lot of ammunition for $1.9 million…
April 14th, 2006 at 10:42 pmSiriusA~
April 14th, 2006 at 10:56 pmJust take to account money value…do you really think that this egotistical, hate-filled, soul-less sociopathic pathetically inept individual should be worth $8.82M. annually?
Come on man, fascits ownership society has some boundaries doesn’t it? Have you no decency sir…at long last, have you decency?
It’s an issue that centers on their gifts to charity that were enabled by the exercising of stock options. They paid tax on those options when exercised and then received a refund thanks to the tax code for overpaying.
When I first saw it on CNN I was a little curious but the refund is normal and legal. Whether he deserves the money in the first place, let alone his position, is another matter:)
April 14th, 2006 at 10:58 pmif he had any “heart” he would donate it to victims of gunshot wounds
April 14th, 2006 at 11:01 pmSince he’s been in office, my hourly wage has dropped by $10 an hour, and I had to PAY $1200 this year. Refund? What f’n refund?
April 14th, 2006 at 11:08 pmhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/14/bush.taxes.ap/index.html
The Cheneys reported adjusted gross income of nearly $8.82 million, which was largely the result of exercising stock options that had been set aside in 2001 for charity.
The Cheneys donated just under $6.87 million to charity from the stock options and royalties from Mrs. Cheney’s books. That left about $1.9 million in income on which the Cheney’s owed $529,636 in taxes.
April 14th, 2006 at 11:19 pmWeapons of Math Destruction, Paul Krugman’s latest, addresses this very same issue.
April 15th, 2006 at 12:26 amWait a minute, wait a goddamn minute.
He paid 1.9 million in advance taxes, and then got a 1.9 million refund?
That means that shooter and his gay wife did not pay any income taxes.
April 15th, 2006 at 9:40 amWait a minute, wait a goddamn minute.
He paid 1.9 million in advance taxes, and then got a 1.9 million refund?
That means that shooter and his gay wife did not pay any income taxes.
April 15th, 2006 at 9:40 amThat’s right Paul, I saw that right off to, yah I did. No matter. The point should not be how much blood money this evil sob has raked in, it should be how do we get his evil ass out of our white house, now whore house before they blow up another country or put us all in jail because we believe in our constitution and civil rights…..Blessings
April 15th, 2006 at 9:55 amLee R. Raymond is the former Chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil. He was one of the Chairmen who testified before the criminal TRAITOR Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens’ Energy Committee, who all lied to that committee- but because Stevens REFUSED to have them sworn-in got away with a felony. The New York Times now tells us of Mr. Raymond’s reward for GOUGING the American people:
“Mr. Raymond, who retired in December, was compensated more than $686 million from 1993 to 2005, according to an analysis done for The New York Times by Brian Foley, an independent compensation consultant. That is $144,573 for each day he spent leading Exxon’s “God pod,” as the executive suite at the company’s headquarters in Irving, Tex., is known.”
-NYT-
…the rats are beginning to ride off into the sunset with their ill-gotten gains…
…and the dumb a*s American people bicker about immigration and same-sex marriage, and fret about Bushiva’s scary boogeyman- “a nucular (sic) Iran”…
…What a criminal country/government!
…What a sh*t-for- brains electorate!
April 15th, 2006 at 9:57 amYep! Right again Big Papa……Blessings
April 15th, 2006 at 10:52 am[...] $1.9 million – the amount of Dick Cheney’s tax return [...]
April 15th, 2006 at 4:01 pmFirst off stop all of your whining. I beleive WE all should get as much of our money out of the govt.. You all rail against Bush and his govt but you want to FINANCE it by letting them take your tax dollar. Join the under ground market. Work off the books. Pay only Cash. Never run up credit debit. Why let the govt get one little PENNY of your money? I know how I want my money spent, by me. Why finance a war? Why finance a congress that spends money on programs that benefit only them. Do you think Cheney wants to fund the govt? I gotta go with him on this one
April 16th, 2006 at 9:07 am#25
Like it matters if they have our tax money to fund anything…they just keep ratcheting up the national debt to pay for anything they want.
April 17th, 2006 at 10:16 amNewsflash: Cheney’s donates millions to charity; Liberals outraged.
From the article:
They had already paid taxes on money that was donated to charity. Hence, those taxes were returned.
No good deed goes unpunished.
April 20th, 2006 at 9:29 am[...] Our beloved Vice President just can’t catch a break from these folks. This time it’s about his $1.9 million tax refund. [...]
April 20th, 2006 at 9:36 am