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Proof – Liberals Have No Idea How To Run a Business

https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/statuses/447057404568424448

Matt Drudge advertised the fact that he had to make his first NoBamaCare fine payment for not having insurance.  The left and lefty media went nuts.

Premise?  Tax /Fine /Fee not due to start until 2015, Drudge is lying for political points.  Reality.  Many if not most self-employed/business owners pay taxes quarterly for the next tax year.  The next tax year is 2014.  This is the first quarter of that tax year.  C. Edmund Wright at American Thinker gives you a few more details…

In case you missed it, Drudge tweeted, “Just paid the Obamacare penalty for not ‘getting covered’… I’M CALLING IT A LIBERTY TAX” shortly after filing his first quarterly installment for 2014 as a self-employed person. Apparently unaware of how self-employed people pay taxes – which is neither new nor a secret – liberals at the White House, Talking Points Memo, the Huffington Post, and the National Journal all responded immediately by calling Drudge either a liar or ignorant, or both.  After all, the liberal reasoning went, Drudge could not possibly have paid a cent toward his 2014 ObamaCare “penalty” because it’s not 2015 yet.

Yes, these wizards who would organize everything and everyone lack even a cursory familiarity with the most basic of tax realities.

What is it Bill Engvall says?  Oh yeah: “Here’s your sign.”  These liberals really didn’t need Engvall’s sign at all.  They tweeted their own “I’m stupid” signs.  Some wrote full-fledged low-information articles, including TPM’s Dylan Scott and the HuffPo’s Jeffrey Young.

In none of these attacks on Drudge did it occur to these media maestros how self-employed people are impacted by the tax ramifications of ObamaCare.  If Drudge figures he’ll owe, say, ten million in federal income taxes for 2014 (it’s probably a lot more), he is required to send in a quarter of that now.  He would also be compelled to include charming little IRS add-ons in his payment, like the ObamaCare penalty.  Or is it a fee?  A tax, maybe?  Whatever John Roberts decided to call it, Drudge and other self-employed quarterly filers have indeed started paying it.

I have not checked for local versions of the same kind of left-wing-stupid but I am sure they are out there.

Feel free to email me examples so we can share them.  There will be more than a few Kool Aid® drinkers who will rinse, lather, and repeat the ignorant musings of TPM and HuffPo.

Yup! Smartest people in  any room…only big enough for one.  And even then…maybe not.  That’s a liberal Democrat.

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