Shocker: Big-Government Liberal Al Franken Apparently Doesn’t Like To Pay His Taxes
And it may cost him his run against incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman.
Al Franken’s career as an entertainer made him famous and rich and positioned him to run for the U.S. Senate. But now, just as he appears on the verge of securing the DFL endorsement to take on Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, Franken could be tripped up by missteps in the way his show business enterprise was run. ...
On Friday, Franken’s campaign manager, Andy Barr, declined to say whether Franken had paid taxes on earnings in California between 2003 and 2007. He said Franken’s accountant is working with California officials to sort things out.
The latest Republican charge that Franken’s taxes there have gone unpaid comes in the wake of earlier disclosures that Franken failed to pay workers’ compensation and disability premiums in New York and botched the dissolution of his California corporation. Since then, Franken has paid more than $25,000 in fines to New York and still owes more than $4,700 in corporate taxes and fines to California.
A basic truth about American politics is that most conservatives want to help themselves and their fellow citizens with their own money. This is why conservatives eschew big government, and tend to give more individually to charities. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to want to fund their altruism with taxpayer dollars. Or other people’s money, to be blunt.
Franken takes that position to the extreme. Not only does he, as a big government liberal, want to use other people’s money to fund all the good deeds he has planned for America he doesn’t even want to pay his fair share of the taxes.
What a train wreck Franken’s life is becoming. After some level of success on Saturday Night Live he had a disappointing career as an actor. Then he flopped as a talk radio host on a liberal radio network that was a flop in general. Now his glorious foray into politics is likely to go down in a flaming heap of unpaid taxes and screwed-over employees.
Franken should do himself a favor and just quietly fade out of public life altogether.
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