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Al Sharpton, Chris Matthews, Touré, Melissa Harris-Perry, all favor higher taxes but don't like paying their own

Lefty tax cheats abound at MSNBC



Heat Street reports that the wacky left-wing fake news network MSNBC employs a whole bunch of on-camera tax deadbeats. Talking heads on MSNBC routinely urge that the wealthy be forced to pay higher taxes.
The website found that "a total of six current, prominent MSNBC pundits have recently settled federal or state tax liens, while one still has tax problems. Moreover, at least two other hosts who recently left the network have also had massive tax liens filed against them." According to the site:
The Rev. Al Sharpton--MSNBC's Sunday morning host--easily comes in first place when it comes to "issues" with the taxman. He and his various entities--including several dissolved by New York for failure to pay taxes--currently owe about $1.5 million in state and federal taxes, interest and penalties, according to public records. It's a staggering sum, but down substantially from the $4.5 million in outstanding tax liens tallied by the New York Times two years ago. Sharpton has repeatedly said he's worked out agreements with authorities to settle his tax debt, and a source close to him says he's been paying it down aggressively, aware of how it may affect his legacy. The reverend has repeatedly called publicly for the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes.

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Daytime anchor Craig Melvin was hit last year with a tax lien for $2,500 by New York. He later paid up. South Carolina filed a tax warrant again Melvin in 2010 for $3,300. That debt was resolved. Discover Bank sued him in 2005 over a $3,200 debt. Maryland filed a tax lien against Chris Matthews and his wife last year over almost $4,000. Matthews later coughed up the dough. New York put in a tax lien against Joy-Ann Reid for close to $5,000. She paid up in 2015. According to Heat Street:
Both Matthews and Reid have repeatedly held forth about tax policy--including together, on the same TV segment. In 2012, for example, Matthews said that "the key element" of a political battle between John Boehner and Barack Obama was "that there be tax fairness--the people at the top, who now get a tax break of about 5 percent, should not get that anymore because they don't need it." "Right, absolutely," Reid replied. Later in the same interview, she mentioned how "it was very important to [Obama's] base that he gets those rates up on the top earners. That was what he promised." More recently, Reid said that taxation of the wealthy comes down to "a basic fairness argument."

Pontificating hypocrite Touré Neblett, and pseudointellectual whackjob Melissa Harris-Perry

Pontificating hypocrite Touré Neblett, who was canned by MSNBC in 2015, had two liens totaling more than $257,000 filed against him by the IRS for 2008 to 2012. It's unclear if he ever paid up. The IRS filed a tax lien against pseudointellectual whackjob Melissa Harris-Perry for about $70,000 in 2015. The next year Harris-Perry, who once wore tampon earrings on-air as some kind of political statement, paid up and left MSNBC.


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