Anti-Tax Tea Party Co-Founder: Owed IRS Half A Million Dollars

Chattahbox ^ | October 9, 2009

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

In another blow to the false narrative advanced by Tea Party operatives and Fox News that the movement is a “grassroots” uprising of ordinary Americans. A co-founder of the national anti-tax Tea Party Patriots movement, failed to disclose during her numerous media interviews and TV appearances that she and her husband filed for bankruptcy and owed the IRS half a million dollars.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I don't know where this chattahbox website came from, but they are clearly a far far left organization. But I do think that there's another way to look at this:

Jenny Beth Martin isn't tax evading. She doesn't have tax woes.

She took the initiative in receiving a pre-emptive stimulus.

That has to be what it is. I mean........... Tim Geithner? HELLO!!

[Grunthor]

“Anti-Tax Tea Party Co-Founder: Owed IRS Half A Million Dollars”

Look for the White House to try and hired him any day now!

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Jenny Martin on the left hand side.

[a fool in paradise]

The Obama administration has tax cheats in charge of collect taxes.

What’s the point of this hit piece?

Was the tea party all about one person? Who didn’t want to pay taxes, and was outraged over paying more?

Or was it just that “they didn’t pay their fair share”? Like Obama administration members.

[dfwgator]

Well, wouldn’t they be hypocrites if they didn’t owe the IRS?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I’m trying to figure out where they deceived anyone. They said they had financial problems and she said she was getting paid by the GOP afters years as a volunteer. Where’s the deception???

[Berlin_Freeper]

The IRS will tax you half a million dollars even when you are bankrupt.

[pnh102]

LOL. Considering all the tax cheats working in the administration I don’t think these guys are one to talk.

[gimme1ibertee]

she and her husband filed for bankruptcy and owed the IRS half a million dollars.

And so it begins. It's not working,calling us all nutcases given to violent outbursts,so now they're going to give the key players in the TeaPer movement the Joe-the-Plumber treatment.
Bastards.Hope it backfires on them big,big time.

[garyhope]

I can only hope that’s Jenny Martin on the left hand side. I’d hate to be married to Jenny if she was the guy on the right.

[Bahbah]

Wow, the Martins had some financial difficulties in their lives so they are no longer allowed to have an opinion on things and can no longer speak out or be part of any group.

Makes perfect sense.

[DTogo]

What does their tax/financial status have to do with anything?

[gura]

To be honest, it was only $1k, but after ten days with interest and penalties it became $500k.

[Domandred]

Important paragraph if you follow the links

Martin said that Lee's temp firm, which once employed 5000 people, had failed over two years ago, because of problems with a partner. Lee Martin, she said, was then faced with a choice between paying between paying the blue-collar employees who had earned their wages and were living paycheck-to-paycheck, or paying the IRS. He chose the former. "I know my husband owes that money," she said. "Had he paid the IRS [it would have] prevented those employees from getting paid."

Sounds valid to me. IRS can piss off far as I'm concerned.

[gimme1ibertee]

Her’s a little background on the publisher of Chattahbox:
http://fsw.ucalgary.ca/faculty_staff/trute

[sportutegrl]

Find the hypocrite: 1. a tax and spend democrat who doesn’t pay his taxes or 2. an anti tax protester who doesn’t pay taxes, also known as civil disobedience.

[montag813]

Wow, the Martins had some financial difficulties in their lives so they are no longer allowed to have an opinion on things and can no longer speak out or be part of any group.

Yep. Might as well execute them. Of course the parasites flooding that gov't building in Detroit are model Americans.

[NH Liberty]

How is this “a blow to the false narrative” of the Tea Parties?

The only way that would be true is if they found out these people were really Marxists, who were secretly paying hundreds of thousands in EXTRA taxes.

[xcamel]

whackanoodle with letters..from canada even.

STFU, canadian libtard.

[Tzimisce]

...well the White House needs to hire this person.