Posted on 08/11/2015 5:02:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Valerie Jarrett, a top adviser to President Obama, purportedly saved $200,000 on a Chicago real estate deal by taking advantage of a tax loophole she openly opposes and actively worked to eliminate, according to a watchdog investigation.
The investigation, conducted by the Chicago-based Better Government Association (BGA), focused on the 2013 sale of a $160 million luxury high-rise in which Jarrett pocketed more than $1 million in profits.
Jarrett served as an executive at a Chicago real estate development firm called the Habitat Company prior to joining the White House as a senior adviser to Obama in 2009. While there, Jarrett helped develop a 46-story apartment complex called Kingsbury Plaza that was owned under the name of Grand Kingsbury LLC. …
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I’m with you——what she did was legal.
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Did I say anything about the law per se? No. But you seem hell-bent on defending the hypocrisy of leftists who are just fine with taking advantage of what they claim to oppose.
Nobody said it wasn’t legal. That’s not the point.
Again, you use the word hypocrisy. It isn’t hypocrisy to follow the law as written.
If she fought against the law, the law was changed, and she proceeded to behave as if the law were not changed, then that would be hypocrisy.
Your complaint with her is that she followed the law.
I have a lot of issues with Valerie Jarrett, but following the law is not one of them.
Leftists believe nothing of what they say
I think this is an example of “crying wolf” that makes so many people tune out legitimate complaints and scandals.
So Jarrett is no wolf?
I think this “scandal” is no wolf. And when you point out nonsense like this enough, people ignore other things you have to say.
So you also would not think it hypocritical for gun-control-supporting (anti-Second Amendment) politicians to buy guns and/or other ballistic weaponry, as well. I see.
The principle is (or is supposed to be) that one ought not do themselves what they attempt to proscribe others not to do. But you focus on the letter of the law rather than the spirit.
Yes, Pelosi, who is for Unions, but employs non-union workers at their businesses.
Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones.
- attributed to Anacharsis
It’s current law and allowable - stupid not to take advantage of it even while trying to plug it up.
Like I said to someone else, it’s like a gun grabber “tak(ing) advantage of it while trying to plug it up”—utter hypocrisy. If it be good for thee, ’tis good for all.
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