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Vulnerable House Dem Penalized for Late Property Tax Payments. ( Pennsylvania - Cartwright )
Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 4, 2022 | Alana Goodman •

Posted on 08/05/2022 5:31:44 AM PDT by george76

Rep. Matthew Cartwright has a history of tax delinquency..

Rep. Matthew Cartwright (D., Pa.) was hit with tax penalties for late condo payments in 2021, just three years after facing media scrutiny for repeated tax delinquency.

Cartwright last year owed $436.63 in penalties and interest, stemming from the late property tax payments on his Washington, D.C., condo he shares with his wife, according to D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The news could be a problem for the congressman, who is locked in a competitive race against Republican challenger Jim Bognet. Cartwright on Tuesday declined to say if he supports a Democratic-backed inflation bill that is expected to raise taxes on middle-income earners, according to Fox News.

Cartwright did not respond to a request for comment from the Free Beacon.

Cartwright's late taxes have been fodder for political attacks in his past campaigns. In 2018, Cartwright's opponent ran an ad that slammed the congressman for supporting tax hikes "while refusing to pay taxes on his luxury Washington condo."

At the time, Cartwright defended his years of late payments as an "oversight." He had racked up $3,700 in penalties and interest related to delinquencies between 2013 and 2018, according to the Associated Press.

Cartwright in 2015 received a notice from the city threatening to put the condo up for sale if the delinquency wasn't resolved, the AP reported.

"This is a very busy job that I have and I'm working really hard at it," Cartwright told the news outlet, noting that he eventually paid the taxes and penalties in each of these cases.

Cartwright's race is one of two tossup House elections in Pennsylvania this year, which could determine party control in the lower chamber.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Pennsylvania; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; cartwright; delinquency; pennsylvania; propertytax; tax; taxes

1 posted on 08/05/2022 5:31:44 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

“Im too busy to pay my taxes”.


2 posted on 08/05/2022 5:35:33 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Col Frank Slade

“I’m too busy trying to raise your taxes to pay my taxes” :)


3 posted on 08/05/2022 5:37:20 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: george76

“This is a very busy job that I have and I’m working really hard at it,” Cartwright told the news outlet...

He’s so busy, he doesn’t have 5 minutes to pay his bills. Typical rat excuse. Laws don’t apply to rats.

It’s only if someone in the media is bold enough to shine a light on them that they then scurry to comply with some lame excuse as to why they didn’t pay their taxes. Taxes which rats are all to willing to raise on the rest of us.


4 posted on 08/05/2022 5:38:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: george76
PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE!

5 posted on 08/05/2022 5:39:13 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: george76

“Taxes are what little people pay.”


6 posted on 08/05/2022 5:45:15 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: george76
"This is a very busy job that I have and I'm working really hard at it," Cartwright told the news outlet, noting that he eventually paid the taxes and penalties in each of these cases.

"Do you have any idea how f_ing busy I am?" - Kim Jong-Il

7 posted on 08/05/2022 5:46:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

FedEx commercial featuring Scott, the newly “overwhelmed” worker who has had his job made useless thanks to FedEx shipping. https://youtu.be/uWM5EYI65wo


8 posted on 08/05/2022 5:50:14 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Eccl 10:2

-——Taxes are what little people pay-—

No, not so at all.

The democrats insist, by law, that the little people never pay their fair share. Those designated “little People” are parasitic on American society.


9 posted on 08/05/2022 5:50:37 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: 1Old Pro

I remember that one.


10 posted on 08/05/2022 5:52:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

House Dems Owed D.C. - Thousands in Unpaid Property Taxes, Records Show At least six Dem members penalized by D.C. for failure to pay..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3956841/posts


11 posted on 08/05/2022 6:07:31 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: sappy

Brilliant!!


12 posted on 08/05/2022 6:29:27 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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Oh no, say it ain’t so…a rat subject to the law…shocking…


13 posted on 08/05/2022 7:03:53 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: george76

Dems love taxes, until they have to pay them. Just like they love illegal immigrants until a busload of them show up in a Dem neighborhood.


14 posted on 08/05/2022 7:13:54 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (;)
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