The distortion brigade goes gangsta on Beck
Jan 10th, 2010 by David Anderson
Glenn Beck’s Mercury has done a great job complying with 50 state’s tax laws and localities such a New York State, but it has not been without minor disputes. Enter a Democrat consultant who tries to make it look like Beck has his own tax problems like Daschle or Geithner. Since most people have no understanding of corporate tax law, they think that they can get away with blatant distortions. The Politico article in the link, while sympathetic to the administration actually gives a fair review to Beck. The real problem is that our tax code is so complicated that a corporation like Beck’s that grew beyond the 10 million threshold in a year and relocated, had to file different forms than when they started their planning at the beginning of the year. This is why it costs corporate America a quarter trillion just to comply with the tax laws and everyone still gets dinged. It is time we allow the money to be put into creating jobs and compensating employees and owners not complying with the lobbyist Frankenstein.
“Mercury immediately resolved these very common accounting issues,” said the source, who did not want to be identified discussing Mercury’s finances.
Dean Zerbe, national managing director for a company called alliantgroup that provides specialty tax services to accounting firms, said Beck’s situation “has the look and feel of somebody who is confronting an extraordinarily complicated tax situation — or at least the people he’s hired to do these things are — and is trying to comply but isn’t doing everything perfectly.”
Fox News generates more revenue from prime-time news broadcasts than the liberal ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN,MSNBC cabal combined. So when a buffoon like Ed Shultz laughs about Beck, or Fox in general, who cares? Nobody is watching.
Who’s Ed Shultz?
What’s MSNBC?
HAHA.