Comments on: Ryberg Drops Tax Bombshell http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/ Politics, Sports and Pop Culture Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Silence Dogood http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52560 Silence Dogood Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:45:45 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52560 Can we investigate which legislators are adulterers? I bet it is more than 4 of the 170 over the past 9 years??? I mean hey, they write family law too, and if the Senator's or Representative's spouse can't trust them...can we? Are we looking down on people who owe some back taxes but are on a payment plan more than the one person in life they took a vow to be faithful to? Go get'em Sen. Greg. What a moron! Can we investigate which legislators are adulterers? I bet it is more than 4 of the 170 over the past 9 years???

I mean hey, they write family law too, and if the Senator’s or Representative’s spouse can’t trust them…can we? Are we looking down on people who owe some back taxes but are on a payment plan more than the one person in life they took a vow to be faithful to?

Go get’em Sen. Greg. What a moron!

]]> By: Silence Dogood http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52558 Silence Dogood Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:42:18 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52558 This is awesome! Let's elevate the Dept. of Revenue above all of the memebers of the executive and legislative branches. Bascially all that needs to happen is for the Dept. of Rev. to disgree between with you and your accountant or tax attorney and whoobang! Your out of office, if you win the case later, the Dept. of Rev. or the indivual filer made a scrivners error - to bad so sad so sorry. Over 1530 filings over nine years by on average very affluent people, they four that were deliquent and one who was already on a payment plan...was Ryberg trying to explain how good the General Assembly is compared to the average? Maybe Ryberg and other Senators should have been looking at laws to make the Dept. of Revenue better at enforcing the damn laws in first place rather than trying to use them to pinch potential political rivals with scurrilous accusations. This is awesome! Let’s elevate the Dept. of Revenue above all of the memebers of the executive and legislative branches. Bascially all that needs to happen is for the Dept. of Rev. to disgree between with you and your accountant or tax attorney and whoobang! Your out of office, if you win the case later, the Dept. of Rev. or the indivual filer made a scrivners error – to bad so sad so sorry. Over 1530 filings over nine years by on average very affluent people, they four that were deliquent and one who was already on a payment plan…was Ryberg trying to explain how good the General Assembly is compared to the average?

Maybe Ryberg and other Senators should have been looking at laws to make the Dept. of Revenue better at enforcing the damn laws in first place rather than trying to use them to pinch potential political rivals with scurrilous accusations.

]]> By: Don't F with me! http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52554 Don't F with me! Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:56:14 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52554 Ryberg is a wannabe something else than a Senator!! Who in their right mind would vote for him or T-Rav for spending millions for 100K/yr. State job?? Not someone I want looking after my tax dollars!!! Ryberg is a wannabe something else than a Senator!!

Who in their right mind would vote for him or T-Rav for spending millions for 100K/yr. State job??

Not someone I want looking after my tax dollars!!!

]]> By: John Barton http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52492 John Barton Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:10:12 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52492 All somebody needs to do now is to file a FOIA request with DOR--how can they refuse to release the details (names, etc) to the public when Ryberg got it and spread it all over the news? And everyone one of these legislators better get prosecuted, just like every other poor sap out there in SC who didn't file for whatever reason and got arrested and prosecuted. Or will DOR and the Attorney General make it official: the Legislature is above the law. All somebody needs to do now is to file a FOIA request with DOR–how can they refuse to release the details (names, etc) to the public when Ryberg got it and spread it all over the news? And everyone one of these legislators better get prosecuted, just like every other poor sap out there in SC who didn’t file for whatever reason and got arrested and prosecuted. Or will DOR and the Attorney General make it official: the Legislature is above the law.

]]> By: hammerheadSC http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52490 hammerheadSC Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:56:35 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52490 What? Someone doesn't like Will? come on thats not right! What? Someone doesn’t like Will? come on thats not right!

]]> By: To my thinking http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52483 To my thinking Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:11:14 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52483 Go, Fits! Please get the names. Transparency! Go, Fits! Please get the names. Transparency!

]]> By: fitsnews http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52482 fitsnews Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:57:22 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52482 Dear All, We are endeavoring to discover who the Reps are - and we will publish what we find out, absolutely. As for Ryberg, Sic Willie has already opened that particular can of whoopass on the good Senator ... circa 2006. Ryberg hasn't spoken to him since. -FITS Dear All,

We are endeavoring to discover who the Reps are – and we will publish what we find out, absolutely.

As for Ryberg, Sic Willie has already opened that particular can of whoopass on the good Senator … circa 2006.

Ryberg hasn’t spoken to him since.

-FITS

]]> By: Just Checking http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52481 Just Checking Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:53:34 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52481 I bet with the right digging around you could find the goods on this Wisconsin weasel. He bet up video poker for years...only after getting rid of his machines, and then proceeds to have high stakes gambling parties in Aiken, that are OK, because even though illegal, because he's well off. Also, he is the Senator that represents Aiken from Jan-Jun and Isle of Palms Jun-Dec I bet with the right digging around you could find the goods on this Wisconsin weasel. He bet up video poker for years…only after getting rid of his machines, and then proceeds to have high stakes gambling parties in Aiken, that are OK, because even though illegal, because he’s well off. Also, he is the Senator that represents Aiken from Jan-Jun and Isle of Palms Jun-Dec

]]> By: CNSYD http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52475 CNSYD Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:32:20 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52475 hammerheadSC, I can agree with your comments to a point. If he had filed a bill that required legislators to be paid up or they can't serve, then that is fine. To me it is when you start waving a "list" around with the express purpose of drawing attention to yourself that I have a problem with. IRT fair tax, I think ALL taxes ought to be sales or VAT with no exceptions. Then people can't escape them. hammerheadSC, I can agree with your comments to a point. If he had filed a bill that required legislators to be paid up or they can’t serve, then that is fine. To me it is when you start waving a “list” around with the express purpose of drawing attention to yourself that I have a problem with. IRT fair tax, I think ALL taxes ought to be sales or VAT with no exceptions. Then people can’t escape them.

]]> By: Marvin http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/04/21/ryberg-drops-tax-bombshell/#comment-52472 Marvin Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:23:27 +0000 http://www.fitsnews.com/?p=19167#comment-52472 Bottom line? Restructure government! SSHM, it might be one thing if a few recalcitrant legislators pulled a fast one and got away with something, but the question has to become whether they got away with it because of their positions. Chances are good that is the case. If DOR has this info, then why haven't they pursued it? Any private citizen would be screwed. This General Assembly has too much power, period. If they can ignore the law with regard to taxes, imagine what else they are doing. We have to trust that our elected officials are obeying the same laws as the rest of us. If not, then we should look at our checks and balances. Oh, right...we don't have any in South Carolina. Therefore, the legislature can do whatever it wants with impunity. SSHM, you are less a defender of a philosophy and more a defender of the system itself, i.e., the legislature. For which you clearly work. Defending a system because it pays you is not the same as defending ideas in which you believe. I would like to hear your philosophical logic for why politicians who ignore the tax law should not be exposed. I find that bizarre from anyone, regardless of party affiliation. Bottom line? Restructure government! SSHM, it might be one thing if a few recalcitrant legislators pulled a fast one and got away with something, but the question has to become whether they got away with it because of their positions. Chances are good that is the case. If DOR has this info, then why haven’t they pursued it? Any private citizen would be screwed.

This General Assembly has too much power, period. If they can ignore the law with regard to taxes, imagine what else they are doing. We have to trust that our elected officials are obeying the same laws as the rest of us. If not, then we should look at our checks and balances. Oh, right…we don’t have any in South Carolina. Therefore, the legislature can do whatever it wants with impunity.

SSHM, you are less a defender of a philosophy and more a defender of the system itself, i.e., the legislature. For which you clearly work. Defending a system because it pays you is not the same as defending ideas in which you believe. I would like to hear your philosophical logic for why politicians who ignore the tax law should not be exposed. I find that bizarre from anyone, regardless of party affiliation.

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