Just Like a Bush
So, it turns out that George P. Bush, son of a Bush and newly elected Texas Land Commissioner, has been trained well in the ways of the Bush.
The Houston Chronicle broke the story this morning.
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has spent nearly $1 million in taxpayer money to entice dozens of people fired by his administration to agree not to sue him or the agency, a practice that may run afoul of a ban on severance pay for state workers.
He kept people on the payroll for up to five months after they were fired in exchange for firing them without cause. They were from the previous Land Commissioner’s term, a fellow Republican.
Such separation arrangements are made frequently in the corporate world but are not allowed in Texas government, where there is no severance and staffers generally are required to work to be paid, according to employment lawyers, union leaders and former state officials.
Well, Honey, add this to Attorney General Ken Paxton granting “emergency leave” paid packages to about half his office, and the Tea Party Republicans have a hard time claiming that they like small government when half the damn state is drawing a salary sitting at home.
If this ain’t welfare, I don’t know what is.
Thanks to Bubba for the heads up.
It sure sux, when the people sitting at home with pay & benefits are a better bargain than those going to the office like Paxton and George Pee.
1snacilbupeR don’t want to pay taxes, but once taxes are in the kitty, hey, it’s money to be thrown around and to benefit their cronies. They just don’t want any of that money to come from them.
2These Texass ‘Pukes are pikers on ripping off we taxpayers compared to the Dodgy Drumph. Y’all have heard why he’s so reluctant to make public his tax returns, eh?
He doesn’t pay anything, zip, zero, zilch, nada, wouldn’t be surprised to find out the US gubmint actually pays him subsidies; a welfare queen?
Like with many corporations, what they do not pay, we the peons do pay (especially that almost half the budget for defense spending). Patriotic ‘Murikkans my azz.
‘I’ll make ‘Murikkka Great Again, y’all will pay for it (paying taxes is for “the little people” suckers)’.
3Donnie Dollars Trump paraphrased…
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Hmmmm … sounds so familiar … anyone remember Leona Helmsley? I think ole Leona and Drumpf came from the same cesspool!! Lucky for ole Leona, I think she died some years ago … too bad, Drumpf is still wasting oxygen!!
4http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/la_times_examines_trumps_corporate_welfare.php
Drumpf IS korporate welfare.
5Marcia in CO,
6‘Zactly why I used “quotes”, glad you got the ref (wasn’t sure of the whole quote, but it still sticks in my craw). They’re both ‘upper crust’ New Yawkers, so might even be kin, eh? (upper crust on a real putrid pie)
Trumpf can be summed up by three words: “NYC RE Developer”, which covers a lot of unscrupulous behavior and outright chicanery.
Remember: “You knew I was a snake when you picked me up” isn’t really a joke.
7e platypus onion,
8I think publicly-held corporate taxes are public record (don’t know if all the hundreds of Trump corps are public or not).
But his personal tax forms are the pertinent ones being hidden, while almost all other presidential candidates have (sometimes very reluctantly, like rMoney) disgorged their IRS returns for public view (it just comes with the territory).
Drumph has stated he won’t until after the election because they are being IRS audited (surprise surprise), however, even Tricky Dick Nixon revealed his while under audit.
Soooo, let’s see ’em, Donnie Dollars.
Sandridge, I suspect most of Mr. Trump’s companies are either S Corps or Partnerships, neither of which are generally publicly held, so they aren’t required to file a Form 10-K with the SEC. that said (and I noted this on another site), my guess is that most of those companies are reporting losses, which flow through to the individual owners, along with “separately stated items”, resulting in zero taxable income for the Trumps, not even Alternative Minimum Tax.
to get to the actual meat of Mr. Trump’s activities and the income(losses) associated with them, would require audits of the companies themselves, his 1040’s will only show his K-1 amounts. these are his pro-rata shares of each company’s results for its taxable year. personally, I’d love to be the CPA doing those audits, they would be entertaining, if nothing else.
Full Disclosure: I am a CPA in VA, and I spend my days in the incredibly exciting world of federal tax law. ok, I lied, it isn’t all that exciting.
9Like I keep sayin’, Republicans are perfectly willing to waste taxpayer money on things that don’t benefit the taxpayers–just the politicians and their buddies.
Rob the poor and give handouts to the rich.
10Whodathunkit? Welfare queens hidin’ out in the AG’s office in the Land Commissar’s office, right here in Texass.
11How many Child Protective Service caseworkers could be hired and trained for all the “bonus and emergency” money being paid to people not to work in state gov’ment?
12Another case of a GOP/TP politician trying to run government like a business. George P. Bush did this because he could and because he was spending OPM, Other People’s Money. Now, watch nothing be done about this because he’s a Bush.
13This is fraud and corruption, nothing more.
And nothing less. If the US Justice Department hasn’t already opened a file on the Texas GOP, they will soon.
14He is a Bush, and wouldn’t know how to run a business if they gave him o e. His Uncle Shrub proved that in every way he tried before stealing an election. From a long line of grifters, proving only that grifters gotta grift.
15It’s really very simple. It is very, very wrong for Dems to spend taxpayer money, but when Repubs do it it is oh so right.
16Damn straight its welfare just like when Trump claims in writing on a legal document that he paid zero taxes. That only means that other much, much, much less wealthy people like you and mean have to pick up the tab in order to keep things going like for instance the firefighters in our national forests and parks, etc. etc.
17@cpinva,
18Urk. You’re a CPA, you get it easily. We need to get a bumpersticker simple slogan about Trump’s gaming the tax system to reach the average ‘zen.
No matter how wrong the IRS codes are for allowing all this kind of financial chicanery, not much can be done short or mid-term.
But electing someone who has so blatantly avoided carrying his SHARE of the manifold expense of just running the USA American effen government, while claiming to be a superyuuge Patriot, is beyond obscene. They need to be called on it, loudly and frequently.
“No it’s hush money. I should know.” Denny
19Sure it’s welfare.
But if you’re conservative, that’s OK, because you’re entitled. You’re above law and morality. So welfare is OK.
So’s philandering, teen pregnancy, divorce, drug use, pornography subscriptions and all that other “social dysfunction” stuff that’s so much higher in the red states than the blue ones.
Hell, we all know that Alabama and Mississippi, those bastions of evangelical conservatism, set the moral standards for the rest of us, don’t they?
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