Friday, April 14, 2017

The Search Is Over

We have found the most arrogant and ill-informed member of Congress.

A Republican congressman said at a town hall that it was “bullcrap” that his constituents paid his salary, because he had paid enough federal taxes to have effectively paid his own way.

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) made that claim, and a similar one about effectively paying for his own health care, in two town hall events, recordings of which were later posted online.

“You said you pay for me to do this,” he said in one recorded exchange, posted online Monday. “Bull crap, I paid for myself. I paid enough taxes before I ever got here and continue to through my company to pay my own salary. This is a service. No one here pays me to do it. I do it as an honor and a service.”

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The congressman’s communications director, Amy Lawrence, has not responded to TPM’s request to confirm that Mullin actually refuses a congressional salary, or otherwise pays it back in some way.

Lawrence said in a statement to the Tulsa World that “the congressman is referencing the federal taxes that he and his businesses have paid to the government over the years, prior to his being in office. Like all business owners, Congressman Mullin pays his taxes, which contribute to congressional salaries.”

Someone needs to teach this little pipsqueak about how the tax system works, and preferably how collecting unemployment works, too.

2 barks and woofs on “The Search Is Over

  1. AMEN to Faithful Correspondent!
    “Pipsqueak’?? Now, Bobby, don’t be so polite & nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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