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i guess if he had acted reasonably, paid his taxes and the fine, apologized, claimed extreme stress after the show and all that he might have walked.

but lying and behaving like an arrogant idiot simply doesn't help you at court.
so maybe he deserves 51 month.

but what i can't understand (and it's similar in europe) is that you get more time for tax fraud and perjury than for rape, assault, attempted murder, drug dealing and so on. seems the goverments value their tax income higher than the health of their citizens.
 
andiwm2003 said:
could you visit him and ask him why he was so stupid? i mean there must be a reason....
Yes, national face -- gets 1 million dollars, tens of thousands more in income from rentals and appearance fees.

Reports income of $41,087 asking for $4,800 refund for that year.

He didn't fail to pay, he tried to hide the income.

Leaving it $1.4 million short, even most idiots know you can't get away with that.
 
zap2 said:
Stupid people trying to cheat are holy and wonderful goverment out of money that they need to kill people to get oil.. come on guys the USA government is broke look at the 9 trillion debt! We need all the $$$ to take over other countrys!:rolleyes:

9 trillion dollars is INSANE! :eek: I wish in the different world that we OWN OPEC so we'll never have to worry about expensive taxes and debts. Our money will go to education and medicare which will help USA a lot better. So I bet we will still pay $.12 cent a gallon (like in Venezuela)! What do you think? That'd be nice. So everyone in USA won't be poor and everyone will have highend mac :):rolleyes:

EDIT: And charge higher for other countries esp. China, Iran, Iraq, Russia and all bad countries!! MUAHAHAHAHHAHHAH!!!!!
 
supremedesigner said:
9 trillion dollars is INSANE! :eek: I wish in the different world that we OWN OPEC so we'll never have to worry about expensive taxes and debts. Our money will go to education and medicare which will help USA a lot better. So I bet we will still pay $.12 cent a gallon (like in Venezuela)! What do you think? That'd be nice. So everyone in USA won't be poor and everyone will have highend mac :):rolleyes:

EDIT: And charge higher for other countries esp. China, Iran, Iraq, Russia and all bad countries!! MUAHAHAHAHHAHHAH!!!!!
You scare me. :(
 
supremedesigner said:
9 trillion dollars is INSANE! :eek: I wish in the different world that we OWN OPEC so we'll never have to worry about expensive taxes and debts. Our money will go to education and medicare which will help USA a lot better. So I bet we will still pay $.12 cent a gallon (like in Venezuela)! What do you think? That'd be nice. So everyone in USA won't be poor and everyone will have highend mac :):rolleyes:

EDIT: And charge higher for other countries esp. China, Iran, Iraq, Russia and all bad countries!! MUAHAHAHAHHAHHAH!!!!!

You and George Bush seem to agree about owning OPEC. Personally, I'd rather see us stop grabbing what belongs to everyone else and for us, expecially our government, to start living within our incomes.


Crikey
 
he will be out of there in no time. i like the sentence, trying to pull a fast one, and lying in court to keep the story going are 2 different things. The latter shows the criminal intent imho. But he will be out in no time.

David, you don't need to list a $50 gift, it is not taxable. Gifts are not taxable up into the thousands, but winnings and earnings are different.
 
Even though he did lie and break the law and didn't pay taxes when all of us have to, that's still extremely unreasonably harsh. There's people out there like mcarnes said, who rape, murder, steal, let all hell loose, and break a crapload of laws, and they don't get as much hard time as Hatch will.
 
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