But Family Bike Business Hasn’t Paid Taxes In Three Decades



Trek

Ah, hypocrisy, don’t you love it when it comes back to bite the libs in the ass?

Quote:The family bicycle business of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke has not paid state income taxes for more than three decades.

Burke’s father co-founded Trek Bicycle in 1976, out of a “red pole barn” in Waterloo, Wis. The company grew to become the largest bike manufacturer in the United States, and has been pivotal to Mary Burke’s case in her effort to oust Gov. Scott Walker (R.).

Burke mentions her role at Trek in nearly every campaign appearance. As head of Strategic Planning for Trek, Burke focused “every single day on improving the company’s bottom line,” according to her campaign website.

Trek, which claims its bicycles can “combat climate change,” has sales of roughly $900 million. However, according to records from the Wisconsin Department of Revenue obtained by Fox 6 in Milwaukee, Trek Bicycle has not paid net income taxes since at least 1982.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/wisconsin...e-decades/

"Fair share" in my book is proportional to how much someone uses government services.

Why when a liberal says fair share it means the top pays all taxes and the bottom pays none?

Wouldn't fair share be having everyone pay the same percentage? And how can fair share ever be not paying anything? Am I being too logical in this thinking?

(05-09-2014 09:09 PM)blah Wrote:  Why when a liberal says fair share it means the top pays all taxes and the bottom pays none?

Wouldn't fair share be having everyone pay the same percentage? And how can fair share ever be not paying anything? Am I being too logical in this thinking?

You are using common sense logic. However, as you know, the "fair share crowd" says "fair share", but what they really want is "let me choose who I confiscate money from and pick winners and losers when doling out the cash". Of course, after they have extracted their cut.