Rick Perry Lies About Bill White not paying taxes in 1995

[sonias]

Politifact Check 9/21/10
Rick Perry says Bill White didn't pay taxes while working for feds in 1995

Republican Gov. Rick Perry hasn't seen Democratic challenger Bill White's 1995 tax return. Even so, he says White didn't pay taxes that year.

"Bill White hiding his taxes because he didn't pay them," says the headline on a Sept. 7 news release from Perry's campaign. That's followed by this header: "Liberal trial lawyer didn't pay taxes while earning $133,600 annual salary as deputy (U.S.) secretary of energy."

Perry's press release did not say what kind of taxes he meant, though we suspect most observers would conclude that he is referring to White not paying federal income taxes that year. Perry said as much as we wrapped up our research on this topic, telling San Antonio's KTSA-550 AM last week that White "didn't pay any income tax in 1995." We believe that dramatic charge is impossible to independently prove or disprove without access to the relevant White tax return.


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White said he got income taxes back after filing his tax return. Why? His business losses later that year largely offset the income taxes he had already paid through withholding, he said, leaving him with no taxable income in 1995.

Is that the same as White paying no taxes that year while he did his federal job, as Perry says? We think not.

We rate the statement False.

Perry opens his mouth once again and lies just shoot out from it! Like lava erupting from a volcano.

With apologies to the people who designed the G.W. Bush Pants on Fire Doll. I think it's time Rick Perry got his own, Pants on Fire version.



:puke:

[white cloud]

1. Kool Pictures

LOL,

Sad thing is we are left with a burned down mansion and a burned out budget.

Perry is leaving us with more COMING:
TOLL ROADS
21BILLION DEFECIT
10 CENT GAS TAX
STATE INCOME TAX
DEGRADED INFASTRUCURE AND ED SYSTEM
ETC

TO MAKE UP FOR HIS FISCAL FAILURE

[sonias]

2. True

He and bushie both were failures. bushie left this country in ruins and Perry is did the same to Texas.

And we're left to clean up all the mess. :(

[efhmc]

3. A liar's lie. What's new?

[sonias]

4. Well I hope that we'll have a new Governor come November

I'm hoping the people of Texas tell Rick Perry to hit the road and move out of the $10,000/month mansion he's living in, on our dime.

:hi:efhmc

[CoolOnion]

5. I thought Republicans don't like taxes

Shouldn't they appreciate somebody taking advantage of business losses to not pay taxes? I'm getting whiplash keeping up with GOP flip-flopping.

[sonias]

6. They don't want republicans to pay taxes

They want the Democrats to pay all the taxes, and fight all the wars they start. They just want to sit back and exploit other people to their benefit. Slave owner mentality.

:shrug: