In the past year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, the price of peanut butter is skyrocketing along with other groceries, forced up by Bidenflation policies Barnes supports. Here Barnes, alluding to apparently desperate financial struggles that forced him to choose between food and paying taxes owed on one of his two homes, casts peanut butter as the food of the destitute as he makes a sandwich out of brand name Jif, not a less expensive generic. However the criticism Barnes faces is not for a current delinquency, but for a repeated pattern of delinquency in paying any share of his own taxes while at the same time supporting and campaigning for tax hikes because other people don’t pay “their fair share.” But there were times I was getting by on peanut butter sandwiches Barnes has paid back his repeatedly delinquent taxes and the fines that accumulated over the lengthy periods he refused to pay. Let’s be clear, my taxes are paid in fullīarnes is on safer ground with this statement, although even this is misdirection. The same article notes campaign donors were paying an average of $1,200 a month for his expenses, and taxpayers were picking up the tab for his health insurance. On the issue of not filing income taxes in 2018, his campaign indicated that he wasn’t required to file because he was unemployed while campaigning for lieutenant governor and living frugally.He left that December tax bill unpaid for months, claiming he didn’t owe it, while he took a trip to Las Vegas. He owed a portion of the 2017 taxes on the home he purchased – for cash – in October 2017.His 2019 property taxes on one of his homes were also delinquent, and he offers no explanation for that.In March of 2019, owning two homes, Barnes got courtside seats at a Bucks game while his property taxes went unpaid.It’s difficult to give credence to his claim that he was eating peanut butter sandwiches because he couldn’t afford to pay the tax bill due in January 2019, since he was gainfully employed as lieutenant governor, and in February of 2019 he purchased a second home using a portion of his savings to finance a $30,000 down payment.Barnes claimed to Journal Sentine l in June 2019 that he was paying his taxes in installments, but the Milwaukee Treasurer’s office said Barnes had not entered into an installment agreement, had made no installment payments, and was delinquent.It’s a problematic explanation, since the Bidenflation he is blaming for being unable to pay his bills didn’t exist in the years he was delinquent on his property taxes while sitting on a healthy savings account. In the Democratic primary debate when asked about how high levels of inflation impacted him personally, he immediately referenced his tax delinquencies, mentioning with a laugh ‘stories about financial struggles he faced’ that everyone had heard, suggesting that the current inflation was the cause for him not paying his taxes.In another video he admits he “was late paying bills” but then he follows that up with a false claim that it was because he was “working for a non-partisan organization.” That story doesn’t work with the timeline since Barnes that job more than a year before his 2018 property taxes came due.In a June 19 i nterview with a TV reporter, he claimed most people are similarly delinquent on property taxes and that his “check was in the mail.” Two days before that, June 17, Barnes tweeted “The check is in the mail.” The city finally received payment on June 26th, which strongly suggests his check was not, in fact, in the mail.He received multiple bills after that, citing his delinquency. His 2018 property taxes were due at the end of January 2019.He did not file an income tax return in 2018īarnes, on video and in print, has made various, sometimes clearly false claims about his failure to pay:.The Milwaukee Treasurer’s office confirmed he was also delinquent paying what he owed for 2017 property taxes.Barnes was delinquent on both his 20 property taxes, on one of his 2 homes.Public documents and multiple news stories – and Barnes’s own statements – have revealed Barnes’ repeated property tax delinquencies, and failure to file an income tax return one year: Today we fact check the ad Mandela Barnes calls “Crumbs.” Ron Johnson’s at it again, lying about my taxes One ad caught our eye recently because in a sea of ads that are marked – often defined – by untruths and misrepresentations, it was notable for how many of them were packed into 30 seconds. The airwaves are flooded with campaign ads, and we’ve got to persevere through them for another month. Barnes pleads poverty in an ad claiming he lived on peanut butter and couldn’t afford to pay his taxes The facts tell a different story of a candidate so flush with cash he paid cash for one house and still had enough to make a big down payment on a second home after a year of willful unemployment.
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