Left wing comedian hates tax cuts and loopholes for the rich...except for himself.....

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Yes.....the left wing, one percenters are a funny bunch...just not when they are actually trying to be funny on t.v. No, they are funny when they bitch and bitch and bitch about the unfair tax system and how the rich get richer and how horrible that is........while they cash check after check after check.....and then hide their money from the IRS........just like this doofus....

The John Oliver Property Tax Scam: HBO Comedian Secretly Buys Manhattan Mansion

So it’s a little surprising to discover that just months before, Oliver had a tax attorney set up two revocable trusts, one for him and one for his wife, to hide the couple’s purchase of a $9.5 million Manhattan penthouse. Then he used a tax loophole created by Donald Trump himself back in the 1970s, when the current president was merely a prominent New York real estate developer and aspiring celebrity author.

The loophole in question is the banally named “421-a” tax dodge, which was recently attacked in a Daily News op-ed written by two New York state Democrats, one a senator and the other an assemblyman. They said that the original 421-a tax exemption was “designed to encourage new development in locations that were vacant or underutilized,” but that Trump wanted to use it in 1980 when he bought Bonwit Teller in midtown Manhattan. The plan was to tear it down and build Trump Tower, which would mix office space and luxury condos.

“Told by Mayor Ed Koch that the Bonwit site could not qualify for a 421-a tax break, Trump and his lawyer — the infamous Roy Cohn — sued the city,” the News op-ed recalls. “In the end, they won a tax exemption worth $50 million for the extravagant Trump Tower. More importantly, Trump’s lawsuit established that all new development, even luxury projects, would be automatically eligible for the 421-a exemption.”

The article said that the 421-a provision, which expired last year in a political impasse but that Albany is considering revising, will rob state coffers of $1.3 billion of revenue “this year alone in foregone property taxes.”

But just four months before Oliver’s July show, he had hired slick New York law firm Proskauer Rose LLP, which, in addition to union-busting and representing BP America, ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil, specializes in helping the rich find tax breaks and buy real estate. Proskauer also has a long-time Private Client Servicesgroup, whose “lawyers handle complex tax and estate planning matters for wealthy multinational families,” as well as “executives, Internet entrepreneurs, art collectors and investors, professionals and real estate developers, among others,” according to its website.

Oliver’s lawyer at the firm was Jay Waxenberg, who “focuses his practice on estate and tax planning and estate and trust administration.” Waxenberg, the website goes on, “represents many families with significant multigenerational wealth, and has assisted them in the structuring of their estate plans so as to minimize gift, estate and generation-skipping taxes in the transmission of their wealth through several generations.”

In other words, Waxenberg is exactly the type of fancy pants attorney who helps his 1 percent clientele get the tax breaks and use the loopholes that Oliver gets such mileage deriding on TV.

In Oliver’s case, Waxenberg set up two revocable trusts — JO, named for John Oliver, and KNO, named for his wife Kate Norley Oliver — with Waxenberg as the trustee and his law firm serving as the trusts’ registered address. The trusts were then used to create a shell company called Hoagie’s Place LLC, named for Oliver’s beloved dog. Incidentally, Kate Norley Oliver’s New York voter registration shows she is a Democrat and lives in the penthouse in question.
 
John Oliver's going to make a lot of money thanks to the ongoing Trump disaster


I am sure he will give it all away to help provide healthcare for the less fortunate....
Maybe. At least he won't be actively working to strip healthcare away from the less fortunate like you and your fellow rubes are doing.
 
John Oliver's going to make a lot of money thanks to the ongoing Trump disaster


I am sure he will give it all away to help provide healthcare for the less fortunate....
Maybe. At least he won't be actively working to strip healthcare away from the less fortunate like you and your fellow rubes are doing.


No...that is what obamacare did.....premiums people can't afford and deductibles so high that people can't use it.......that is what obama did.....with intent....and the Republcans are stuck trying to fix healthcare....since 80% of Americans were happy with their healthcare before obama wrecked it.
 
Yes.....the left wing, one percenters are a funny bunch...just not when they are actually trying to be funny on t.v. No, they are funny when they bitch and bitch and bitch about the unfair tax system and how the rich get richer and how horrible that is........while they cash check after check after check.....and then hide their money from the IRS........just like this doofus....

The John Oliver Property Tax Scam: HBO Comedian Secretly Buys Manhattan Mansion

So it’s a little surprising to discover that just months before, Oliver had a tax attorney set up two revocable trusts, one for him and one for his wife, to hide the couple’s purchase of a $9.5 million Manhattan penthouse. Then he used a tax loophole created by Donald Trump himself back in the 1970s, when the current president was merely a prominent New York real estate developer and aspiring celebrity author.

The loophole in question is the banally named “421-a” tax dodge, which was recently attacked in a Daily News op-ed written by two New York state Democrats, one a senator and the other an assemblyman. They said that the original 421-a tax exemption was “designed to encourage new development in locations that were vacant or underutilized,” but that Trump wanted to use it in 1980 when he bought Bonwit Teller in midtown Manhattan. The plan was to tear it down and build Trump Tower, which would mix office space and luxury condos.

“Told by Mayor Ed Koch that the Bonwit site could not qualify for a 421-a tax break, Trump and his lawyer — the infamous Roy Cohn — sued the city,” the News op-ed recalls. “In the end, they won a tax exemption worth $50 million for the extravagant Trump Tower. More importantly, Trump’s lawsuit established that all new development, even luxury projects, would be automatically eligible for the 421-a exemption.”

The article said that the 421-a provision, which expired last year in a political impasse but that Albany is considering revising, will rob state coffers of $1.3 billion of revenue “this year alone in foregone property taxes.”

But just four months before Oliver’s July show, he had hired slick New York law firm Proskauer Rose LLP, which, in addition to union-busting and representing BP America, ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil, specializes in helping the rich find tax breaks and buy real estate. Proskauer also has a long-time Private Client Servicesgroup, whose “lawyers handle complex tax and estate planning matters for wealthy multinational families,” as well as “executives, Internet entrepreneurs, art collectors and investors, professionals and real estate developers, among others,” according to its website.

Oliver’s lawyer at the firm was Jay Waxenberg, who “focuses his practice on estate and tax planning and estate and trust administration.” Waxenberg, the website goes on, “represents many families with significant multigenerational wealth, and has assisted them in the structuring of their estate plans so as to minimize gift, estate and generation-skipping taxes in the transmission of their wealth through several generations.”

In other words, Waxenberg is exactly the type of fancy pants attorney who helps his 1 percent clientele get the tax breaks and use the loopholes that Oliver gets such mileage deriding on TV.

In Oliver’s case, Waxenberg set up two revocable trusts — JO, named for John Oliver, and KNO, named for his wife Kate Norley Oliver — with Waxenberg as the trustee and his law firm serving as the trusts’ registered address. The trusts were then used to create a shell company called Hoagie’s Place LLC, named for Oliver’s beloved dog. Incidentally, Kate Norley Oliver’s New York voter registration shows she is a Democrat and lives in the penthouse in question.
I get it. Only Republicans can take advantage of tax cuts & loopholes.
 
All they have as far as subject matter is bash Trump, bash Trump, bash Trump. Same with the left wing fake news media. It appears they didn't get the memo last Novemeber 8 that their lies and propaganda are no longer effective.
 
Yes.....the left wing, one percenters are a funny bunch...just not when they are actually trying to be funny on t.v. No, they are funny when they bitch and bitch and bitch about the unfair tax system and how the rich get richer and how horrible that is........while they cash check after check after check.....and then hide their money from the IRS........just like this doofus....

The John Oliver Property Tax Scam: HBO Comedian Secretly Buys Manhattan Mansion

So it’s a little surprising to discover that just months before, Oliver had a tax attorney set up two revocable trusts, one for him and one for his wife, to hide the couple’s purchase of a $9.5 million Manhattan penthouse. Then he used a tax loophole created by Donald Trump himself back in the 1970s, when the current president was merely a prominent New York real estate developer and aspiring celebrity author.

The loophole in question is the banally named “421-a” tax dodge, which was recently attacked in a Daily News op-ed written by two New York state Democrats, one a senator and the other an assemblyman. They said that the original 421-a tax exemption was “designed to encourage new development in locations that were vacant or underutilized,” but that Trump wanted to use it in 1980 when he bought Bonwit Teller in midtown Manhattan. The plan was to tear it down and build Trump Tower, which would mix office space and luxury condos.

“Told by Mayor Ed Koch that the Bonwit site could not qualify for a 421-a tax break, Trump and his lawyer — the infamous Roy Cohn — sued the city,” the News op-ed recalls. “In the end, they won a tax exemption worth $50 million for the extravagant Trump Tower. More importantly, Trump’s lawsuit established that all new development, even luxury projects, would be automatically eligible for the 421-a exemption.”

The article said that the 421-a provision, which expired last year in a political impasse but that Albany is considering revising, will rob state coffers of $1.3 billion of revenue “this year alone in foregone property taxes.”

But just four months before Oliver’s July show, he had hired slick New York law firm Proskauer Rose LLP, which, in addition to union-busting and representing BP America, ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil, specializes in helping the rich find tax breaks and buy real estate. Proskauer also has a long-time Private Client Servicesgroup, whose “lawyers handle complex tax and estate planning matters for wealthy multinational families,” as well as “executives, Internet entrepreneurs, art collectors and investors, professionals and real estate developers, among others,” according to its website.

Oliver’s lawyer at the firm was Jay Waxenberg, who “focuses his practice on estate and tax planning and estate and trust administration.” Waxenberg, the website goes on, “represents many families with significant multigenerational wealth, and has assisted them in the structuring of their estate plans so as to minimize gift, estate and generation-skipping taxes in the transmission of their wealth through several generations.”

In other words, Waxenberg is exactly the type of fancy pants attorney who helps his 1 percent clientele get the tax breaks and use the loopholes that Oliver gets such mileage deriding on TV.

In Oliver’s case, Waxenberg set up two revocable trusts — JO, named for John Oliver, and KNO, named for his wife Kate Norley Oliver — with Waxenberg as the trustee and his law firm serving as the trusts’ registered address. The trusts were then used to create a shell company called Hoagie’s Place LLC, named for Oliver’s beloved dog. Incidentally, Kate Norley Oliver’s New York voter registration shows she is a Democrat and lives in the penthouse in question.
I get it. Only Republicans can take advantage of tax cuts & loopholes.


No shit head.......only left wingers yell for increasing taxes on the rich and how evil the rich are for not paying taxes...and then they themselves, who are 1 percenters, and extremely wealthy...hide their money from the very taxes they bitched about raising higher....

moron.
 
John Oliver's going to make a lot of money thanks to the ongoing Trump disaster


I am sure he will give it all away to help provide healthcare for the less fortunate....
Maybe. At least he won't be actively working to strip healthcare away from the less fortunate like you and your fellow rubes are doing.

lol. Aetna Insurance company just kissed Obamacare good bye. UH already bailed. Trump doesn't have to do one thing, but sit back and watch the obombination self destruct. But luckily, the less fortunate rubes can count on Trump to make sure they get the care they need.
 
John Oliver's going to make a lot of money thanks to the ongoing Trump disaster


I am sure he will give it all away to help provide healthcare for the less fortunate....
Maybe. At least he won't be actively working to strip healthcare away from the less fortunate like you and your fellow rubes are doing.


No...that is what obamacare did.....premiums people can't afford and deductibles so high that people can't use it.......that is what obama did.....with intent....and the Republcans are stuck trying to fix healthcare....since 80% of Americans were happy with their healthcare before obama wrecked it.

Premiums people can't afford?

Really?

Again, you lie about this. Over & over & Over you keep lying about this. Just how fucking stupid can you get?

There are plans on the exchanges with low deductibles.

If you buy insurance as an individual,. I guarantee you that your premiums for equivalent coverage were cheaper in the exchanges.

I thought your Republicans had a plan. A great plan. A fantasgtic plan. They had 7 years since trhe ACA passed (and 22 years since they blocked Hillarycare) & all they came up with is the stupid ACHA.

Why don't they just repeal the ACA & put it back to where it was. Certainly they can do that? Right? Why haven't they?
 
John Oliver's going to make a lot of money thanks to the ongoing Trump disaster


I am sure he will give it all away to help provide healthcare for the less fortunate....
Maybe. At least he won't be actively working to strip healthcare away from the less fortunate like you and your fellow rubes are doing.

lol. Aetna Insurance company just kissed Obamacare good bye. UH already bailed. Trump doesn't have to do one thing, but sit back and watch the obombination self destruct. But luckily, the less fortunate rubes can count on Trump to make sure they get the care they need.
The CBO said you were full of shit.
 
John Oliver's going to make a lot of money thanks to the ongoing Trump disaster


I am sure he will give it all away to help provide healthcare for the less fortunate....
Maybe. At least he won't be actively working to strip healthcare away from the less fortunate like you and your fellow rubes are doing.

lol. Aetna Insurance company just kissed Obamacare good bye. UH already bailed. Trump doesn't have to do one thing, but sit back and watch the obombination self destruct. But luckily, the less fortunate rubes can count on Trump to make sure they get the care they need.
Yes because republicans completely sabotaged the ACA and have cornered themselves into needing to pass something terrible. Maybe you rubes will wise up and fund the risk corridors again, and expand Medicaid. But I doubt it. Too much money to be made by screwing people, after all.
 
OMG OMG OMG OMG a Democrat took advantage of a tax break OMG OMG OMG OMG.
 
Firstly, you only have to look at Jay Leno as an example. Worth $350 million. Doesn't work. Collects cars and things you and I could never even look at. The others are in the same boat.

As for health care, it's time for universal care. Paid for by income taxes paid by everyone but the truly needy. Definition of "needy" needs to be established. Even the 1% needs to pay the tax. There support helps the needy. Universal care is coming. It going to be opposed by everyone at first but eventually will see the need.
 
Firstly, you only have to look at Jay Leno as an example. Worth $350 million. Doesn't work. Collects cars and things you and I could never even look at. The others are in the same boat.

As for health care, it's time for universal care. Paid for by income taxes paid by everyone but the truly needy. Definition of "needy" needs to be established. Even the 1% needs to pay the tax. There support helps the needy. Universal care is coming. It going to be opposed by everyone at first but eventually will see the need.
And that's the myth the left keeps perpetuating. Truth is if you collect ALL the income the so called 1% or even 5% of this country makes, it won't be even close to enough to what the left wants to do with our money.
 
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John Oliver's going to make a lot of money thanks to the ongoing Trump disaster


I am sure he will give it all away to help provide healthcare for the less fortunate....
Maybe. At least he won't be actively working to strip healthcare away from the less fortunate like you and your fellow rubes are doing.

lol. Aetna Insurance company just kissed Obamacare good bye. UH already bailed. Trump doesn't have to do one thing, but sit back and watch the obombination self destruct. But luckily, the less fortunate rubes can count on Trump to make sure they get the care they need.
Yes because republicans completely sabotaged the ACA and have cornered themselves into needing to pass something terrible. Maybe you rubes will wise up and fund the risk corridors again, and expand Medicaid. But I doubt it. Too much money to be made by screwing people, after all.


The republicans didn' do anything to obamacare...it was designed to fail, but they thought hilary would be in office so they could simply pass single payer...that didn't work out....

Medicaid is not the answer....it can't be sustained.
 
Firstly, you only have to look at Jay Leno as an example. Worth $350 million. Doesn't work. Collects cars and things you and I could never even look at. The others are in the same boat.

As for health care, it's time for universal care. Paid for by income taxes paid by everyone but the truly needy. Definition of "needy" needs to be established. Even the 1% needs to pay the tax. There support helps the needy. Universal care is coming. It going to be opposed by everyone at first but eventually will see the need.


And the rich will get medical care, and the poor will not......the social welfare states are crashing their healthcare systems......single payer does not work......
 
OMG OMG OMG OMG a Democrat took advantage of a tax break OMG OMG OMG OMG.


Yep....after bitching about the rich not paying their fair share, and stealing from the poor...this 1 percenter didn't pay his fair share and cheated the poor out of their healthcare......
 
OMG OMG OMG OMG a Democrat took advantage of a tax break OMG OMG OMG OMG.


Jon oliver qualifies for my jimmy kimmel tax rate.......

--he is a left wing hypocrite

--he makes 2 million dollars a year

--his net worth is 5 million dollars...

the Jimmy Kimmel tax takes all of his yearly salary except for 250,000 dollars a year....pretty good for reading someone else's jokes......and takes all of his net worth except for 250,000 dollars.....

Now that would be fair...since he bitches about the rich paying their fair share......the jimmy kimmel tax would make sure he pays his fair share....
 

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