Basically she and husband didn't report all income and used campaign money for personal expenses.
Yes paying taxes is annoying, but these people earn solid money, why throw it away for relatively small savings. Say they saved 36% on a mil, spread over 6 years, Was it worth the extra $60K a year between the two of them when they had good jobs, political power, clean records?
Especially when you are union, thus generally pro gov't spending so are pushing everyone else to pay taxes.
"Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office alleges the pair under-reported more than $1 million in income over the past six years, including $176,000 in 2016, $416,000 in 2017, and $666,000 in 2018.
The complaint also alleges Hernandez unlawfully took political campaign money for personal use in 2014 and 2015."
> Especially when you are union, thus generally pro gov't spending so are pushing everyone else to pay taxes.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why would pro-union equal pro-government spending and also pro-higher taxes? They seem unrelated to each other.
I don't know much about unions but that particular union in CA represents a lot of government employees. In San Francisco every union leader I talked to was also very pro-government spending, like usually the way they see problems getting solved is by the government spending more money on them, but my sample may be biased.
Unions are a tool to contain and prevent abusive practices by companies in a free market.
As a result, most union members are going to be pretty anti capitalist in nature, or at the very least against unregulated capitalism. They would much rather have the abusive practices they protest against banned.
The alternatives to an unregulated free economy are either a state managed economy (communist style) or free-ish markets regulated by a government that sets the rules and limits the damages of the competition, by providing both regulations and safety nets (social democracy). both of those approaches require a strong state, which is were you get pro-government and pro-higher taxes.
I guess you could, theoretically, have unions that see themselves as the only necessary opposition against companies' power in a free market, and which see no need for legal protection for their own activities. It's a weird middle point though, and I certainly have never seen a person hold those beliefs.
Those figures are well over a million just for 3 of the six years. For example, just in 2018 they evaded about 300K in taxes. Top marginal income tax rate in CA is about 48% IIRC.
in california that number is closer to 50% than 36%, but yeah i agree that its probably not worth it though maybe they thought they were untouchable due to their position
I wonder how much of this was their direct action, and how much of it was them thinking they had plausible deniability because they were going through an intermediary like a CPA or financial planner or something. In the end it doesn't matter, they sign the forms, they own the decision.
Fun fact: Jimmy Hoffa remained president of the union even after being convicted and imprisoned. He only resigned as part of his commutation agreement with Nixon.
As someone who comes from Europe, I find the culture and corruption of American unions to be very puzzling. It seems to be the case from the very beginning of the American labor movement, and in the past the corruption seemed to have been at an even higher level. I'd love to see someone explain this. Why does the task of organizing workers promote corruption in the U.S. more than in Germany? And can anything be done to change this? Shedding this image would certainly help promote unionization.
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Yes paying taxes is annoying, but these people earn solid money, why throw it away for relatively small savings. Say they saved 36% on a mil, spread over 6 years, Was it worth the extra $60K a year between the two of them when they had good jobs, political power, clean records?
Especially when you are union, thus generally pro gov't spending so are pushing everyone else to pay taxes.
"Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office alleges the pair under-reported more than $1 million in income over the past six years, including $176,000 in 2016, $416,000 in 2017, and $666,000 in 2018.
The complaint also alleges Hernandez unlawfully took political campaign money for personal use in 2014 and 2015."
And they may not have reported the income because it didn't come from legitimate sources.
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Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why would pro-union equal pro-government spending and also pro-higher taxes? They seem unrelated to each other.
As a result, most union members are going to be pretty anti capitalist in nature, or at the very least against unregulated capitalism. They would much rather have the abusive practices they protest against banned.
The alternatives to an unregulated free economy are either a state managed economy (communist style) or free-ish markets regulated by a government that sets the rules and limits the damages of the competition, by providing both regulations and safety nets (social democracy). both of those approaches require a strong state, which is were you get pro-government and pro-higher taxes.
I guess you could, theoretically, have unions that see themselves as the only necessary opposition against companies' power in a free market, and which see no need for legal protection for their own activities. It's a weird middle point though, and I certainly have never seen a person hold those beliefs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Employees_Internatio...
Although it seems there was no organized mafia element to their fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa
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