Sarah Palin's tax questions

There's been a lot of speculation about how to report irregularities in Sarah Palin's tax returns. There are two ways of doing it. The Whistleblowers scheme may lead to a cash award for the person reporting. The other way is to report fraud without claiming an award, as outlined below:

How Do You Report Suspected Tax Fraud Activity?

If you suspect or know of an individual or company that is not complying with the tax laws, you may report this activity by completing Form 3949-A. You may fill out Form 3949-A online, print it and mail it to:

Internal Revenue Service
Fresno, CA 93888

If you do not wish to use Form 3949-A, you may send a letter to the address above. Please include the following information, if available:

*Name and address of the person you are reporting
*The taxpayer identification number (social security number for an individual)
*A brief description of the alleged violation, including how you became aware of or obtained the information
*The years involved
*The estimated dollar amount of any unreported income
*Your name, address and daytime telephone number

Address for the IRS in Anchorage:

US Internal Revenue Services
949 E 36th Ave # 114
Anchorage, AK 99508-4361
(907) 271-6877

The Palins tax return for 2007 can be found here.
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Sarah Palin's opacity (oops, transparency?)

Gov. Sarah Palin is telling the Alaska Public Offices Commission she doesn’t want to disclose the discount her husband, Todd, receives on purchases of Arctic Cat snowmachines.

According to the terms of his sponsorship agreement, the exact amount of the discount is confidential as a proprietary trade secret,” the governor wrote to APOC officials on Monday.

APOC may buy this BS, but would the IRS be so lenient?


Sarah Palin is truly transparent, her administration is shrouded in it.

Celtic Diva was sent a jargon-ridden letter about how long their incompetent, stone age IT people take to retrieve e-mails when somebody requests information under FOIA and how the costs to requesters escalate accordingly.

People have to pay through the nose for their incompetence and there's a very high probability of paying thousands of dollars for blank, redacted pages.

Sarah Palin's administration play the "transparency" game really well. They deserve a trophy...
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Sarah Palin, divide and (not) conquer

C4P are all ablaze with their webathon to retire Sarah Palin's legal debts. They're asking for e-mails from all the people who donated before the event so they can add their donations to the total. How would they show the webathon was a success if they're jumbling all the figures together? The final figure might be whatever it was BEFORE and the webathon won't mean anything, it could amount to some loose change, for all we know.

Much ado about nothing...

But what's really exciting is the feud between the two major Sarah Palin fan clubs!

Comments at C4P:

"Not a fan of the way TS is handling this. Sorry. I simply do not understand why they would not be enthusiastic about working with C4P or any other group with common goals on a project like this."

"Team Sarah is all about promoting Team Sarah, religious and conspiracy kooks! They do more harm to Sarah than good!"

"Hmm, TS took dwn my post containing the webathon email address. I think they want to help but are feeling territorial about it. They point out they would rather it be called the "sarah palin" webathon. As if it's called the C4P webathon now? Anyway."

"Yes. I am NOT one bit surprised. There have been thousands of us, who are extreme Sarah supporters, who have left Team Sarah because they are about Team Sarah MUCH more than they are about supporting her. I, and many others who would support Sarah to our deaths, have been ban from TS more times than I can count on both hands. That said - If I though for one minute Sarah supported even 1/2 the crap that's posted there I'd drop her in a NY minute!"

Over at Team Sarah:

Team Sarah is J E A L O U S

"I'm surprise you guys on TS do not have the web-a-thon C4P initiative on your home(front) page. We should be all in this together. If one Sarah group has a good initiative, lets all join together and promote it. Me think this way we can all make a united collective progress which the bottom line is to promote Sarah Palin and the views she represent. But your nonchalance towards the initiative has lead me to think TS is jealous. Consider?"

"I just talked to the Team Sarah staff and they said they will put it on the front page today."

So I visited the front page of Team Sarah a minute ago. Nothing about the C4P webathon, only this:

Appeal from The Alaska Fund Trust We received an email last night from the trustee for the Alaska Fund Trust asking for our help as they seek to retire the legal fees debt accrued as a result of all those frivilous lawsuits.

The direct link to the fund is here: http://www.thealaskafundtrust.com/donate/. We will be supporting them directly with our own banner and etc. (posted by their big cheese, Bill Collier)

I'm coming to the conclusion that Sarah Palin is not only divisive herself, as seen in the campaign, but that EVERYTHING connected to her ends in divisiveness.

Even her most ardent supporters are divided. Very soon they will be calling each other "haters"!

The C4Pee who called Team Sarah religious kooks has a point. This is a post from a member of TS:

"I am going to reveal a "God moment" I had on November 8, 2008.I was on my knees, praying for Sarah...the Media was destroying every aspect of her humanity: her career, her reputation, her family, her life. I was overwhelmed and physically shaken by the vast and devastating breadth of the Media's hatred for Sarah...the fact that the rich and powerful in the Republican Party turned their backs on one of their own...oh, Team Sarah you will never know how mad, frustrated and disgusted I was.

So...as I prayed, I asked God what do I do? Besides praying for Sarah...what can I do? She'd given so much from her Servant's heart...she'd fought so hard...she'd stayed so brave...and I felt so powerless to help someone that I had begun to think of as a friend. At that moment, I felt physically compelled to open my Bible...and folks...this is the scripture that my eyes fell upon:

May those who rejoice at my troubles be humiliated and disgraced.

May those who triumph over me be covered with shame and dishonor. But give great joy to those who had stood with me in my defense. Let them continually say, "Great is the Lord, who enjoys helping his servant."

Then I will tell everyone of your justice and goodness, and I will praise you all day long!

At that moment I was energized with hope and joy! I knew God wanted me to fight in Sarah's defense...I knew he wanted me to slip on my combat boots and dig in for a long, hellish fight. Folks...this battle is just beginning...but, oh, I do feel joy. I DO FEEL JOY...even in the midst of all the Lettermans and the Keith Olbermanns and the Arriana Huffingtons and the "anonymous sources" of the world....I do feel great joy standing in Sarah's defense!"

Be afraid, be very afraid!

(Team Sarah material via "The Messenger")
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Sarah Palin, safety seats and the usual hypocrisy...

In a statement to Thomas Van Flein during the Troopergate fiasco, Todd Palin suggested there was bad blood between the governor and Monegan over a couple of matters. This was one of them:

• An inquiry from Monegan to the governor about whether she once failed to put her Trig, her infant, in a car seat while she was driving.

On the car seat, Monegan sent an e-mail to the governor on June 30, 12 days before he lost his job, that said: "Via a soon-to-be-retiring legislator, we received a complaint that had you driving with Trig not in an approved car seat; if this is so that would be awkward in many ways."

The governor fired back from her private e-mail account: "I've never driven Trig anywhere without a new, approved car seat. I want to know who said otherwise -- pls provide me that info now." (please note the menacing, demanding tone)

Todd Palin, in his sworn statement, said this was a "false rumor," and that the governor was a passenger in a truck, "on a private farm road without traffic at low speed." (with Trig on her lap)

Sarah Palin's twit today:

I join Auto Dealers today for kids' safety seat law/promo. NOTHING more important than safety of our babies: Life's most precious ingredient
24 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

Yeah, right! Sarah Palin can't even hold Trig safely...

Funny article making fun of the Dude.
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Sarah Palin's frightening supporters

I tried to embed a video of the "Fire Letterman" protest in New York, but it appears to have a technical glitch and it won't play. I gathered a few comments the only time I managed to watch it:

One protester said Letterman has a daughter born out of wedlock. No, he has only one son. Another called Letterman's son a bastard and his wife a slut. Someone said Willow was at a basketball game. One only watches Fox News. The most vocal among the 15 strong crowd said all borders should be closed. They seem to be uninformed and seriously disturbed. (I left the video embed in, but I don't know if it will play.)



The first I heard about Letterman's joke was through the comments on C4P. Of course it all started with the "slutty flight attendant" remark. Rudy Giuliani went on the Eddie Burke show, talked about the game, the remark, but didn't mention Willow at all. Sarah Palin went on the John Ziegler program, talked about the slutty remark and didn't mention Willow or "that" joke either.





Meanwhile, at C4P, they were working themselves into a frenzy, both on the blog and via Twitter. They started talking about raping a 14 year old, etc. Then Sarah and Todd Palin issued their rape, perversion and pedophile statements against "good old David Letterman". After that, Sarah Palin went on national TV and the story had by then turned into the rape of her 14 year old daughter in the middle of the Yankee Stadium and so on and so forth.

As many people already pointed out, Todd committing incest with his daughters is OK, because not only there were no protests against the joke or the guy who told it during the campaign, but Sarah Palin saw fit to appear on the same show a few weeks later.



What has changed since then? Sarah Palin thought she could plow through the doors of the White House. Incest and knocked-up jokes were just a minor distraction. There was no outrage, no self-esteem issues, no feminist crusade.

Another difference is C4P, where a few people believe Sarah Palin farts rainbows and constantly look for "haters" and conspiracies against the hot governor.

Some of their comments:

Sapwolf said..."When the Cuda calls off her wardogs via an acceptance of Letterman's apology, the Sapwolf stands down and heels as the obedient canine that he is."

"I suppose we can give thanks that through facing down Letterman on this issue, we really HAVE had victories and made important inroads among the leftwingers. For once, they DID "feel" how the Palin family did, and since liberals care most about "feelings," their hearts were moved, for once, in alignment with NORMAL people: with us and Sarah. Praise God!"

"I think we should expand this beyond Letterman. Every time Olbermann, Maher, Matthews, or any other media troll slams Sarah we should let their bosses and sponsors know that we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!"

They are bloggers with a difference. The media have used them as sources of hard news, as we have seen this past week, a practice condemned by Sarah Palin...
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