According to President Obama, tax evasion is a crime morally equivalent to terrorism and child pornography.
At least, that’s what he seemed to imply when speaking at the South by Southwest festival this week. Instead of paying his last respects to former First Lady Nancy Reagan, he decided that being seen at the popular technology convention was more important.
His smug pleasure at being invited to speak almost certainly turned to disdain when he was questioned about the government’s ongoing attempts to crack the encryption on the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone in spite of Apple’s refusal to sanction it’s efforts.
Prefacing his comments with the disclosure that he cannot officially weigh in on the case, Obama proceeded to do almost exactly that, chiding observers with “absolutist view[s]” for not agreeing that the government should have some sort of backdoor into electronic devices.
Doubling down on his remarks, Obama insinuated that the lack of iPhone backdoors will keep law enforcement from apprehending terrorist plotters, child pornographers, and worst of all… people who don’t pay their taxes!
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Hmm how about your buddy Al Sharpton?
Tax cheats? You mean like Al Sharpton, Tom Daschle, Timothy Geithner, Al Franken, Charlie Rangel, etc. Democrats just want MY tax dollars for wasteful spending…apparently, not their money. Obama, you won’t even do anything with democrat tax cheaters, so why worry about it?
We already have the irs and treasury depts going after people obama hates sure don’t need to give him more power to spy on us
Tax evasion over tax invasion. Same thing
And he should know he has old Al Sharpton at the White House all the time that hasn’t paid his taxes.
LOL! Obama is so full of BS! It’s starting to back up on him! LOL!
And yet his best friend , tax cheat , Al Sharpton is given a pass . Smell anything there ?
He should know since he and his friends use every loophole.
The IRS has given Obama our tax records and let Mullins of social security numbers out so illegals can get our numbers and access to our bank accounts when great international banks takes over our US banks
What the hell difference does it make….when you have a proven tax evader..i.e. Al Sharpton…..you don’t do anything about it. Perhaps Al is excused because he is black?