{"id":1446518,"date":"2022-04-19T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1446518"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:01:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:01:04","slug":"wisconsin-dem-cited-for-taxes-delinquency-lectures-billionaires-to-spend-your-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-cited-for-taxes-delinquency-lectures-billionaires-to-spend-your-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Dem Cited for Taxes Delinquency Lectures Billionaires To \u2018Spend Your Taxes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-dem-cited-for-taxes-delinquency-lectures-billionaires-to-spend-your-taxes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1446518&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate who lectured billionaires on Monday to &#8220;pay your taxes&#8221; has a history of tax delinquency.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, the frontrunner in the Democratic Senate primary, failed to pay his property taxes or file tax returns while running for office in 2018\u2014and defended himself at the time by claiming that &#8220;most people&#8221; don\u2019t fully pay their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Milwaukee cited Barnes for delinquent tax bills in 2019, and he owed $2,225 in property taxes on his condo, Milwaukee\u2019s Fox-6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox6now.com\/news\/lt-gov-mandela-barnes-walks-out-on-interview-after-unpaid-property-tax-question\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>But Barnes seemed uncharacteristically concerned about tax punctuality when he took a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/1516242908260753412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">swipe<\/a>\u00a0at the super-rich in a social media post on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear Billionaires: Pay your taxes,&#8221; Barnes wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes\u2019s history of delinquency could gain new scrutiny as taxes become an issue in the Wisconsin Senate race. Democrats have been running campaign ads against Republican senator Ron Johnson, accusing him of benefiting from a tax break provision he helped pass.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2AlMXNTklxc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stormed away<\/a>\u00a0from a Fox-6 journalist in 2019 who asked about the unpaid tax bills, saying he didn\u2019t want to discuss it because it was &#8220;Juneteenth&#8221; and the &#8220;check is in the mail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t even know how that became a story,&#8221; Barnes told the reporter. &#8220;Most people I know actually have a balance, and the check is in the mail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is\u2014this is Juneteenth,&#8221; Barnes added before he fled the scene. &#8220;This is Juneteenth, and they want to talk about property taxes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes also paid no state or federal income tax in 2018 and failed to file a tax return while running for lieutenant governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2021\/09\/17\/mandela-barnes-filed-no-tax-returns-badgercare-during-2018-run\/8341615002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>. Barnes\u2019s campaign said he was unemployed and earned below the filing requirement threshold. He claimed he used savings and family funds to purchase two condos that year, while also using the state\u2019s Medicaid program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate who lectured billionaires on Monday to &#8220;pay your taxes&#8221; has a history of tax delinquency. Lt. Gov. 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