Singer Lauryn Hill Blames Slavery For Not Paying Her Taxes
 

It never ends does it?

http://hiphopwired.com/2013/05/08/la...es-on-slavery/

“I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them,” the New Jersey native told U.S. Magistrate Madeline Cox Arleo.“I had an economic system imposed on me. Someone did the math, and it came to around $600 million. And I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt?”

she dumb

They exist on both sides; people that want to blame the other side for their troubles. I was a little shocked back when I was younger when I found out how big of a whitey hater she was, but obviously she hasn't changed.

JFC.


Kill her

well .....

when keeping it real goes wrong.

YESSSSS ANOTHER CP RACE THREAD

CAN'T WAIT

LMAO

Exactly.

She was never rich enough for tax evasion. Kinda arrogant of her to think that she was.

Where does the 600 million come from? Is that what she owes or is that a reparations credit?
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She got more money than me.

"Hill made a last-minute $900,000 payment to IRS one day ahead of Monday's (May 6) court date, but her failure to cover interest and penalties resulted in a three-month prison sentence."

In her defense. ...she is bat shit crazy lol

She comes from an upper middle class home too..it's always those types who end up beimg radicals in life.

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True.

Yup. Has some nice rap too.

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Still a stupid thing to say.

Her and Kanye....writing checks their talent can't cash.

AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR THAT!

Talented artist, but damn, she's ****ed up. Didn't she basically turn into a hermit after her first album?

I bought Lauryn Hill's tape so her kids could starve

LMAO ROFL LMAO

This is why stereotypes will never die. Ridiculous.

couldn't agree more, SR.

so even after all my logic and my theory, I add a "motha****a" so the ignorant *people hear me.

Miseducated.

She should use it for other things.
"I'm a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had a speed limit imposed on me. Someone did the math and it came out that I was going 70 in a 55. And I sit before you trying to figure out how to pay a speeding ticket?"

Being a victim is a much easier way to live. Then one has no responsibilities, bares no accountability as everything is the fault of nefarious forces gathered against them.

Great way to go through life.

She sucks so I am not surprised after watch those couple of songs that got posted that her music sucks as well.

C*nt

How she feed her family while paying taxes?

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I love how everybody is acting like she's a hardened criminal.

But the really wealthy have evaded taxes for a long time. The wealthy don't pay taxes, period. But since foxnews tells you that it is good for 'Murica for the rich to not pay taxes, you believe it and shrug it off.

I don't think it's the assumption that she's a hardened criminal. But if you are going to sit here and enjoy the fruits the of American dream by making millions, pay your taxes.

I think they're mostly just acting like she should pay her bill.

ninjas gonna ninja

lolz wut?

what a load of shit, that she would play the Race Card to get out of paying taxes...just because the bitch is broke, and she hasn't had a hit since 2001...get over yourself bitch

The rich don't pay taxes in this country and everybody thinks thats ok.

A person like Lauren Hill doesn't pay her taxes, stupid as it may be, everybody acts like shes a criminal.

makes sense.

I'm not defending her. But the irony is funny.

Ha ha you know you are in the wrong on a race issue when even THATGUY thinks you are crazy.

wtf?

they pay, even though some have either figured out how to get around the system or pay people to look the other way

in much the same way, some poor have figured out how to get around the system and not pay taxes

ya the poor here do have it better than the poor in other countries. That's for sure. But people in the middle.............................................................................................. ...................................................****ed.

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Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that nobody on here supports anyone skipping out on their taxes. How is it ironic? Everyone that skips out on their taxes is a criminal, just some have learned how to take advantage of a porous and corrupt system.

am I missing something here how do rich people not pay taxes

So, this has to do with Lauryn Hill somehow.

You know, FOX news or something. Big corporations etc. And therefore: Lauryn Hill.

Actually, the rich pay a higher percentage of the taxes every year. While the poor, typically get more back then they pay in. Which is absolutely crazy to me.

very nice eminem reference. well played.

ROFL ROFL ROFL

Most would not have known or cared about her not paying taxes had it not been for her publicly making numerous statements as to why she shouldn't have to each time her excuses become more and more ridiculous. The fact she has resorted to using the slavery card is pathetic. Everyone should have to pay their fair share of taxes and the fact that many rich have found a way around it is true, but they are private about it, even when caught. They don't make it public like she is.

I don't think that's it at all.

The reason the rich get richer is because they use tax loop holes and strategy to avoid paying taxes. They hire tax attorneys to investigate this shit. It's all legal.

Lauryn Hill just said **** it I ain't paying. Or she didn't an accountant that was smart enough to figure this shit out.

Same thing happened to Willie Nelson and Mike Tyson.

The problem I have with her statement is that she's playing the race card whenever convenient.

There are two types of people.

Those who plan and those who fail to plan.

She's reactive not proactive.

PREFACE: I do not agree with Lauryn Hill's reparations excuse for not paying taxes, HOWEVER...

I think the average (white) citizens of our society sometimes lack perspective when it comes to the history of African Americans in our country.

1787: the Constitution of the United States is drafted. The 3/5 Compromise declares that black slaves are considered 3/5 of a person to help bolster voting bloc in southern US.

1870: 15th amendment passes giving blacks citizenship/right to vote.

*This means that less than 150 (only 5 generations ago) years ago blacks WERE NOT EVEN CONSIDERED PEOPLE BY OUR CONSTITUTION (they were 3/5 of a person - which is insanely dehumanizing, dudes).

1880s - 1960s: Much of the United States is hell-bent on keeping blacks out of mainstream society. Jim Crow laws are adopted, Plessy v Ferguson (separate but equal) rules, Ku Klux Klan forms up, etc.

WE ARE ONLY TWO GENERATIONS REMOVED THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (many of us were raised by parents who were raised in a systematically [and socially accepted] racist world).

If you don't believe that blacks have been systematically disadvantaged throughout the VAST majority of our nation's history then you do not know your history.

It takes time to overcome all of those things. Racism is still alive and well in our country (as has been repeatedly proven on this board). We have come a long way as a society, but there are still a lot of demons from our nation's past that need to be exorcised.

Yeah, there were slaves. Yeah, that sucked. Yeah, there are racists. Yeah, that sucks.

What does this have to do with Lauren Hill not paying taxes?

Seize her house and ship her back to her homeland. Seems like the only fair thing to do.

It doesn't have that much to do with it, I guess...

I just wanted to halt the ChiefsPlanetBigotTrain before it really started to pick up steam again..

The tax burden in this country is overwhelmingly supported by the richest 10%. It's not even a close question as that 10% provides about 70% of our tax income. Hell, the top 1% alone covers a little over 1/3 of America's revenue stream. And that's actually a greater percentage than they paid 20 years ago.

Meanwhile, approximately 47% of America's lowest income earners don't pay taxes at all.

You may think that the rich should have to pay a greater share of their income - fine, whatever. But the bottom line is that the rich essentially subsidize 2/3 of this government. The middle class handles about 30% of it and 1/2 the country doesn't do jack shit to carry their burden.

Ignorance like yours is why we can't have a serious discussion about anything in this country.

Never heard of her.

by her logic....this is PERFECTLY logical.
sad.

How old is she or how old are her parents? I think she isn't being honest.

hey man....

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this has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
I doubt very much you've said anything here that we don't all know. white people know about slavery too. your post just doesn't have anything to do with Lauren Hill being a total ****ing reerun trying to use slavery as a reason. what a stupid stupid stupid bitch.

i don't think she should be going to jail for 3 months for interest


That said ... she's an annoying bitch who probably told everyone involved to **** off until the last minute. Enjoy prison.

The top 5% controls nearly 72% of the money, so 2/3 of the taxes seems like a pretty decent deal.

I'm not sure what the point is with this argument.

ROFL

Well, yeah. That's because they are rich.

Eh, it's not even an argument really.

Like I said, there are arguments to be made that the rich should pay more. I don't necessarily agree with them, but they certainly exist.

But the idea that they simply don't pay is asinine. On a volume basis, it's the wealthiest earners in this country that fund the government.

ROFL

Somebody needs to tell her that even Obama pays his taxes...

Bump has some rather interesting ideas about the way our country works.

If "interesting" = "crazy", then agreed.

If there was any way I could control where my tax dollars went, I'd allocate them all towards keeping weed illegal just to piss him off.

LMAO

Bullshit.

I agree.

She should've pleaded insanity the defense would have been more credible.

cool .jpeg, bro.

No, it's because earning money generally takes resources and investment and a bit of risk. Rich people can afford to take the kinds of risks that normal and poor folk can not. Once a successful venture occurs, even more money is generated to invest in more money making ventures. It feeds itself. The rich get richer because of resources and good decisions (or luck). They can avoid some tax burden through loopholes or immoral behavior, but that isn't the prime generator of money.

ya and screw over the millions of people who it could help and keeping the innocent behind bars so that a few can profit.


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