GOP lawmaker says his colleague found an elaborate way to evade House mask fines

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Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) has changed his tax withholding so the House can't collect his mask fines, Clyde's colleague, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), squealed on Wednesday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) put in place a mask mandate in June 2020, saying they had to be worn when people were on the House floor. Those who refused to follow through first received a warning, then a $500 fine, and then a $2,500 fine for every additional offense.

CNN reports that Massie, who is suing Pelosi over the mask fine, decided to share how Clyde is getting out of his fines. Clyde owns a firearms business, and Massie said since fines are normally taken from a lawmakers' salary, Clyde "went to payroll and had his federal withholding raised to $11,284 a month. So he only gets $1 of pay." By doing this, the House can't garnish all of Clyde's wages — just the $1.

Massie said Clyde — who famously said footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol assault looked like "a normal tourist visit" — will "have to be elected until 3324 A.D. for Pelosi to collect $15,000 in fines. Then when he files his tax return, he gets all his money back." Clyde's office did not respond to CNN's request for comment, and the House Ethics Committee declined to comment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmaker-says-his-colleague-found-an-elaborate-way-to-evade-house-mask-fines/ar-AAMFLQR

[bluestarone]

1. Time to add INTEREST compound daily

[underpants]

2. Wow. You really got over on them huh?

[allnews]

3. What a lowlife

They are despicable people. They are evil people. I hope this can be prevented just on principle. To shut his ugly bragging mouth up.

[dweller]

4. Well, he's now involved the IRS

in a scheme … I wonder what they may have to say about that ?
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Edit: quick google search = The Treasury Offset Program (TOP) is administered by the United States Department of Treasury’s Financial Management Service (FMS). It allows federal and state government agencies to collect outstanding debts owed to them by garnishing, or offsetting, your debt with your tax refund.

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[KewlKat]

20. That's what I was thinking........can't fix stupid!

[Tarc]

5. So...bill him directly, if he doesn't pay, send it to a collections agency?

Ruining his credit rating would be fine by me.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Wouldn't He Still Owe The Balance?

Yeah, I know collecting is a different issue, but a few occurrences adding up to 8 grand and the House could find a thousand collection firms to find ways to garnish other earnings.
I'm not sure this will work as Clyde thinks.
Makes it more difficult, but not impossible to collect.

[viva la]

7. I gather that he doesn't need his paycheck

If he can get by on $1 a month.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Assholes

Link to tweet

[secondwind]

15. Omg 😱

[C_U_L8R]

9. Fine. Seize his assets.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[Corgigal]

16. Yes,

Time to put a lien on his business. Would be fun to watch.

[blogslug]

10. children

they are nothing but children

[rsdsharp]

11. Is he paying estimated taxes? If not, he's going to owe them come April,

and he may owe penalties if he’s underpaid his taxes by a high enough percentage.

[cojoel]

13. The house should pass a resolution

Any member who is re-elected to the next session but has outstanding fines owed to The House of Representatives must pay all of the fines before they are seated in the next Congress.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. The Death Eaters are in the Ministry.

Link to tweet

[spanone]

21. The depth of ignorance in our 'lawmakers' is frightening.

Jesus wept

[ZonkerHarris]

17. take the monies from his House office budget. They get money to run their offices. Dock them there.

[StarfishSaver]

18. That's not their money. It can't be used to pay their personal debt

[apnu]

19. So he willingly docked his own pay to the Government?

They can’t fine him because he already fined himself.

Must be nice to be rich enough to self-own like that.