Turns out MTG's vitriol and stupidity DON'T serve her well... go figure

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30. Some of her compatriots opted to raise their federal income tax withholdings

so that their "salary" was $1, to skirt the fines -

Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde evading House fines, GOP colleague says


By Melanie Zanona, CNN

Updated 8:24 PM ET, Fri July 30, 2021


(CNN) Rep. Andrew Clyde, the Georgia Republican who compared scenes from January 6 to a "tourist visit," has found a way to evade the House's mask and metal detector fines, according to one of his GOP colleagues.

Rep. Thomas Massie, who is suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the chamber's mask penalties, said Clyde changed his tax withholding in a way that makes it nearly impossible for the House to collect the thousands of dollars in fines Clyde has already racked up for evading the House's metal detector; he could also face fines for refusing to mask up on the House floor this week.

Normally fines are taken out of a member's congressional salary, but Massie says Clyde, who owns a firearms business, "went to payroll and had his federal withholding raised to $11,284 a month. So he only gets $1 of pay." The maneuver is designed to prevent the House from garnishing his wages.

Massie added, "Of course, it all goes to his mask fine. But he'll have to be elected until 3,324 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 a request for comment. The House Ethics Committee declined to comment.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/andrew-clyde-mask-fine/index.html

Of course since then, no media follow-up on THAT (apparently a couple "no comments" was enough to put their "normally (intrusive and unrelenting 'to get to the truth') inquisitive" selves in check.