Tea Party Challenger To Harry Reid Owes More Than $200,000 in Back Taxes

[democracy1st]

Game Over See ya!


Jon Scott Ashjian, Harry Reid's Tea Party Challenger, Owes More Than $200,000 in Back Taxes

The chips may already be stacked against Jon Scott Ashjian, the man who recently filed as a Tea Party candidate for Harry Reid's Nevada Senate seat.

A report last week uncovered that the successful business owner owes more than $200,000 in back taxes. On top of that, recent polls appear to confirm Republican worries that a Tea Party candidate might skim enough conservative votes to change the election in the Democrats favor.

In a profile in the Las Vegas Sun, J. Patrick Coolican reports that Ashjian "has an IRS lien on his property because he owes more than $200,000 in back taxes, according to the county recorder."

Coolican also reports that Ashjian's company, A&A Asphalt Paving Co., is currently dealing with a complaint about a $1000 bad check issued to a vendor last year. Though Ashjian shut the company down a month later, he now faces charges of failing to "provide a financial statement or other evidence of his financial responsibility," and could lose his business license following a hearing later this month.

Ashjian told the Las Vegas Sun that he was unaware of both the back taxes and the complaints against his asphalt company. Financial problems like this are to be expected of small business owners like him, he said, and were actually a big reason behind his decision to launch a Senate bid.

"This elitist crowd doesn't have any clue about the pain and suffering experienced by the average American," he told the Sun. "Every small-business owner is in the same boat."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/08/jon-scott-ashjian-harry-r_n_489938.html

[Bluebear]

1. Game over??? The Tea Party ilk will LOVE that.

[havocmom]

4. Yep. I know many who STILL insist taxes are illegal

And they paid good money to go to seminars that validated that ridiculous assumption, even while a few have been through legal proceedings related to failure to pay.

They don't want to pay for services they use and nothing will change their minds. They will be wildly supportive of ANYBODY who at least pretends to agree with them. I have little doubt they will send contributions to hopeful pols who actually cheat on their taxes.

[HopeHoops]

2. No WONDER he hates taxes.

And no, every small-business owner is NOT in that boat. Most pay their taxes and don't write bad checks! Think FOX will pick up on this? :sarcasm:

[CanonRay]

3. That'll make him a hero with that bunch

[liberal N proud]

5. Sounds like he takes the teabaggers no taxes literally

[napi21]

6. Unless he had a fairly large Co. it's IMPOSSIBLE that he didn't

know about the IRS lein! The IRS is relentless & litteraly become your penpal in cases like that. Even if his co. was big enough that he had others doing all the accounting, I'm positive they would have told him about a $200,000 lein!

[no limit]

7. Yeah, the average american owes $200,000 in back taxes

[DemoTex]

8. Don't rent Ashjian any small airplanes ..

Just sayin' ..

:shrug:

[UTUSN]

9. K&R #8. Kick it UP!1 n/t

[Lochloosa]

10. I'm sure sean hannity will cover this extensively this afternoon.

:evilgrin:

[4_TN_TITANS]

11. Meanwhile people like me have been paying their

fair share all these years. People like this should get no voice whatsoever about government until they have paid in full.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. wow... good find.

[JoeyT]

13. Speaking as an

ex-small business owner, fuck him and his broad brush.
I was paid up until the day I closed.

I regularly dealt with assholes like him that spouted about accountability and free markets and fiscal responsibility while simultaneously handing out rubber checks. That's a big part of why I don't own a business anymore. Ten bucks says this isn't the first time he's written someone a bad company check.