Stacey Abrams, the Democrat candidate for governor of Georgia, owes over $50,000 in back taxes to the IRS. She owes about $70,000 in credit card debt. She also owes about $100,000 in student loan debt. That ignores the mortgage on her home and the loan on her car. She calls herself "working poor", but that is not accurate. She earned about $20,000 as a Georgia state legislator, at least $150,000 as an author, and at least another $200,000 as the head of a consulting firm. That makes her total something like $350,000 for the year, hardly "working poor".
How Abrams could fail to pay her taxes for the last two years is a question that she answers by saying that she put her family first. If that were a valid excuse, we could all just stop paying taxes. The better question, though, is how could the voters of Georgia pick her to run the entire state if she can't even manage to comply with the law and pay her own taxes. On top of that, she has major credit card debt which seems to be a sign she can't manage money.
This is not something unknown to voters during the primary. I don't understand how Georgia voters could pick someone this unqualified as a candidate for governor.
How Abrams could fail to pay her taxes for the last two years is a question that she answers by saying that she put her family first. If that were a valid excuse, we could all just stop paying taxes. The better question, though, is how could the voters of Georgia pick her to run the entire state if she can't even manage to comply with the law and pay her own taxes. On top of that, she has major credit card debt which seems to be a sign she can't manage money.
This is not something unknown to voters during the primary. I don't understand how Georgia voters could pick someone this unqualified as a candidate for governor.
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