-By Warner Todd Huston
Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, arguably the most famous illegal alien in the media, has repeatedly argued that he and other illegals are productive members of society and pay their “fair share” of taxes. But this claim just took a hit after news leaked that a federal tax lien of over $41K was levied against his property in California due to a failure to pay taxes.
Records showing the lien against Vargas’ property were revealed by Red Alert Politics this week. The filings show that the journalist was hit with a $41,945.44 tax lien on Jan. 7, 2015 for failing to pay his 2010 taxes.
On a myriad of occasions Vargas has claimed that illegals, including himself, are law abiding, tax paying citizens. He made the claim in the famous 2011 New York Times article in which he “outed” himself as an illegal alien who had been breaking the law for over a decade. He also made the claim in such places as Time magazine in 2012, on CNN in 2014, and in multiple other venues.
For instance, in the Time article, Vargas wrote, “Undocumented workers pay taxes. I’ve paid income taxes, state and federal, since I started working at 18. The IRS doesn’t care if I’m here legally; it cares about its money.”
One part of his story has changed over the years, though. The age at which he began paying taxes has varied from one story to the next. Sometimes he says he started paying taxes at age 18, in other stories he said he was 19, and in still others he said he was 22.
To explain his failure to pay taxes, Vargas told the website that in 2010 he had stopped illegally using his grandfather’s identification which was on record with the various government agencies that assess taxes and because of that his tax bills never reached him. He maintained that government agencies no longer had his proper information on record in order to send him a bill.
Vargas didn’t explain why it didn’t seem to occur to him to that he should seek out those government agencies to inform them of his new contact information.
The host of MTV’s “White People” further claimed that he paid off the nearly $42 tax bill in one payment in February of this year. He did not reveal where he got such a large sum all at once.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Wizbang.com, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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