Gingrich Used Payroll Tax Ploy Often Attacked By IRS
Like John Edwards before him, Gingrich ducked Medicare taxes by treating most of his income as S corp. profits, not compensation.
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Gingrich archives show his public praise, private criticism of Reagan
A review of thousands of documents detailing Newt Gingrich's career shows many instances where he criticized Ronald Reagan, whom he regularly invokes today in his presidential campaign. The archives, the Post reports, show Gingrich's moderate-to-liberal beginnings, and a move right with an eye on political expediency. He was often critical of fellow Republicans, and grandiose in his ambitions, saying in a 1979 address, "My job description as I have defined it is to save Western civilization."
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