We’ve written several facts about the highest ranking losertarian in America, Jeff Hewitt.
We know that Jeff Hewitt’s business produced little or no income for him from 2016 – 2018 as proven by welfare payments known as the Earned Income Credit were reported on two of his tax returns.
We also know that Hewitt has been liened 50 times by various government agencies for not paying his bills.
It appears that Hewitt really needed a good job. Why not suck off of the government teet? He already gave it a trial run with the welfare payments he took. (What a small-government libertarian he is!)
Hewitt is here in a nice video with Libertarian idiot Adam Kokesh who likes to walk around Washington DC with guns in his possession. (Then that nimrod wonders why he gets arrested and tossed in jail) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZ5ZPvHA0k
At the 6:40 mark, Hewitt unloads a Biden-esque whopper, “I can mess up government on a bigger scale”. (kinda like champagne pools and his personal finances?)
“I will save us hundreds of millions a year with one simple moral act: I will take full responsibility for my decisions.” – Jeff Hewitt
Before Jeff Hewitt was sworn in as a supervisor, he made a public pledge that he would not accept a scheduled pay raise upon taking office. He took it anyhow. About a year later, when it was publicly revealed that he had taken the raise, Hewitt feigned surprise, claiming that the county checks are too complicated for him to understand. (Spoken like a successful businessman, huh?)
Once people tried to make him take full responsibility for his decision – Hewitt then claimed that he works really hard for his salary and that deserves it and that he needs the extra $20,000 to be able to feed his family. He also told the press that being a county supervisor is a full time job, and it prevents him from earning additional outside income.
While Jeff Hewitt was right for the wrong reasons on opposing pay raises for union workers in Riverside County, there are the following facts:
During the same first six months he was in office, Jeff Hewitt voted against every public employee contract, claiming that the county couldn’t afford to pay the low wage workers a COLA much smaller that what he was taking for himself…
Hewitt continued opposing small salary increases for other county workers, saying he can’t support any pay increases without the employees paying more toward their pensions.
Hewitt did not impose this same increased pension cost standard on himself.
Don’t forget the value of Hewitt’s benefits alone are about $27,000 a year!
Now, take a look at Hewitt’s 2019 and 2020 tax returns when compared to the 2016-2018 returns (where Hewitt received welfare for his lack of income). In 2019 and 2020, Hewitt was getting his gigantic County Supervisor Salary…
2020
Total Income $184,846
Taxable Income $156,990
Total Fed Tax paid $24,118
2019
Total Income $175,794
Taxable Income $150,094
Total Fed Tax paid $22,738
2018
Total Income $59,947
Taxable Income $27,957
Total Fed Tax paid $962
2017
Total Income $30,655
Taxable Income $4,733
Total Fed Tax paid -$1,264
2016
Total Income $29,430
Taxable Income $1,588
Total Fed Tax paid -$122
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In 2019, Hewitt’s Supervisor Salary was more than his 2016-2018 total income combined. Yet Hewitt claimed, “he needs the extra $20,000 to be able to feed his family.” In 2016, $29000 seemed to do the job nicely.
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Also note that whist making the six-figure salary from the County, Hewitt was liened twice for not paying his bills!
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Supervisor Jeff Hewitt, who makes $171,066, said being a supervisor shouldn’t be a job for people who are retired or well-off.
“I think this brings in a more diverse group (old, retired white guys?) that allows either younger people or people that haven’t had … either luck or a lot more opportunity in their life to make a lot of money” to become a supervisor, he said. “I know that this is a full-time job. It doesn’t give me the opportunity to go out and make any other money, whether I do things right or wrong.” Allowing supervisors to set their pay could cause a scenario in which “lame-duck supervisors …vote ourselves a 300% (pay) increase and there’s nothing anybody can do about it,”
See article here–
In the words of Jeff Hewitt – allow us automatic raises or we will increase our pay 300%. He also says Pay Raises contribute to diversity. That is positively woke.
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Any reasonable person seeing the above will conclude that this is the best job Hewitt has ever had and he loves getting more money from the government (that he rails against). This is typical libertarian hypocrisy in practice.
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P.S. has the $171K salary of Hewitt’s been used to pay off any of those liens? P.S. those pay raises he allegedly turned down, did he refund them to the county?
