Rapper Cardi B demanded that the government explain how it spends her tax dollars in a profanity-laced video posted to Instagram Thursday night.
The 25-year-old star explained that she contributes 40 percent of her income to the government and called for greater transparency in how those funds are spent.
Cardi B is getting into tax policy now. She says she's paying 40% of her income in taxes and wants to know where the money is going…"when you donate to a kid in a foreign country, they give you updates on what they're doing with your donation….I want updates on my tax money." pic.twitter.com/E1hITGNqee
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 23, 2018
“Uncle Sam, I want to know what you’re doing with my f***ing tax money,” she said before complaining about the lack of adequate public sanitation in New York City and the squalid condition of the city’s prisons.
“I’m from New York and the streets is always dirty. We was voted the dirtiest city in America….There’s still rats on the damn trains. I know you’re not spending it in no damn prisons because y’all be giving n***as like two underwear, one jumpsuit for like 5 months.”
The Thursday video is not Cardi B’s first foray into tax policy; late last year she posted a video complaining about the IRS and asking that anyone who owed her money delay payment until after her 2017 taxes were paid.
4. The video above wasn’t the first time Cardi B has talked about taxes. Late last year, she shared her tax planning strategies with her followers. pic.twitter.com/rtIai4Xl6I
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 23, 2018
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and a leading advocate of the recent Republican tax-reform bill, summarized Cardi B’s sentiments in a responding tweet.
This taxpayer explains that she would like somewhat more transparency in how government spends her tax dollars.
Warning: the use of one anglo-saxon word in this short monologue is somewhat repetitive https://t.co/jmuVvA1IKm
— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) March 23, 2018