Posted on 02/04/2009 4:50:46 AM PST by SvenWaring
Change has come... Washington D.C. still seems to be full of parasitic, self-serving hypocrites.
Before the Obama administration can begin redistributing wealth they need to find team members who have actually redistributed their own wealth.
With three cabinet appointees already dropping out because of tax issues, Barack Obama is running out of people who know what taxes are, let alone how to pay them.
Former Senator Thomas Daschle, a candidate to head up the Department of Health, withdrew from nomination after he said he thought taxes were small pins used to put up posters and calendars. He said had no idea he needed to pay them for his limousine.
"In the old days around the Senate, we just called them 'citizen-funded contributions,'" said Daschle. "It sounded so much more social. So sue me."
Nancy Killefer, Obama's pick for Performance Czarina, similarly stepped down when she was unable to monitor the performance of a W2 form.
(Excerpt) Read more at dotpenn.com ...
Sheesh.
Does this idiot socialize with anyone who isn't a criminal or a terrorist?
When will Joe Biden say the cabinet is made up of unAmerican tax cheats?
When will one of the worshipers in the MSM press him on this?
(crickets)
“We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people. It’s time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.” Joe Biden
I’m an accountant who prepares tax returns, and the ones who ask me to cheat for them are usually liberals. I always refuse to cheat. Sometimes I tell them that the government needs the money for all those social programs that the liberals favor.
In Chicago you make a few phone calls and problems like this
go away. They are corrupt in Washington. Just not that corrupt
yet. That is the CHANGE he is talking about.
Work with them.
When they say liberal, they mean liberal with your money.
Apparently, “Culture of Corruption” was a campaign promise, not a campaign platform.
Is there anyone within his inner circle that is honest and decent?
(crickets)
It’s overdue that the citizens of the country insist, no, make that demand, that every elected or appointed official have his/her tax returns for the last seven years be audited. Make that at all levels of government starting at the federal level.
Let he who pays taxes, cast the first tax.
Cool Beans!! You get my vote hands down on both accords!
FR needs an “Obama rogues gallery”, listing all of those appointees receiving exemption from his “no lobbyists” rule and tax cheats.
It could be placed by admin into ‘Editorials’ with a lock and label “The Foxes in the O-Hen House”.
“Tax to the Max” Ron Sims, the HUD Secretary appointee has an Office Hugs problem that Bill Clinton would be proud of.
See kids, the founding fathers didn't want us to pay taxes.
Kind of like the deck of cards they used in Iraq.
there are sure going to a be a lot of tax audits and domestic employee checks going on in the next couple of weeks as the messiah scrambles to fill all those positions that require public scrutiny
[Note to late night comedians: You have my permission to use this, if you ever dare to make fun of YOUR candidate.]
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