We have had housekeepers that were probably illegals. We live in CA. So most people are illegals that do house work. What is the cut off in pay that you have to pay SS taxes. Just curious.
There's a difference between the independent contractors that would come over on their own schedule and spend an hour or two a week cleaning your house, and the nanny who probably sleeps in a spare bedroom. The latter is clearly a 'household employee' under the laws governing the taxation of such employees, and your situation is no different from dealing with a business that has hired illegals, you weren't the one violating tax laws. Just my guess, but I used to be an Enrolled Agent many years ago.
I don't hold Kerik responsible for what his wife did while he was serving our country in the military overseas, how much control does anybody expect the guy to have? Also, didn't this occur before all the nanny scandals came out early on in the Clinton years? A larger number of Republicans were guilty of the same thing than we'd like to admit.
Over at DU, the DUmmies are going on about how Kerik thinks that something's coming down the pike as far as a terror attack, and that he's using this as an excuse for not being at the helm when it hits. That's on the far fringes of lunatic, but is it possible that there is some other reason he's withdrawing? I can't imagine that a Republican Senate would fail to approve him for something his wife did while he was overseas. Any Rats who have a problem with it could be shut up just by saying the words, "Kimba Wood".
Anybody else have a nagging suspicion that there are other reasons for Kerik to withdraw?