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Geithner apologizes for not paying taxes (Careless mistakes. What a joke. Welcome to 'Change'.)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/21/09 | Martin Crutsinger - ap

Posted on 01/21/2009 8:56:48 AM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary-designate Tim Geithner said Wednesday he was careless in failing to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes earlier this decade and apologized to Congress.

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As to his failure to pay the payroll taxes from 2001 to 2004 while he worked for the International Monetary Fund, Geithner said: "These were careless mistakes. They were avoidable mistakes."

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How hard is it to not be corrupt?

Apparently, for DemocRats, impossible.

1 posted on 01/21/2009 8:56:49 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

But it’s alright now. He apologized and everything is good. CHANGE!


2 posted on 01/21/2009 8:57:50 AM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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To: NormsRevenge
Funny. Democrat Charlie Rangel also claimed careless mistakes.

Democrats not paying taxes while raising them on the rest of us is the height of hypocrisy.

3 posted on 01/21/2009 8:58:49 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Support your local brewery. Take a drink everytime the Democrats mention 'children')
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To: NormsRevenge
More Clintonian behavior. I'm sure any one of us would be given a pass if we simply said we were sorry. Yeah, right.
4 posted on 01/21/2009 8:59:36 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (The Kenyan Keynesian will bankrupt this nation.)
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To: NormsRevenge
I just wish a Senator would ask Geithner: “Do you believe that paying taxes is only for the little people”?
5 posted on 01/21/2009 8:59:38 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Barack Obama: The Bernie Madoff of Politics)
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To: NormsRevenge; unkus; justiceseeker93; BossLady; freekitty; SouthTexas

That BS didn’t work for the Republicans; won’t work for Liberal scum. That is, if the GOP finds its spine and gonads.


6 posted on 01/21/2009 8:59:40 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: NormsRevenge
...he worked for the International Monetary Fund

That alone should throw him in jail.

7 posted on 01/21/2009 9:00:14 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Liberal media gloating makes me feel like reloading)
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To: NormsRevenge

gotta love the vetting!


8 posted on 01/21/2009 9:00:29 AM PST by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: Dallas59

Yah, he apologized to Congress. You and I would be apologizing from prison!


9 posted on 01/21/2009 9:00:33 AM PST by InsensitiveConservative
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zer0bama: The Clintonian Culture of Corruption continues ....
10 posted on 01/21/2009 9:01:13 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

But,but,only Timmy can save us!!!


11 posted on 01/21/2009 9:01:15 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: NormsRevenge

I did not have sex with that tax form.


12 posted on 01/21/2009 9:01:24 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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Chalk another one up on the Hussein Scandal Board.


13 posted on 01/21/2009 9:01:58 AM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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14 posted on 01/21/2009 9:03:12 AM PST by maggief
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Look on the bright side - you now have a 100% iron-clad excuse when audited by the IRS. “I made an honest mistake, like your boss”.


15 posted on 01/21/2009 9:03:21 AM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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Oh, come on people. I just heard Geithner on radio say that these were all just careless mistakes that he should not have made, but that it was unintentional, and that he took full responsibility for them. So, what more can you ask for in a Treasury Secretary who'll oversee the IRS?
16 posted on 01/21/2009 9:05:13 AM PST by Will88
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Fat chance. One set of rule for the elites, another for use taxpayers/serfs.


17 posted on 01/21/2009 9:06:36 AM PST by PogySailor (We're so screwed.....welcome to the American Oligarchy)
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To: NormsRevenge

From Wikipedia:

“During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation’s microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham-Soetoro, mother of President Barack Obama”

No red flags there!

“Geithner believes, along with Henry Paulson, that the Treasury Department needs new authority to experiment with responses to the financial crisis of 2008.”

No problem there!

“While an employee of IMF, Geithner signed a tax worksheet stating his “obligation of the U.S. Social Security tax, which I will pay on my fund income”[25] and another annual worksheet stating “I wish to apply for tax allowance of U.S. federal and state income taxes and the difference between the ‘self-employed’ and ‘employed’ obligation of the U.S. Social Security tax which I will pay on my Fund income.”

Seems more intentional than a ‘mistake’

Lets see, a socialist involved with the Ford Foundation, and their dealings with the largest Muslim Dictatorship in the world, wants more authority to ‘experiment’ with our money, while he cheats on his own taxes.

Sounds perfect for the job.


18 posted on 01/21/2009 9:07:27 AM PST by lacrew (Where's Blago?)
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To: NormsRevenge

I think we all need to join the DemocRat Party so that “we too” can get away with breaking the laws. It’s the only solution.


19 posted on 01/21/2009 9:07:42 AM PST by XenaLee
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Poor judgment and poor decision making cannot be waved away with an apology.

The facts make it clear that he took those actions intentionally. That alone disqualifies him from the office.

He’ll get in anyway, but it SHOULD disqualify him.


20 posted on 01/21/2009 9:08:15 AM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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