The FAIRTAX is a far better solution.
It would have kept poor little Timmy here out of trouble and...
What? Say again?? Oh, you say that because he was well connected, HE didn't GET into trouble?
NEVER MIND!!
Posted on 01/21/2009 1:11:47 PM PST by Technical Editor
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner said Wednesday he was careless in failing to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes earlier this decade but declared "I have paid what I owed." He apologized to Congress.
As to his failure to pay payroll taxes from 2001 to 2004 while he worked for the International Monetary Fund, Geithner said: "These were careless mistakes. They were avoidable mistakes."
"But they were unintentional," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...
Do we really want someone this stupid to run Treasury?
I FORGOT!!!!
Sorry does not feed the American Bulldog, for that chump’s incompetence and tax avoidance.
Respectfully,
NSNR-14
No one believes for a second it had anything to do with “stupid”...
He’s only sorry he got caught.
I'm going to make a "mistake" on my tax return.
It's an avoidable mistake.
I'll say that I'm sorry.
I'll apologize to Congress, even.
Let's see how far I ge..............< NO CARRIER >
Well, I do. He thinks we’re stupid, so he’s stupid, and you’d have to be stupid to say something was avoidable but unintentional. If you can avoid something, you are choosing not to avoid it when you fail to avoid it. He’s so stupid that he uses an assertion like that, and thinks we’re stupid in that he expects us to buy that stupid argument.
Yes, as a matter of fact, anyone who can say what he said IS profoundly stupid. Either that or English is not his native tongue.
The privileged few. I guess he’s like the queen to the king.
The FAIRTAX is a far better solution.
It would have kept poor little Timmy here out of trouble and...
What? Say again?? Oh, you say that because he was well connected, HE didn't GET into trouble?
NEVER MIND!!
BULLHOCKEY.
Baloney. BS
Here, more simply:
1. Something is avoidable when I can avoid it. That is, the thing could be avoided if I did something to avoid it.
2. Not doing something to avoid something else is choosing to not act. That is a conscious choice. A conscious choice can be described as an intention.
3. Thus, failing to avoid something that we claim was avoidable means we chose to not avoid it, and we cannot then claim to have had no intention to do so (see #2 above).
ZACKLEY!!!
ZACKLEY!!!
When there is a difference between precision and accuracy, context is everything.
Yep, and hopes no one notices. I doubt DNC TV will carry it. Or for that matter, the New York Times probably wouldn't think it newsworthy, unless it were a Bush appointee -- Then there would be at least four front page articles about what a crook he was.
All I know the IRS would not just go along with this type of response if it was any of us.
If I get a letter this year from the IRS, I will cite this case and say I forgot.
There, fixed the title...
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