Posted on 02/03/2009 3:33:01 AM PST by suspects
First Tim Geithner. Now Tom Daschle? Who’s Obama’s next cabinet pick - Wesley Snipes? Dianne Wilkerson?
Not to upset the loyal O-Bots out there, but the last guy from Chicago to have this much income tax trouble was Al Capone. And at last report, he still had an outside shot at getting Commerce secretary.
President Obama pledged to change Washington, and he has. Before Obama, tax cheats used to lose jobs.
Conservative academic Victor Davis Hanson calls the choice of Daschle the “Rezkozation” of the Obama administration. Tony Rezko, you may recall, was the bagman who bankrolled part of Obama’s political career. He’s also a felon.
Amazingly enough, therefore, he hasn’t been tapped to serve in the Obama administration. Yet.
Hanson also points out that Daschle is a “threefer”: a tax cheat, a $5 million-dollar lobbyist (Daschle called himself a “strategist”) and a populist hypocrite to boot.
To paraphrase Dean Wormer from “Animal House,” “Inept, corrupt and elitist is no way to go through life, Tom.” But it’s a great way to get a job from Barack Obama.
Try to imagine Bill Clinton or George Bush getting away with picking a Treasury secretary who didn’t pay his own taxes and then accepted reimbursement for taxes he didn’t pay.
But to follow up one tax cheat with a nominee who skipped on $140,000 in taxes - particularly a former Senate majority leader who wrote the same tax laws he now claims he doesn’t understand - is unimaginable.
Obama pledged there would be “no lobbyists” in his administration. But Daschle earned millions working for lobbying firms like Alston & Bird, and specifically received $220,000 from health-care companies. He “forgot” to report $83,000 in income entirely. Now Daschle’s the “Hope and Change” pick to oversee the health-care industry?
Why not? Sen. Richard Durbin...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
That makes it ok, doesn't it?
Good grief... maybe we can use that excuse when we decide not to pay our taxes.
With Holder as Attorney General Obama’s political cronies will an experienced man at the helm to grant pardons.
It appears that Harry and Nancy are in charge. They are ramming thru every piece of pork they can. Obama is just a puppet.
I never thought I would see the day that tax evasion was considered a prerequisite for employment with the US Treasury Department. Our laws do not apply to Obama’s appointees. They dress up real crimes as “honest mistakes” or “serious mistakes” and create a semi formal hearing to show that they are being “transparent.” Intuit stated that Geinther’s tax problems were not the fault of the software. Dashle, we already know about this guy. $145,000 tax problem with him is no surprise. Both, paid the back taxes when it was convenient.
Obama has changed the interpretation of our laws and who they apply too. These are indisputable facts that are impossible to invalidate.
Clinton WOULD have gotten away with it; Bush wouldn't have. But that's because liberals only scream when it's not their guy - they don't care whether it's right or wrong. Conservatives scream when it's wrong, whether it's their guy or not. That's one of the key differences I've notice between the two ideologies.
Tax evasion. Warrant issued for 'Girls Gone Wild' founder
Headline?
Cabinet post for 'Girls Gone Wild' founder?
Scofflaws Gone Wild
"He's my man."
Not ONLY are they TAX CHEATS, BUT they want to be in CHARGE of Depts like the IRS and Timmy wants to be in charge of MEDICARE when he DIDN’T PAY MEDICARE TAXES!!!!!
PLUS, O nominated thst fst Bill Richardson KNOWING he was UNDER INVESTIGATION for CORRUPTION!!!!
The only two that have no tax problems are the REPUBLICANS!!
He is manning his pirate ship.
"Make no mistake. Tax cheaters cheat us all. The IRS should enforce our laws to the letter."
- Tom Daschle, 1998
The actual article is now at http://www.bostonherald.com/news/..<snip>
aclusux.com wrote:Also, I'm pretty sure Geithner didn't even pay interest on his back taxes. And no penalties. And Daschle didn't pay any penalties either, though he did pay some interest on the back taxes.
Intuit stated that Geinther’s tax problems were not the fault of the software. Dashle, we already know about this guy. $145,000 tax problem with him is no surprise. Both, paid the back taxes when it was convenient.
Do you think that you or I would have gotten by without a penalty assessed for this kind of tax cheating?
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