Posted on 03/17/2009 3:59:32 AM PDT by Scanian
It’s been a recurring question about the young Obama administration: Why have so many of its nominees come down with tax problems?
Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, Ron Kirk, Nancy Killefer, and a number of others who didn’t make it to the nomination stage — all have been felled, or tainted, by unpaid tax bills ranging from a few hundred dollars to more than $140,000. After the first few cases, Republican Rep. Eric Cantor quipped that “it’s easy for [Democrats] to sit here and advocate higher taxes because — you know what? — they don’t pay them.”
For their part, some Democrats have suggested that the Senate Finance Committee, which investigates nominees before confirmation, has gotten so nit-picky in examining tax returns that good candidates have gone down in flames. “The Finance Committee has gone a bit overboard, and I find it a little striking that a Democratic committee is doing this to a Democratic administration,” one anonymous insider told the Politico recently. “This has been a lot more in-depth and detailed, to the point of being silly.”
Now, we find out that neither Cantor nor the unnamed Democrat was correct. The problem is not with Democrats in general, nor with the Finance Committee in particular. The problem is the Obama White House, which, fully aware of its nominees’ tax issues, decided that those problems were trivial, or that the public wouldn’t care about them, and pushed forward with nominations that in the past would have been quietly shelved.
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Hubris, thy first name is Barry.
Flat Tax Now! Then complying would be too simple to screw up.
The fact is just about anybody can be found to have not paid some tax or other. That’s one of the problems with our rapacious system. It makes us all “criminals”.
Thousands vs tens of dollars? One difference between a democrat and me.
It’s part of the leftist worldview that those elites that know better than everyone else shouldn’t be encumbered by the laws that the rest of us have to adhere to.
Are you sure that Barry isn’t the father of Hubris and his identical twin Hypocrisy?
No, there's nothing wrong with a tax code that is tens of thousands of self-contradicting pages long. It's just "nit-picking".
Effing drooling morons.
You misunderstand me if you think that I am defending anybody associated with Obama. My point stands: the tax code is an abomination. It is foolish to bother bending over backwards to crucify these people. It is not necessary. Defending the horror known as the IRS is more than bending over backwards.
Obama and his people are totally unacceptable because of what they think and plan to do not because they didn’t pay enough taxes or what they wear or how they look, etc.
The List, ping
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