Posted on 09/01/2010 9:49:52 AM PDT by La Lydia
Following the steps of the nation’s Treasury Secretary and a powerful New York congressman, a two-term state treasurer who portrays himself as a vigilant custodian of public money has failed to pay taxes over the past decade. Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy Cahill, a gubernatorial candidate, owes the state about $15,000 in taxes for income his campaign committee account has earned from investments in the last ten years. Like the other high-profile public servants who failed miserably to fulfill their civic duty, Cahill only agreed to right the wrong after the media exposed the crime.
Cahill has raised millions of dollars for his political campaigns over the years, much of it from sources with business before his agency, and a local newspaper discovered that there was no record of checks to the state to cover taxes. A former Democrat who is running for governor as an independent, Cahill quickly acknowledged the “lapse” and vowed to pay the decades worth of taxes.
He’s hardly the only public servant to blow off taxes. President Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, got busted during confirmation hearings for failing to pay $34,000 in federal taxes on his lucrative salary at the International Monetary Fund. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) graciously waived the hefty penalties when Geithner was forced to pay the debt before getting confirmed.
Another high-profile tax evader, ethically challenged Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel, was actually the chairman of the House committee (Ways and Means) that writes the tax policy for the entire nation when he blew off the IRS. For two decades Rangel, who is embroiled in a major ethics scandal, “forgot” to pay taxes on rental income from a Caribbean villa.
Tax delinquency is so rampant among federal workers—including those at key presidential cabinet agencies—that Congress introduced legislation last year to fire derelict employees and ban the hiring of other scofflaws. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees and retirees owe Uncle Sam billions of dollars in taxes and the figure increases annually, according to the IRS, which revealed that in 2008 alone 276,300 federal workers stiffed the government out of $3.04 billion in taxes.
A bet Cahill doesn’t have to pay penalty and interest either just like Geithner didn’t.
I can guarantee you that us peasants will never get away with that! Our penatly and interest alone would compound yearly.
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Face it, they all suck. Slick Willard clone Baker and his lib gay running mate won’t do squat for Conservatives or the MA GOP. If you’re gonna have an incompetent liberal Governor, let it be an openly-identified Democrat instead of a DIABLO RINO.
All 3 major candidates are terrible. That's why I said “f*ck it” and am voting for Jill Stein (Green-Rainbow). At this point, what's the difference, really?
I mean, even if Baker wasn’t a liberal weasel, what would he be able to do as a GOP Governor ? The MA GOP has to focus on winning back enough of the legislature to sustain a veto and THEN we run a suitable candidate for Governor. Every time we’ve elected a Republican Governor, the numbers of GOP legislators drops like a rock, and that won’t change as long as we keep putting up execrable liberals on our ticket.
IMO, Baker is the WORST candidate the MA GOP could have come up with. That's right, WORSE than even Jane Swift. Baker ran Harvard Pilgrim into the ground and wrote RomneyCare, which is an unpardonable sin.
I would vote for either Coupe Deval or Tim for Taxcheat before Baker. And I'm about as far from being a Democrat as you can get; as I've posted in the past, I consider most Democrats to be barely human (Zell Miller types excluded).
IMO, involvement with RomneyCare, which was the blueprint for ObamaCare is tantamount to being a mass murder. I have little difference in my opinion between Charlie Baker and Charlie Manson. If that's radical, so be it.
ObamaCare = DeathCare = MengeleCare = AuschwitzCare
All are genocide and all were planned to be such. Mullah Obama’s Death Panels will decide who Big Brother will allow to live and who will be forced to die via no healthcare.
That’s exactly it!!! People need to understand this!!!
I added one thing to your flowchart:
RomneyCare = ObamaCare = DeathCare = MengeleCare = AuschwitzCare
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