[Brad from Tennessee]

In early 2009 a number of Obama nominees for political appointments, including ex-Senator Tom Daschle, were disqualified because they owed back taxes to the IRS. And Rep. Charles Rangel, who should have been charged with tax evasion, got a very generous settlement. But did he even pay that?

I'm wondering how the IRS has handled tax delinquencies of high level Democrats since Obama took office.

[TurboZamboni]

Rep. Chaffetz proposes firing federal workers who are tax cheats

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2010/03/rep_chaffetz_proposes_firing_f.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz

You can’t do that! It would mean getting rid of half of Congress. Well,maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

[alloysteel]

Democrats have been forgiven of any and all tax delinquencies from Taxable Year 2009 forward, they need only show they voted for the straight Democrat ticket. Not too hard to show, in most cases the records indicate that they had voted that way according to the poll records, and they have a paper trail of contributions to Democrat fund raisers.

Whether they showed up at the polls once, multiple times, or not at all, leaving their vote up to the surrogates who appeared for them.

Republicans, on the other hand, are subject to endless audits, going back up to fifteen years, and including any gratuities, service in kind, or “imputed income”. Also, any and all deductions are called into question.

Obviously, Republicans, particularly conservative Republicans, cheat on their taxes much more than Democrats.