Yet another Obama nominee discovers he owes thousands in back taxes
What is it with these Obama nominees and paying taxes? All of them are these “high taxes are good” spendthrifts who preach raising whatever taxes you’ve got and yet, curiously, they can’t seem to manage to actually report all of their income and pay the taxes on them. Former Senator Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for Health and Human Services Secretary, is the latest. When nominated for this post he “discovered” he owed more than $100K in back taxes and interest. In 2007 (you know, the tax year he’d have been reporting just last April) he failed to report $88K in consulting income. What will this be dismissed as? “Oh, sorry, I forgot”?
Only when he was actually nominiated did the issue become worthy of reporting and those taxes suddenly become important to pay up on. Does anyone really believe he’d have ever paid those taxes – taxes he owed, mind you – if he hadn’t been nominated? So, like Geithner, he’ll get to report them, pay the taxes and some token interest, and walk away from what you and I would be severely fined for. That’s assuming we didn’t get jailed. Hope, change, transparency, and a no-excuses non-corruption government? Oh, yeah… looks real good so far.
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