Why all the tax issues with Obama nominations?
 

First Geithner had tax issues.

Then we learned Tom Daschle "failed to pay his taxes including $128,000 for a car and driver he was given."

Now Nancy Killefer has resigned her nomination to become chief performance officer due to ?unspecified tax issues?.

Maybe tax enforcement is going to be weaker this 4 years. That is lucky for most of you ;-)

lol, this is so much fun to watch.

Nothing amazes me about those people. They are as bad if not worse than the ones they point the finger at.

ALL POLITICIANS HAVE TAX PROBLEMS, its only if someone wants to expose you or not...

oh and Daschle was saving money via "consulting" not just for a car...

Because they have to pick on something, heaven forbid we actually get qualified people in government.

It's all about the change.

Taxes is what they get them on when there is nothing else.

Yeah, like Capone. He was framed.

I'd say most of gfy has nothing to worry about since they don't earn very much. Some of us might get assfucked harder.

Well...I suspect that more people than not...have tax issues if they are using anymore than an EZ form and they were to be adudited. I fired an accountant once...because...even though I had specifically told him that I did not want any kind of creative accounting done...the IRS concluded that I owed a substantial amount more than what the accountant came up with. As everyone knows the tax code is very complicated.

In the case of Daschle...I for one...just off of the top of my head...would not have known that if a friend did me a favor and provided me with the use of a car and driver I would have to pay taxes for the favor. Maybe an accountant would know that or should know that.

It seems some of that stuff is a little strange. For example, the car service. If I worked for a company that let me use a car service I would never think to pay taxes on that. In fact, I don't even think that makes sense.

But most businesses or people making over a certain amount have some unresolved tax issues.

I'm not saying these people don't sometime turn a blind eye either when it saves them a ton of cash, but I see how it can be difficult to be perfect.

Everyone knows that these limousine liberals love to raise taxes for the rest of us but feel no obligation to pay taxes themselves. Just standard leftist hypocrisy.

LOL... yeah and his wife became one of the most successful lobbyists ever while he was the Senate Majority Leader funneling 10's of millions of dollars into their bank accounts, and to top it off, once the voters in his own state threw him out of office, he got a gig for a lobbying firm making $5mil a year.

I thought we were gonna get change... WHERE is the change? All I see is the same political elite that have been fleecing this country for decades.

You're totally right. This whole thing is bizarre! Daschle has to drop out because of this, but Geithner gets a pass on delibereatly not paying taxes he had to know he owed? This entire process looks like a joke now.

Fuck Taxes. All I have to say

I wonder how far that goes?

If your neighbor drives you somewhere for free, is that considered income?

Obviously it is income when you are a Democrat and the Republicans want to undermine the Obama presidency from the start.

LOL - so far, he hasn't needed the Republicans help. It's like a circus!

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yeah, a republican has never had tax *issue* and always pays.

No kidding! That's totally true! But they were not being vetting for high ranking cabinet positions... that's the reason this is even an issue.


Personally - I think that if the tax code is too complicated for Dashel and Geithner to follow (and Geithner is now the treasury head?) then its definately too complicated for the rest of us. It's time for a FLAT TAX! If anyone had a brain, they would use this as the perfect example as a reason that justifies throwing out the tax codes to replace them with a FLAT TAX RATE!

Really? In high school when I did my taxes I included the free meals I received at McD's as it was income in lieu of wages. I was 15.

Really? Damn I might still owe a few bucks from 1984

they can't get you for issues over 7 years old:)

They should get rid of the fuckin tax code so that not everyone and their mother has tax issues. But boohoo, how many IRS and accountant jobs would that kill?

One lot of corrupt crooks out, now its time for the other team of corrupt crooks to ride the gravy train for a few years :)

obama was on the news and said he screwed up and he is moving forward. not use to hearing those words from the decider.

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bushie didn't screw up once, according to bushie!

That is one of the funniest things you've said in weeks.

*Slow clap* :winkwink: