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bots shrieked unceasingly about joe the plumber's $1400 in back taxes. will they give a pass to bammers' treasury secretary pick, in the same disconnect that allowed them to completely ignore the fact that o's very own campaign treasurer also owed more back taxes than mr. wurzelbacher?
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WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation's economic rescue disclosed publicly Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication that Senate Democrats tried to brush aside as a minor bump on an otherwise smooth path to confirmation. Treasury nominee says he failed to pay taxes - White House transition- msnbc.com
bots shrieked unceasingly about joe the plumber's $1400 in back taxes. will they give a pass to bammers' treasury secretary pick, in the same disconnect that allowed them to completely ignore the fact that o's very own campaign treasurer also owed more back taxes than mr. wurzelbacher?
The guy was the Chairman of the NY Fed and a member of the CFR. He's the real deal. He's above paying taxes.
I do not believe anybody is above the law. If such a mistake been committed by a common man, the issue would have been inflated and under federal guidelines, one will face incarceration. Irs is not easy to work with. Treasury secretary nominee made this an issue for others to quote his errors. I feel he should face the consequences like anybody else.
I do not believe anybody is above the law. If such a mistake been committed by a common man, the issue would have been inflated and under federal guidelines, one will face incarceration. Irs is not easy to work with. Treasury secretary nominee made this an issue for others to quote his errors. I feel he should face the consequences like anybody else.
yes indeed.
it seems the left is infinitely more troubled by some little guy who owed $1400, on the basis that he asked thee mighty bammers a difficult question.
I do not believe anybody is above the law. If such a mistake been committed by a common man, the issue would have been inflated and under federal guidelines, one will face incarceration. Irs is not easy to work with. Treasury secretary nominee made this an issue for others to quote his errors. I feel he should face the consequences like anybody else.
Get a life. These are garden variety issues of conformance that arise and are dealt with hundreds of thousands of times per year. If all you ever do is file a 1040A every year, you're not so likely to run into any of them, but if you should at some point end up paying the AMT and having to calculate schedule this and that including all the tabular offets and carry-forwards that come with them, you will start hearing from the IRS. I have had that pleasure three times in the past seven years, and contrary to your assertion, the IRS is in fact very easy to work with to the extent that your return suggests error or imprecision rather than attempted fraud. They are interested in establishing in cooperation with the taxpayer what the proper amount of tax owed actually is. The idea that anybody at all faces incarceration for things such as faulty recordkeeping or having had a different understanding of the regulations from that held by the IRS is simply an absurdity.
Geez, you have to wonder what kind of accountant he had and it is bothersome that the man over the IRS evidently is not overly knowledgable in the field.
Obama's Homeland Security pick didn't even complete her own state's plan
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PHOENIX – President-elect Barack Obama's choice for homeland security chief blames budget problems and the difficulty coordinating agencies in Arizona, where she has been governor, for failing to complete key provisions of a detailed security plan for her own state.
Gov. Janet Napolitano put together the plan six years ago to improve Arizona's ability to respond to emergencies, detect and prevent terrorist attacks and secure Arizona's border with Mexico. But some key provisions remain incomplete.
Homeland security pick didn't complete state plan - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/homeland_security_napolitano - broken link)
It may be impossible for someone to hold more idiotic open-borders views than Jorge W. Bush, but Obama may just top him.
It may be impossible for someone to hold more idiotic open-borders views than Jorge W. Bush, but Obama may just top him.
Those excuses will make me feel better when we get hit by terrorists again. She'll be a great addition to the Obama team along with Geithner who wants to be treasury secretary but has trouble figuring out payroll taxes. You can't make this stuff up.
Those excuses will make me feel better when we get hit by terrorists again. She'll be a great addition to the Obama team along with Geithner who wants to be treasury secretary but has trouble figuring out payroll taxes. You can't make this stuff up.
No you cannot make this up.......... It is so very sad
Suppose they gave a spin-fest and nobody came...
[cue the crickets]
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Obama's Homeland Security pick didn't even complete her own state's plan
