February 16, 2009 - PPM - Cabinet Tax Cheats
This week’s PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) is about the continued tax problems of President Obama’s cabinet nominees.
The list of cabinet appointees with tax problems keeps getting longer. The Labor Secretary nominee was put on hold the day I left for vacation.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner who is in charge of the IRS forgets to pay his taxes. Supposedly he is the only person to get us out of this economic malaise, yet he was a key player in the TARP funds last fall. How is that working out?
Putting a tax dodger in charge of the IRS is like appointing Dr. Jack Kevorkian as the Surgeon General.
Health and Human Services appointee Tom Daschle forgot to pay $128,000 in taxes. Forgot? $128,000? Sometimes I forget and find a five spot in my pants on laundry day. I would need to do it over 25,000 times or every Saturday for the next 512 years to accumulate $128,000.
Obama calls them “unintentional mistakes.” Most people call it criminal.
The person designated to be the Chief Performing Officer, the person to make sure “All Works Well in the Government” can’t pay her taxes either.
Obama came out with a big media blitz, in his first act as President saying lobbyists would not be allowed in his administration. He then granted waivers to 2 dozen appointees because they were the “Best of the Best”.
Hey Barack here is some advice. Lower your standards. Your “Best of the Best” can’t get confirmed. And by the way, maybe they aren’t the brightest because they can’t master Turbo Tax or Excel.
If these are the “Best of the Best”, what does that say about the rest of us tax paying, law abiding citizens?
Change. Did we get it? You bet.
We went from an ineffective administration to an incompetent administration.
The new President’s continued missteps have dulled the luster from the Obama commemorative plates, coins and figurines.
Tax evasion, as a Government employee, should be handled like theft or embezzlement in the private sector. These people should be fired, fined, and jailed immediately!!!
NOTE – The local paper printed my PET PEEVE while I was on vacation.
The list of cabinet appointees with tax problems keeps getting longer. The Labor Secretary nominee was put on hold the day I left for vacation.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner who is in charge of the IRS forgets to pay his taxes. Supposedly he is the only person to get us out of this economic malaise, yet he was a key player in the TARP funds last fall. How is that working out?
Putting a tax dodger in charge of the IRS is like appointing Dr. Jack Kevorkian as the Surgeon General.
Health and Human Services appointee Tom Daschle forgot to pay $128,000 in taxes. Forgot? $128,000? Sometimes I forget and find a five spot in my pants on laundry day. I would need to do it over 25,000 times or every Saturday for the next 512 years to accumulate $128,000.
Obama calls them “unintentional mistakes.” Most people call it criminal.
The person designated to be the Chief Performing Officer, the person to make sure “All Works Well in the Government” can’t pay her taxes either.
Obama came out with a big media blitz, in his first act as President saying lobbyists would not be allowed in his administration. He then granted waivers to 2 dozen appointees because they were the “Best of the Best”.
Hey Barack here is some advice. Lower your standards. Your “Best of the Best” can’t get confirmed. And by the way, maybe they aren’t the brightest because they can’t master Turbo Tax or Excel.
If these are the “Best of the Best”, what does that say about the rest of us tax paying, law abiding citizens?
Change. Did we get it? You bet.
We went from an ineffective administration to an incompetent administration.
The new President’s continued missteps have dulled the luster from the Obama commemorative plates, coins and figurines.
Tax evasion, as a Government employee, should be handled like theft or embezzlement in the private sector. These people should be fired, fined, and jailed immediately!!!
NOTE – The local paper printed my PET PEEVE while I was on vacation.
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posted by J. Jay @ 6:07 PM
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3 Comments:
At this rate, Obama will solve the budget crisis through the collection of past due taxes from his Cabinet appointees!
I guess that is one way to clean up Washington.
fire them all
Taxes - who REALLY pays their taxes?
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