At least he is consistent. Birds of a feather....

He is surrounded by "quality" people.

Before carbonunit is nominated for a cabinet post, or any post for that matter, I must confess that I have purchased items on the internet and not paid the state sales tax on them. If I am nominated, then I will pay up, per recent custom.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

Let's keep that a secret.
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in the Kitchen. I guess he can go back and cheat some more on his taxes.
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Read On.. What type of people do we have running this place.. would you hire this guy?

The Heritage Foundation

During the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, President Bill Clinton mastered the art of burying bad news: release everything late on Friday afternoon and hope everyone in Washington forgets about it by Monday. Only one week into his presidency and it is clear that President Barack Obama is equally adept at this skill. Late Friday night, Obama's Health and Human Services secretary nominee Tom Daschle told reporters that he paid over $140,000 in back taxes and interest to the IRS on January 2, of this year. The $128,000 in unreported income came from the $353,552 he received in consulting fees and the use of a car service from a wealthy Democratic donor in just the three years since Daschle left the Senate.

But Daschle's trouble paying taxes on income he received from wealthy Democratic donors is just the tip of the iceberg. As the New York Times reports this morning, Daschle's post-Senate career, which allowed Daschle "to make $5 million and live a lavish lifestyle by dint of his name" provides "a new window into how Washington works." Much of Daschle's lucre has come from his work for the firm Alston & Bird where "Mr. Daschle has operated in the gap between the popular understanding and legal definition of a lobbyist." While there, Daschle has "consulted" for clients with business before the federal government including two Indian tribes, a firm with heavy stakes in ethanol subsidies, and another with key issues before the Federal Aviation Administration. Not to mention Daschle's work for the supposedly non-proft firm EduCap which allows some students to borrow up to $50,000 a year, sometimes at 18 percent effective interest rates.

But these links between big government and big business are not the most worrisome. Daschle will after all be in charge of health policy, and that is where his income from big business is the most troubling. The Health Industry Distributors Association, which successfully lobbied to kill Medicare's first ever competitive bidding program for health care supplies this summer, paid Daschle $14,000 to deliver one speech at their conference last year. And Daschle was also paid for his policy advice by UnitedHealth, a giant insurance company which receives a third of its revenue from HHS regulated sales of Medicare Advantage and Medicare supplement and prescription drug plans.

Daschle's nomination as Secretary of HHS comes at a crucial time for health care in this country. For more than a decade, the federal government has been gaining more and more control over the total number of health care dollars spent in this country. Today, the private sector spends only 53.7% of all health care dollars, while state and federal government cut the checks for the rest. The combination of the recently passed SCHIP expansion, and the further expansion of eligibility under Medicaid will certainly push government spending on health care well past 50%. But this is only half of the story. If we include all of the state and federal regulations that dictate private spending, the government already controls over 60% of the health care sector.

Daschle and the health care sector are only part of the big business/big government nexus that is killing our economy. The Obama administration is also using the power of the Wall Street bailout purse strings to dictate how cars are made in this country and how financial firms should operate. Just as the New Deal failed to restore economic growth because it tried to marry big government planning with big business profits, so will Obama's new New Deal. Daschle's story is just one window into what the failure will look like.

strongly supports this tax cheat. I guess he doesn't consider this to be a "big deal".

Gee, I've seen commercials where companies are offering their services to help out the "average" citizen that is having problems with the IRS. Perhaps the President will tell the new Secretary of the Treasury - a tax cheat himself and fifth in the line of the presidential succession - to suspend any further tax court proceedings at least until his cabinet is picked.
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Barry Again Fails to File Tax Forms

D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) has again failed to file his tax returns.

The former District mayor has not submitted federal or city tax forms for 2007 -- the second instance in which he has not filed required returns while on probation for tax offenses, said two sources familiar with the situation.

Obama probably has Marion in mind to head the "White House Office of National Drug Control Policy", no doubt.

He is just another fine democrat, struggling to rip off the country.

These people are my heros, yet you pick on them so....

Can you imagine how hard it must be to fill out those forms while smoking crack? Besides, he might not know what year it is. He might think he's current.

Why?
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I read the link you posted and IMO Huston is grasping at straws. I realize that Huston is looking for something to criticize Obama with but this really strikes me as weak. I was pleased with the choice of Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff . His job is to knock heads among the WH staff. His not being bipartisan is irrelevant to that position. In fact, I'm kinda looking forward to some fireworks if and when the new SecState starts following her on agenda. If that happens, I think you'll change your mind about Rahm and will find him very entertaining.

As for Henry Rivera, he hasn't been a lobbyist for eight years. Seems like a bit of a stretch to claim that his appointment breaks a promise not to hire lobbyist. Eight years is a long time. Particularly the last eight.

In fact, I'm kinda looking forward to some fireworks if and when the new SecState starts following her on agenda. If that happens, I think you'll change your mind about Rahm and will find him very entertaining.

I'm with you. This scenario could rival any drama drummed up on daytime TV. Hillary as Sec 'O' State and Biden as VP... each with extremely large egos and personal agendas. You have to wonder what is muttered under their breaths as they force themselves to become subordinate to that new upstart President Obama and Rahm. The reality is that this could very well be a non-issue. But you have to admit that the elements lingering in the air could form into the 'Perfect Storm' for providing us with some very entertaining viewing. If it busts loose let's get together and throw some Butter Lovers Act Pop Corn into the microwave and watch the show. I'll even melt up some extra butter and salt to drench it down good with.

In this linked post I talked of the irony of a tax cheat criticizing tax cheats.

What struck me in your posts, outside of you posting to your own post, which people do from time to time, was that you had this criticism of the presidential candidates:

"I was astonished by the lack of scholarship and thoughtfulness on the part of either Presidential candidates in 2008."

All while bringing this scholarship to the fore:

"Say what you will about Bush, But Obama has proven to me to nothing more than wolf in sheeps clothing. "

"The issues have been reduced to sound bites and promises that are broken on the votes have been counted."

"Obama and his crew are showing their true colors, the law doesn't appy to them, only us. But then again, right after his election he started breaking promiss even before he was sworn in.."

If you are going to criticize scholarship, bring your high-dollar spell-checker and grammar tester along for good measure. Good Sunday to you. Time to make the doughnuts.

I tip my hat to you.

barry had the audacity to go on television and call for accountability from bank executives, with Geithner sitting right next to him.

If it wasn't such a pathetic display of hypocrisy from the cic, it would be laughable.

Daschle was used to riding limo and with a driver--no tax due.
Geithner was one of 100,000 who paid no nanny tax, so why should he? No that was someone else, wasn't it?

TRUTH IS, GEITHNER AND DASCHLE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DROP OUT OR BE FIRED BY OBAMA!!!

We do not need anymore government high ranking employees who are to solve illegalities when they think the laws do not apply to them.

Same here locally for those dudes who pay no Mexicans tax for construction or housekeeping---and all those pea pickers Georgia has who are illegal every spring summer and fall!

Sonny has kept putting anything off until the crops are in---they never get in.

Employers can now check in two minutes if someone is legal---even those supplied by temp agencies and contractors--and MUST do so!

We can't complain about them and then refuse to throw them out!!!

Is a shameless tax cheat. The example has been set folks. Shall we play 'Follow The Leader'?

The dude paid up and is all square now, and the same with ol' Tom what's-his-name. Why, you could drag a net through any tax lawyer's office and catch a much more likely bunch.

"I can't wait until tomorrow, because I become more lovable every day."

I'll remember that next time I get busted for speeding through a school zone. I'll just tell the officer to wait right there while I go back and retrace my route going the proper speed. If he gives me any lip I'll tell him Obama, Carbon and Diva said so.

Were talking about Geithner bilking the gumament out of 5 years of taxes. Plllleeeeezzzzzeee.....

Our former regional Federal Reserve chief and now our new IRS head gestapo agent.

This guy is in now, and if his troubles cause him to have a little humility, so much the better for getting a tough job done with less distractions. It is so hard to staff heaven when hell is all you have for a hiring hall.

"I can't wait until tomorrow, because I become more lovable every day."

You are a better man than this. This guy is an incompetent and corrupt boob who is supposed to lead us out this economic mess. He oversaw the Feds largest banking region which encompassed the biggest banks in the country of which several under his watchful eye are bankrupt. Then this butt wipe tax cheating scoflaw bilks the treasury out 5 years worth of taxes and you sum it up as a "humility lesson'?

Listen to youself man.....

It is so hard to staff heaven when hell is all you have for a hiring hall.

And this is acceptable to you and your party in what way? Because he's a Democrat Obama pick? That sounds like an excuse a Dachau resident would have given after being questioned about the ongoings taking place in his local death camp.

OMG we are doomed.

In the town I grew up in, there were two kinds of guys, those that got caught and those that did not. The current financial world is the same. I used a technique in my youth, when I was doing custom built projects for well to do clients, to keep them off my back. I would leave something undone or a little bit off, in an easy place to fix. The clients always would look until they found something, and if I did not leave something easy to fix, they would find something wrong where there was nothing wrong. I believe the Obama team is doing the same thing. I knew he was smart, and now I am thinking he is smarter than I figured.

"I can't wait until tomorrow, because I become more lovable every day."

I suspect those clients called you back just so they could see your pretty face one more time...

that is a possibility I should have considered I suppose

"I can't wait until tomorrow, because I become more lovable every day."

These are not smart things, or thinking---they are deceitful things by cynical people.

However you are right about people wanting just a little more all of the time to make them feel good.

That is why they buy stuff 70% off! Off of what price, I say.

Ten % off of 1 thousand is better than 70% off of 30$!
Better yet most goods now NEVER sell for the original price ticket--they are marked OFF when racked! I know that for a fact.

Also, those "going out of business, 70% off sales are farces for the most part. The 70% off price is still too high!
Plus they get rid of "junk" that has never nor will ever sell at most any price!.

If we can haggle, we are happy and can assume (ass---u---me)we got a bargain that we didn't. Makes good party talk!

I believe the Obama team is doing the same thing. I knew he was smart, and now I am thinking he is smarter than I figured.

My God...listen to yourself man. [Eyes wide open and jaw hanging down] Now I'm beginning to see how Hitler got away with his atrocities. I am stunned to hear you of all people say this crap Carb.

Some of them are mountains, some are indeed molehills. This issue is a molehill. Funny you should bring up the H man. The goose stepping troops I watched as a young child scared me immensely, and I wondered then how people could give up their free thinking to become like that. Worry not for me Git, I am not in lock step, and I am not in agreement, I am being an observer of hard ball politics, and my free thinking is intact.
"I can't wait until tomorrow, because I become more lovable every day."

Is the BACKGROUND of the "whistle blowers"

This is so funny I have to post a segment of the USA Today article on the BIGGEST TAX DELINQUENTS IN THE COUNTRY!

"Dick Morris: The former political adviser to Bill Clinton is a Fox News analyst. The IRS filed a $1.5 million tax lien against him in 2003. The state of Connecticut reports Morris owes $452,367 in back taxes and penalties.

According to the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (DRS), Morris owed the state $443,915 as of November 1, 2007, making him the state's sixth-biggest tax delinquent at that time. He was also listed as one of Connecticut's 10 biggest tax delinquents as of October 1, 2007, and April 1, 2007. Morris is not cited by DRS on its recent list of "The Top 100 Delinquent Income Taxpayer Accounts" in Connecticut as of November 1, 2008."

I know. I know. Dick Morris doesn't have a job in our federal government, but from a journalistic standpoint, and where Fox "News" is concerned, I use the term "journalistic" loosely, why in the world would you use a guy that owes hundreds of thousands more than the person he is criticizing to deliver this story? That's funny right there!

Cheers

Same ole crap. Make the Republicans shuck their cheats and scumbags while justifying your own. Come on already....

Even Clinton dumped Zoe Baird.

As far as Dick Morris goes... Is he a piece of human debris or what? Any time I see his lips move the channel changes.

As far as Geithner and Daschle goes.... It comes as no surprise that these scumbags get excused according to the DNC double standard playbook.

Twist it however you guys choose. It just ain't right.

I think this should absolutely disqualify Daschle. I can't think of a plausible excuse either for his actions or for keeping him.

It reminds me of that old Steve Martin skit about how to get a million dollars and not pay taxes: first, get a million dollars, then don't pay taxes. And when the IRS asks you about it say: "I forgot!"

As far as I'm concerned this is an ethics test for Obama. I'm hoping they pass.

If this is an ethics test for Barry, it would appear to be a double failure....

"I am running to tell the lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over. They have not funded my campaign. They won't work in my White House."

As Homer would say, "doh" number 1

"WASHINGTON -- President Obama "absolutely" stands by Tom Daschle's nomination to be secretary of health and human services even though the former Senate majority leader dodged paying more than $128,000 in taxes until he after he was nominated.

The president gave the one word answer Monday while in a meeting with Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas. Obama Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner was confirmed last week despite revelations he failed to pay employer taxes in IRS filings between 2001 and 2004."

As Homer would say, "doh" number 2

So, first he shouldn't have ever been put forward for nomination by Barry, and then once he was and the "mistake" was uncovered.....he gets "absolute" support.

Steeeee-rike two......

Tom Daschle: “Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. ” Congressional Record, May 7, 1998

It is unacceptable and it crosses party lines. I disagree with Obama on many policies. But I kept hoping deep inside that he would be a man of moral integrity. I'm hoping Obama passes too. There are many policies that I desire to see fail for freedom's sake. But I do wish him success in being an honorable man. But, reality is that he is apart of that Chicago machine.

My faith in our leadership has taken many blows over the years. For example I value alot of Newt's ideology. I know in my heart he is right on many issues. Yet I can no longer support him and I view him about the way I do Dick Morris and many others.

Happy Sunday to you. What in the world am I doing up this late?

I find it the height of hypocrisy for people like Wrangle, Daschle and Geithner to write and enforce the tax laws when they are themselves cheats..
If you or I or anyone that post here failed to pay $30k+ in taxes we woiuld be hit with penalties, interest and garnishments ... It just goes to show they do not represent us.. There is them and then there is us.. and we are screwed.
This is Obama's test if he fails this one.. then I quit.. I would have given him a chance, but if he can not do what is right on this one.. then how can I trust him to do it when it really counts.. say when thousands of American lives at stake...

Unfortunately, finding a person of money (we have never had a poor one) and experience to be a Cabinet Secretary is extremely hard to find who hasn't cheated on taxes or used illegal labor!

There are simply scores of millions of them. Taxes are seen by many if not most people as something to get away from paying or to claim false deductions. They are hated since they are deducted and not spent!
That is why a 30-40% sales tax is wanted by some, one only loses it one buy at a time, and then there is the stolen black market w/o sales taxes!

I'll bet Mr. Cathy and his accountants could't stand a forensic audit!

Still, in this case Obama should fire both these "gentlemen!"

I was not suggesting that those guys were right. I just think it is not all that bad, relative to the other goings on. Now if they turn out to be bums, throw them out. By the way, ain't you proud of me for staying out of the Rush Limbaugh debate?

"I can't wait until tomorrow, because I become more lovable every day."

What goes almost goes unnoticed amid this controversy is the fact that he presided over the failure of some of the largest banking institutions in the world – institutions he was charged with overseeing and regulating as head of the New York region of the Federal Reserve Bank.

But.... I'm guessing this is no big deal to you either.

Regarding Rush; So you guys are going to silence him once and for all. How surpising....

Git! Brother! Blood of my Oklahoman blood! I made this post directly to you on January 22nd! How did you forget me in 8 days, bro? I am clearly speaking of the journalistic idiocy of using someone who owed almost a half million in unpaid taxes to criticize a dude that owed 30 something thousand. How I feel about Geithner should be no secret to you; especially since I addressed the letter to you, licked the stamp, delivered it, and got a confirmation reply from someone using Gitreal's login.

Cheers

I'm inching my way to 50. Does that count for anything in regards to my short term memory loss? Well..... I stand corrected my friend. I also acknowledge Jeff C sharing the same sentiment. So... I still have a little mental credibility left.

I do appreciate you pointing that out about Morris. I didn't know that. I'll add that to the list of things that make me wanna hurl when I hear that weasel speak.

Cheers....

I pay every cent of taxes that I owe, unlike Daschle and Geithner.

Both of these guys would have said the same thing, because they thought they had paid every cent of taxes they owed. Then they had a conversation with someone else (like perhaps you ought to have), and things turned out differently. I suspect Daschle had an accountant, and Geithner responded to all the questions TurboTax had asked of him.

When's the last time you remitted the Georgia use tax you owed on a so-called sales-tax-free internet purchase, Fred? (Don't lie to me!)