Comments on: Geithner, “tax goofs,” and the go-along GOP

By: Government Watch: Obama File and Reflections « Lighthouse Patriot Journal

Government Watch: Obama File and Reflections « Lighthouse Patriot Journal — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:08:53 +0000

[...] person he chose for Secretary of the Treasury (an important pick during this economic crisis) owed $43,000 in unpaid taxes. That amount is unclear whether it included penalties and interest rates charged. I could [...]

By: “Just Words?” Hope, Change and a New Era of Responsibility « Conservingtruth

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:47:14 +0000

[...] Senate Finance Committee revealed this week that Geithner failed to pay some $43,000 in federal self-employment taxes for four separate years – and only coughed up $26,000 of that [...]

By: Tom Daschle’s Back! « Riggword Weblog

Tom Daschle’s Back! « Riggword Weblog — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:28:49 +0000

[...] Crapo, Orrin Hatch, John Cornyn, Olympia Snowe and John Ensign all determined that Geithner’s “tax goofs” worth $43,000 did not disqualify him from the job of overseeing everyone else’s taxes. (More from [...]

By: BlogWonks » Blog Archive » Oh good, Daschle is a tax cheat too!

BlogWonks » Blog Archive » Oh good, Daschle is a tax cheat too! — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:54:52 +0000

[...] it wasn’t bad enough for Mr. Hope and Change to appoint a Treasury Secretary who intentionally didn’t pay their taxes. Now we find that Tom Daschle, the man Obama appointed to help lead us down the primrose path to [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » What will the Bend Over Republicans do with tax cheat Tom Daschle?

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:06:13 +0000

By: Geithner’s Rap Sheet « FactReal

Geithner’s Rap Sheet « FactReal — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:10:33 +0000

[...] he was considered self-employed and was responsible for paying his self-employment taxes ○ paid $26,000 of that debt after Obama tapped him as his choice for Treasury Secretary ● Kept tax reimbursements of taxes he did not pay ○ he kept the IMF’s tax allowances [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Giving in to Geithner: The B.O. Republicans bow down Updated

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:25:30 +0000

[...] did I tell ya? Screw up, move up. It’s the Washington way. Posted in: Tim Geithner Send to a Friend Printer Friendly [...]

By: There's My Two Cents

There's My Two Cents — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:01:12 +0000

Geithner Up For Vote…

The Senate Finance Committee has now approved the appointment of Timothy Geithner as the Obamessiah’s Treasury Secretary, which means a vote by the full Senate is coming in the next few days. Here’s why it’s a bad move…

By: Applying the “What If?” Test | BobMaistros.com

Applying the “What If?” Test | BobMaistros.com — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:38:13 +0000

[...] penalty or interest AND get appointed Treasury Secretary and overseer of the IRS with — as Michelle Malkin points out — virtually no opposition on either side of the [...]

By: JustAThought

JustAThought — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:51:55 +0000

Hey hey hey! What’s the big surprise or problem here? Just Chicago politics as usual. Get used to this kind of thing folks. We’re in for four years or so of just this kind of crap.

By: jds13

jds13 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:40:13 +0000

As tax errors go this one actually was understandable. He got a W-2 from which no employment taxes were withheld. He had to pay not only his share (which as I understand it he did) but also the employer’s share. It’s a unique situation in the tax code… Basically, even though he got a W-2, he should have treated it as a 1099 and filed a Schedule C. TurboTax doesn’t warn you about this. Accountants Geithner hired missed this twice.

The real problem is that when his error was caught by the IRS, he didn’t voluntarily go back and fix all the previous years’ returns, with interest. This failure to make a good faith effort to clear it up as soon as the problem emerged is what disqualifies Geithner from the job at Treasury.

The really real problem is that the business of Congress is selling favors under the tax code, and this has created a 65,000 page monstrosity that no one understands and that makes any kind of planning or sensible economic activity impossible. It will only gets worse.

By: Savage24

Savage24 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:15:34 +0000

This guy couldn’t get a lower interest loan from his own bank. God I love that bunch in Washington.

By: ButAsForMe! » Geithner, “tax goofs,” and the go-along GOP

ButAsForMe! » Geithner, “tax goofs,” and the go-along GOP — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:13:39 +0000

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By: MacEamonn

MacEamonn — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:56:18 +0000

I am of course not implying by the following that anyone should fail to pay their taxes.

Possible letter to the IRS

To whom it may concern,

Please cease all withholding of Federal Income, Social Security, and Medicare Taxes from my pay effect immediately. I will also no longer report my income to you. I will be happy to resume our normal relationship (as well as pay all back taxes) as soon as the President of the United States appoints me as a member of his cabinet. I would especially like to be Secretary of (indicate your preferred department here).

Thank you,

(Your Name Here)

By: Lee Hazel

Lee Hazel — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:18:09 +0000

A Criminal Conspiracy

Michelle, it couldn’t be said better. This guy is a creep.

We are very shortly going to be living under the auspices of the Greatest Criminal Conspiracy in world history. The gang of “conspirators” consist of the Obama Transition Team, his Cabinet appointees, background characters such as George Soros, and the bulk of our United States Congress.

This Cabal is aided and abetted by a totally corrupt court system and equally corrupt state and municipal Governments.

We The People have just demonstrated that we are incapable of governing ourselves. We have listened to the idiots in the media and from the maniacal left and voted for even more of the likes of Frank, Schumer , Murtha, Reid ,Pelosi, McCain (almost), Dodd, Biden, Obama, et. al.

If you think me harsh, first answer the question: where did over $8Trillion of American wealth go. Not only that but they are preparing to add $2Trillion or more to that figure. This totals together to approximately $33,000.00 per Man, woman, and Child in the United States.

This money is being stolen from the people and is being done against the express wishes of the people. They have repeatedly been against these “bailouts” when ever asked. No gang of crooks in history has ever come anywhere close to achieving this level of outright thievery.

PC is Thought Control
LEE