Crikey: Labor Secy nominee Solis’s husband finally pays up 16-year-old tax liens; Update: Senate session postponed
This administration has no shame.
No shame at all.
USA Today reports that the Obama White House sheepishly disclosed today that Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis’s hubby has just paid up 16-year-old tax liens…yesterday. The disclosure comes just hours before the nomination vote. Hope, Change, Transparency!
The husband of President Obama’s Labor secretary nominee paid about $6,400 Wednesday to settle tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years against his business, the Obama administration told USA TODAY this afternoon.
The disclosure came shortly before a 2 p.m. meeting of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which is scheduled to vote on Rep. Hilda Solis’ nomination as labor secretary.
Los Angeles County records showed 15 outstanding state and county tax liens against Sam Sayyad and his auto repair business, totaling $7,630. Two other liens worth $981 were released in 1999 after Sayyad repaid the taxes owed, according to county records.
Solis’ financial disclosures list Sayyad’s business, Sam’s Foreign and Domestic Auto Center, as one of the couple’s main assets, worth between $50,000 and $100,000. The disclosure form Solis filed after her nomination also lists bank accounts containing between $250,000 and $500,000.
Solis and Sayyad were unaware of the liens until USA TODAY asked about them Tuesday, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said. He said Sayyad paid about $6,400 to Los Angeles County on Wednesday to settle the liens, but he plans to appeal.
Now, compare the treatment Solis and her hubby will get for his 15 outstanding liens compared to how Joe Wurzelbacher’s one lien was splashed all over the front pages and nightly news.
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Update: Senate session postponed (hat tip: Instapundit)…
“Today’s executive session was postponed to allow members additional time to review the documentation submitted in support of Representative Solis’s nomination to serve in the important position of Labor Secretary,” read a joint statement issued by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), the panel’s chairman, and Mike Enzi (Wyoming), the committee’s ranking Republican. “There are no holds on her nomination and members on both sides of the aisle remain committed to giving her nomination the fair and thorough consideration that she deserves. We will continue to work together to move this nomination forward as soon as possible.”
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Shame is a human emotion. Socialist Progressive Democrats have no shame because they are less than human.
16 YEARS??? What we they locked away in some freaking cave somewhere???
How does it take you 16 YEARS to pay 6400 dollars???
AAAAMAZING..
I have to wonder at this point how many of the 54% are feeling remorse.
BULLCHIPS. The gooberment goes to great lengths to help you not ignore your taxes. You are given plenty of notice BEFORE they place a lien on you.
Of course, (D) = deaf too.
Soon 100% of that 54% that smokes.
Hey Chap! That’s your cue to correct him… Or do you only correct UP?
We are all such chumps for paying our taxes. How many more dems are tax cheats? Who needs a stimulous….we just need the tax cheats to pay up.
No…shame is an emotion tied to a fixed set of morals.
Socialist Progressive Democrats and liberals believe morals are relative and open to personal interpretation, therefore if you justify X behavior as being personally morally acceptable, you don’t have to feel shame.
Only bitter, gun-clinging, religious conservatives feel shame!
Apparently LA County was unaware of the tax lien too. How did 16 years go by without the repair joint going to tax sale?
On what grounds? He was unaware? Doh! Stupid me. They’re Democrats. Common sense does not apply.
Sigh…I guess I have to be consistent…
55% Percent!!!
55!!!
This is beyond absurd… is there any of b. hussein’s nominees that don’t have serious issues?
Oh yeah, the Republican.
I think someone needs to document all the issues with hussein’s nominees and make a commercial to run on TV and Cable. That’s the only way to get this info passed the drooling MSM.
What all this makes clear is that b. hussein is SO corrupt and SO used to corruption, that even when he found out about all this during the vetting, it didn’t even make him blink. Nominee after nominee he just brushed it all off and thought it no big deal.
The AUDACITY of Corruption.
This is great! The more people Obama tries to get into the government, the more back taxes are collected. Maby we can pay for the Porkulus bill if he hires enough people….
It’s really starting to look like failure to pay your taxes is a job requirement for working in the Obama administration.
Waiting for the MSM to even mention Solis’ name…
And how many people’s homes and businesses have been
takenstolen from them for owing much less money to our bloated bureaucracy?He has to be doing this no purpose, right?
Don’t any of you people understand that the bolsheviks can’t be bothered with things like taxes? They have important work to do. Like making sure everybody else pays as much in taxes as is humanly possible!
I honestly do not consider a tax lien of $6,400 a “serious” issue. Can any real estate attorney out there tell me how many times you close on a property that had to have old liens cleared up? Sometimes, an owner may not even be aware a lien has been put on. And states are often less than agressive about pursuing them.
I would feel the same way if it was a Republican.
Unless it was Palin. I really hate her, ’cause she’s a powerful conservative woman.
Doesn’t the IRS have a list of people who have tax liens and another list of people who simply owe back taxes? Geithner is sure to have a copy of his ilk sitting on his desk, does he not? If so, Obama should just start at the top (nominate the person who owes the MOST taxes first) and work his way down the list. This would be a more organized way fo the neighborhood organizer to collect on back taxes. This willy nilly choosing of cabinet members isn’t garnering enough tax revenue to pay for the Generational Theft Act of 2009! go for the big guys first, O!!
Democrats don’t pay taxes … The taxes are for the little people.
Wasn’t one of our trolls beating the JTP tax lien drum pretty hard?
I expect they’ll be on shortly to give Solis the same treatment.
I’ve got time. I’ll wait….
It seems they are always unaware.What if they are unaware in the jobs they are to do?
Solis strongly supported using California taxpayer’s money to provide full welfare benefist to illegals, and served as the treasurer of a pro-union lobbying group while serving in the House, and introducing “card check” bills written for her by the lobbying group.
Her husband’s unpaid taxes are small potatoes to the rest of her shady ethics and Marxist stink.
Well, that’s understandable. Dem men are askeeered of good-looking women who know how to shoot, gut and skin a moose. And can give interviews while turkey’s heads are being hacked off and not scream ‘Ewwwwwww, like groooossssss!’ like little girls (as lefty womyn would).
Also Chap – there’s more important issues with Solis than her husband’s tax junk. Like her illegal lobbying that MM blogged about.
On February 5th, 2009 at 2:23 pm, Joy said:
Unless it was Palin. I really hate her, ’cause she’s a powerful conservative woman.
Well, that’s understandable. Dem men are askeeered of good-looking women who know how to shoot, gut and skin a moose. And can give interviews while turkey’s heads are being hacked off and not scream ‘Ewwwwwww, like groooossssss!’ like little girls (as lefty womyn would).
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Well said – liberal boys (not men) want liberal girls (not women).
Better to be single, conservative and successful than to be with a boy who really wants a girly-girl (although Palin doesn’t have that problem; Todd ain’t “askeered” of her, which shows his manly-manness).
Fair enough. I thought you were referring specifically to the tax issue.
Is it wrong to object to a nominee based solely on their ridiculous first name?
Hilda?
BINGO!!
Yes. Our way of asking someone out on a date is to have a friend of a friend of a friend pass her a note asking her to check this box if “you like me.”
At what point does this become a pattern?
In a state so deep in financial trouble that they are holding people’s tax returns, $6400 would probably help a few folks out. In the grand scheme of things, $6400 probably isn’t much. Why won’t the state go after some of these old liens to help patch holes in their cash flow? If this guy has half a million in various accounts, a little pressure might get the liens paid. Again, common sense.
If anyone owes back taxes and the IRS comes knocking, change your party affiliation and apply for a job in the BO administration. You’ll pay the taxes, but avoid the jail time (not to mention a new job that you don’t need to be qualified for).
On February 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pm, chapoutier said:
Well said – liberal boys (not men) want liberal girls (not women).
Yes. Our way of asking someone out on a date is to have a friend of a friend of a friend pass her a note asking her to check this box if “you like me.”
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Ah, but even amongst liberals, there is a distinction between “boys” and “men” and “girls” and “women”. If you can handle a person of the opposite sex who might disagree with you and not expect them to change/pretend to be something they are not for you, then you are still a real “man” or “woman”.
“Boys” and “girls”, however, put their fingers in their ears and go “lalalalala” whenever someone tries to express an opposing view. If you don’t do that, you probably have the backbone to ask for a date yourself face-to-face.
This has become beyond absurd. It makes me wonder how many politicians, lobbyists and Washington insiders have unresolved issues with the IRS.
I honestly do not consider a tax lien of $6,400 a “serious” issue. Can any real estate attorney out there tell me how many times you close on a property that had to have old liens cleared up? Sometimes, an owner may not even be aware a lien has been put on. And states are often less than agressive about pursuing them.
Of course you don’t see it as a problem. Honesty never was a democrat party strong point. You only demand that of republicans, and it is pretty convenient that you say you would feel the same if it were a republican. Nice pretty words that probably mean nothing in the world of reality.
But beyond all that what have to you got to say about the ridiculousness of raising taxes, when your party won’t even pay them?
We actually might actually end up having a surplus if these people actually paid their taxes. No wonder they want a stimulus package – they weren’t planning on paying their taxes anyway.
You don’t consider it a serious issue? YOU try not taking care of a tax lien and see how quick they come after you. Unless, of course, you’re a DEM politician.
I don’t think this tax issue (standing alone) is that bad heck I had a problem just like Joe Wurzelbacher’s. I didn’t know because I divorced and moved and the ex ignored it and I got stuck with it, HOWEVER, the people in goverment should be held to a higher standard AND this just looks really really bad considering there are sooo many of them NOT PAYING! You do have to wonder how many more there are…. AND how many we will never know because they aren’t being vetted but work for us in the gov. I say when we pay our taxes we should make our checks payable to “Tax Cheaters”.
Anyone watching Robert Gibbs? He’s nothing but a horses ass. He doesn’t answer any questions and whatever he does say is sarcastic.
Great representative you picked there, Odrama.
First, off, I never said it wasn’t a problem. Just not a terribly serious one. States can and do put liens on property without ever informing the taxpayer. Or sometimes, the taxpayer forgets and it never comes up again until they go to sell (or apparently before they are appointed to Obama’s cabinet).
This is nothing like Geithner, whom by the way I came out against here, where one would have to basically suspend belief to think that he was not aware of his tax obligations. THAT was a serious problem and should have sunk his nomination.
And as far as me saying I would feel the same thing about a Republican, you can choose to take me at my word or not. But that’s the super duper thing about the internet. Feel free to bookmark this page, so that you can hold me to it next time something similar occurs to a Republican?
There sure are a on a lot
of “unpatriotic” people being brought into the BHO admin.!
Does “Crazy Uncle” Joe (Biden) know about this!?!?!?
That’s right ~ laws only apply to conservatives, like Joe the Plumber.
Chap said:
Ha! I knew it! But doesn’t it also contain a questionaire to determine if you’re a member of the correct leftist groups? And unless you check ‘all of the above’ they check the ‘no, I hate you, you vile Repugnican! You should stop breathing!!’?
They have between $250 – $500K in their bank accounts, yet they didn’t want to pay the $6,400 or so tax bill. Until, of course, she was nominated for a post with the Obama administration. Would they have paid this otherwise?
2nd problem: They didn’t “know” about the liens? Really…sorry, but I can’t believe that one. The state sends out incessant letters regarding tax issues, especially if they’re owed money. I’m sure they got plenty of notices in the mail.
Oh yes. Democrats want to tax the “rich” only because they don’t like paying taxes themselves. Hypocrites.
You clearly have no idea how liberals interact. We “hook up” first. If a girl will hook up with you within a few ours of meeting you at a bar, you can be pretty sure she is either liberal or a repressed catholic.
THEN we ask them out on a date.
What, out of curiousity would all of you think of someone that ran a business that was not in good standing with the State, due to unpaid fees or unfiled reports?
Would that person’s credibility be shot, in your opinion?
Again I ask, didn’t that giant questionnaire have a single question about unpaid taxes? Or liens held by the taxpaying public?
Starting to look like they need to vet the vetters.
On February 5th, 2009 at 3:01 pm, chapoutier said:
But doesn’t it also contain a questionaire to determine if you’re a member of the correct leftist groups?
You clearly have no idea how liberals interact. We “hook up” first. If a girl will hook up with you within a few ours of meeting you at a bar, you can be pretty sure she is either liberal or a repressed catholic.
THEN we ask them out on a date.
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Ha, I knew it – the portrayal of liberal women in the “I only sleep with Democrats” ad was all true!
Sarc/
On February 5th, 2009 at 3:05 pm, chapoutier said:
What, out of curiousity would all of you think of someone that ran a business that was not in good standing with the State, due to unpaid fees or unfiled reports?
Would that person’s credibility be shot, in your opinion?
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If they “owned up” to it and did what they could to put it right, then no.
If you’re referring to Joe the Plumber, he was never nominated for a cabinet position by McCain, and I have my doubts that he would have been had McCain won. The question he asked then-candidate Obama about his future under an Obama presidency was legit, IMHO.
Isn’t this what Solis’s husband is doing?
I’m not.
On February 5th, 2009 at 3:15 pm, chapoutier said:
If they “owned up” to it and did what they could to put it right, then no.
Isn’t this what Solis’s husband is doing?
If you’re referring to Joe the Plumber
I’m not.
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Yes, he is. There seem to be a lot of cabinet nominees, however, who are having to “own up” to their unpaid taxes AFTER they’ve been nominated (or withdraw themselves, as in the case with Daschle (sp?)).
And apologies for misinterpreting your post a bit.
Well now he is. There are lots of ways when running a business to miss some paperwork, or file something late or whatever, make it right and go on. But tax lien for years? Hmmm. And tons of Dems apparently not paying taxes – when higher taxes on others is the reason they have chosen to go on living?
I like this transparency stuff! You can see right through them! (munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
It all depends on WHAT the tax-lien was…I sold a propeerty that had a lien on it for sewer work; I was current on the yearly payments but, the tax lien was there till paid off. We need more facts to determine this issue. The lien was almost $9000 when I sold; which was paid, by me, out of the proceeds. The new property owner got the improvements with nothing out-of-pocket.
BTW, my llien was filed years earlier…On a 30 year bill on sewer work, not unusual.
Is this much different than a bank having a lien on property you are paying on ?
Just, asking…
On February 5th, 2009 at 3:30 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
I like this transparency stuff! You can see right through them! (munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
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Indeed, stock up on your munchies; this should be good for many more hours of entertainment.
Smoke ‘em, while you can afford ‘em
After 2 wks in power it is patently obvious that the Obamastration just doesn’t have a clue re running the Republic.
Fixed it for ‘ya
They don’t see it as a Republic, and never had any intention of running it that way.
Juat when I think that BO can’t look any more incompetant…
People have tax issues that may take a while to resolve.
However, 15 different liens over 16 years raises some eyebrows.
We’re not talking about a lot of money, so I would question the intent to evade. I would, however, like to know who at the state or local level didn’t follow up and why they still have a job.
If something chap says strikes you as something eagle, ILMC, RSS, or edelweiss would say, trying imagining as /sarc tag as chap does when he’s writing things like the Palin comment.
I’m just saying that if I were, hypothetically, a vocal and well known critic of politial appointees who seemed to have trouble meeting their obligations to state or federal governments, I would want to make sure that all my ducks are in a row on such matters.
I agree, Chapoutier.
I’ve often wondered if I should employ a /nonsarc tag.
Foprget the tax liens, because that is a parking ticket compared to her total package. Hilda Solis is BY FAR the most radical and unacceptable of Obama’s appointees. She is REALLY bad news. She is a card check fanatic and has been a pro-labor radical all her career.
In her confirmation hearings she has been vague, evasive, and in some cases refused to answer pointed questions about her opinions on policy.
You should pick your fights that you are willing to die on the hill for. Getting her appointment disapproved is one of those fights.
Let’s do the math…$7630 divided by 15 liens ? Ummm…not a math major…About $510 dollars each. Hmmm…Much worse than Daschle. Sounds like sewer or water improvement liens.
Hey, anyone that gets paid for lobbying herself? terminal chutzpah…
On February 5th, 2009 at 3:47 pm, chapoutier said:
And apologies for misinterpreting your post a bit.
I’m just saying that if I were, hypothetically, a vocal and well known critic of politial appointees who seemed to have trouble meeting their obligations to state or federal governments, I would want to make sure that all my ducks are in a row on such matters.
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Agreed; no one who has tax “issues” (intentional or otherwise) has any business calling out someone else for the same thing.
It would look a bit more kosher if these candidates had discovered their issues on their own and dealt with them before being nominated by Pres Obama.
If only, Ted Kennedy had enough brain cells left to demand an ethics committee ruling on her…
Besides the obvious fact that evidently no single Democrat can pay his or her taxes, I wish to point out the OTHER obvious problem with this nomination.
If Madame Solis’s hubby OWNS companies that makes him an EXPLOITER of the masses! How could a capitalist exploiter ever lead the Department of Labor after spending her whole life living off the “surplus value” of the oppressed masses?
This has become a fiasco after just two weeks. Is he going to nominate Charles Manson for Surgeon General next?
Well, for pity sake, STOP WORKING TOGETHER! After the lobbying issue, what is there to think about or debate???
As MM says, “God save us from bi-partisanship.”
Manson hasn’t voted Democrat in soooo long…
Bi-partisan definition : Two parties drilling holes in a rowboat.
Does this not bring into question President Obama’s judgement? How many times was that question raised during the campaign? How long will it take for the American people to wake up and realize, “my God what have we done”?
M
I do this all the time. But its usually because I have a particularly bad hangover.
See?
Better brands and less sugar!
On February 5th, 2009 at 4:14 pm, chapoutier said:
How long will it take for the American people to wake up and realize, “my God what have we done”?
I do this all the time. But its usually because I have a particularly bad hangover.
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Assuming, of course, you can remember what you’ve done at all.
I HOPE the new administration won’t leave me with only CHANGE in my already
SEE-THROUGHTRANSPARENT portfolio!Is this a case of “great minds think alike”? Oh no, couldn’t be, Chap was one of the thinkers!
Actually, I think we should all look at the bright side here. We can all take a special tax deduction of whatever amount suits us based on the way the obamanites treat the tax system.
Why not game things and see what happens? After all, it is likely that the IRS won’t be able to check everyone and if you are audited you just say you made a mistake like Daschle, Geithner, Solis, Richardson, etc., etc. etc. etc., etc. —–. If you beat the 3 year window, you are scott free. If you don’t beat it, wear a dirty skunk smelling suit and have at it with some already oppressed agent.
What really bugs me is for decades I have been more than diligent in paying taxes. I use a CPA just to make sure I get things as right as humanly possible. Now I see that I have been just stupid.
Obama will use these as an excuse to simplify the tax code.
Line 10: What did you make?
Line 20: Send it in.
If you look closer, you will see I am the only one who actually said the line. Frostrt was just quoting me in that peculiar way he quotes things.
So your comment, unfortunately, went from “good zinger” to “somewhat ironic.”
Maybe if Obama and his
cronies, er, trusted advisors read this link it will spare them additional embarrassment.I guess not everybody got the announcement about the 16th amendment back in 1913.
On February 5th, 2009 at 4:44 pm, chapoutier said:
Is this a case of “great minds think alike”? Oh no, couldn’t be, Chap was one of the thinkers!
If you look closer, you will see I am the only one who actually said the line. Frostrt was just quoting me in that peculiar way he quotes things.
So your comment, unfortunately, went from “good zinger” to “somewhat ironic.”
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“Peculiar” . . . Yes, I’ll cop to that. Wouldn’t want me any other way!’
Also, FYI, I’m a “she”.
But, hey, how do you know unless I say?
One of the hazards of communicating on the Internet.
Surely Team Obama vetted these tax cheats before they nominated them? ‘Cuz it would look pretty stoopid of them to send up someone for these important administrative positions if they were not aware of their dishonesty.
Wouldn’t it?
These are the people who tried to say Sarah Palin was not adequately vetted.
Hypocrisy is a cornerstone of the liberal religion.
I am so often wrong about these.
I would have bet anything Mookie was a guy.
On February 5th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, chapoutier said:
Also, FYI, I’m a “she”.
But, hey, how do you know unless I say?
One of the hazards of communicating on the Internet.
I am so often wrong about these.
I would have bet anything Mookie was a guy.
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Sometimes you can guess from the way someone writes, sometimes you can’t.
Anyhoo, no big.
Let there be no doubt that WarEagle82 is a ferocious raptor! Male in all aspects, except for the fact that he likes to bake scones.
On February 5th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, WarEagle82 said:
Let there be no doubt that WarEagle82 is a ferocious raptor! Male in all aspects, except for the fact that he likes to bake scones.
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NEVER think that being a good cook makes you any less of a “ferocious raptor”.
You are a lawyer. I will assume you are lying until the facts prove otherwise.