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1. #1
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:02 pm, sonofdy said:

   And????

   Michelle, you know the dems don’t care about DEMOCRATIC orruption.

2. #2
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm, sonofdy said:

   orruption = corruption…

3. #3
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm, Paul Revere said:

   The RINOS will still vote for him. Never fear!

4. #4
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm, irving said:

   The White House shrugged off Kirk’s tax problems

   Is this why they think raising taxes is a small issue? Because they also think paying them is optional?

5. #5
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:09 pm, political junkie said:

   As much as I take glee in all of Obama’s nominee tax problems, they are also indicative of a extremely over complex tax code. The problems he had are ones that I could see being very common for your average businessman.

6. #6
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

   Is this why they think raising taxes is a small issue? Because they also think paying them is optional?

   I think you’re on to something there. I think we could probably pay off the deficit if we just audit all Democrats.

7. #7
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm, TooMuchTime said:

   So let’s see. If you pay, but you under-pay, you get a promotion and a cushy government job!

   Geez! I think I’ll just stop paying my taxes altogether. That means I should get a really sweet job in the public sector!

   Oh, wait. I’m just a citizen. The only job I’d get for screwing up on my taxes is license plate maker.

8. #8
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 pm, bruins90210 said:

   Ron Kirk is a garden variety leftist demagogue who ruins everything he touches, but I don’t think I would know that I had to claim a speaking fee that I donated to a university. Sometimes people do make legitimate mistakes & I’d be willing to give Kirk a pass at this point.

9. #9
   On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm, prendad said:

   Another typical day in Obama land. Lying, cheating, stealing, tax evaison, etc. Democrap language interpretation:

   “Mayor Kirk is the right person for this job and I will work to move his nomination quickly. I am confident he can successfully restore the confidence of Congress and the American people in a balanced international trade agenda,”

   Translates as:
   “OK, Obama wants this guy so ram the nomination through while downplaying all of the bad stuff and making anyone who questions us seem like they are witch hunters. We won the election and now we will do any dam think we want to and anyone who doesn’t like it is just a constitution-waving whiner who is temporarily in our way”.

10. #10
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:21 pm, hunter said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 pm, bruins90210 said:
    Ron Kirk is a garden variety leftist demagogue who ruins everything he touches, but I don’t think I would know that I had to claim a speaking fee that I donated to a university. Sometimes people do make legitimate mistakes & I’d be willing to give Kirk a pass at this point

    If you want to give him a pass, go ahead, not me. If you are involved in any work that involves more than a standard W-2, you better be paying for a professional to do your taxes. Also, it would be nice if these people were forced to pay the fines that would be levied against you or I

11. #11
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:22 pm, txvet2 said:

    Judging just from the roster of appointees to date, it would appear that a majority, or at least a significant minority, of Democrats consider paying taxes optional. No wonder they have no problem increasing them all the time.

12. #12
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:26 pm, jt3151 said:

    The problems: Kirk deducted too much for season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks and too much for tax preparation fees, and failed to report as income speaking fees that he donated to his alma mater, Austin College.

    I’m a CPA

    The season ticket deduction is commonly abused, but he should know better.

    How can you deduct too much for tax prep? You include what you paid as a Sch. A misc. deduction. He must have inflated the amount that he paid.

    Donating a speaking fee, would typically mean refusing a fee. He probably deducted the “donation” on Sch. A, without including the income. That is not an accident, or an oversight.

13. #13
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:27 pm, Ron said:

    You know, if this weren’t happening to EVERY nominee in the Obama pantheon maybe we could say the tax code is just too darn complicated…But these aren’t exactly your run of the mill taxpayers, these are the “smart” guys…maybe too smart?

14. #14
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pm, swede said:

    bruins90210 said:
    …I don’t think I would know that I had to claim a speaking fee that I donated to a university.

    Its not claiming the speaking fee, it is reporting it as income. Its pretty simple on the 1040, you must report income from ALL sources. Then, if you made a gift to the college, that’s deductible. The question is really whether he claimed the gift as a deduction without reporting the income. Thats tax fraud.

15. #15
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:38 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    …maybe too smart?

    Well, there’s two sides to that. Yes, too smart because they are trying to find ways around the code.

    But obviously so dumb that they think no one will notice the crime if they get tapped for a highly visible federal job.

    Personally, just pass the FairTax and do away with all this nonsense.

16. #16
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:38 pm, Tazed and Confused said:

    Obie is who he associates himself with… lying, cheating, scumbags…

    Just wait until Obie’s well rumored marital dalliances come forward a la Bill…

    Go ahead… tear down those missile shields mister president… may your white house (is that a racist term?) be first to go.

17. #17
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:42 pm, bradley said:

    Let’s see…incompetent? No problem. Tax cheat? No problem. Democrat? No problem. Black? Perfect. All problems immediately disappear due to overwhelming competence to be disclosed at a (much) later date and time. Maybe on Mars in the year 3,053.

18. #18
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:42 pm, MNUSMCDavid said:

    A 1987 underpayment of my taxes was not considered minor. I was threatened with garnishment , and liens before I even responded to the IRS letter. $9,000 plus is a big deal White House…. you make me sick, Obama.

19. #19
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:48 pm, wighttrasch said:

    In the light of all of this, I think it should be a pre-requisite that his Surgeon General have the clap.

20. #20
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm, swede said:

    Remember, we’re in a CRISIS!!! Kirk is the only one who can help, and we need him NOW! Sheeesh. All this would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

21. #21
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:57 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Since WHEN can you deduct season tickets to ball games?

    I have never heard of such a thing.

    I understand he’s a mayor, but how is that a justifiable expense?

22. #22
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm, One_American said:

    I think I know what baseball team Obama likes – seeing how he always roots for the Dodgers…

23. #23
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm, corona said:

    Where are the trolls when you don’t need them?

24. #24
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm, DanGrantTx said:

    Get rid of the deficit in one year! Keep nominating Democrats for cabinet posts until they have all paid their taxes.

25. #25
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:10 pm, tarpon said:

    Why break the string … How exactly would the PRAVDA media react to a Republican doing this? I know what I would say if it were the guy I voted for.

    If you are going to pass up corruption going in, what will you do down the road.

26. #26
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:10 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Trolls would only denounce a tax cheat if it was a Republican. Dems are exempt by law. Their own law.

27. #27
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:10 pm, malkin_fan said:

    Sounds like another “typical” black man.

28. #29
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:17 pm, RogerCfromSD said:

    April 15th… We ALL don’t pay…

29. #30
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 pm, John Deaux said:

    “We are confident that Mayor Kirk will be confirmed,” said White House spokesman Ben LaBolt.

    Of course you are.

30. #31
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm, Trae said:

    I think I’ll start my Obama administration employment plan this year. I need the extra cash right now.

31. #32
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:33 pm, walterc said:

    BlameAmericaLast said:

    Trolls would only denounce a tax cheat if it was a Republican.

    It’s too bad Joe the Plumber was a conservative, he could have a really great job right now.

32. #33
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm, Micheleeroo said:

    Again, this is why democrats like tax increases: they don’t pay taxes, anyway!

33. #35
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:47 pm, right_on said:

    These are the best candidates for federal positions that the Democratic Socialist Party of Obama can muster? Yet, we were harangued constantly that it was wrong to question Obama’s associations during his campaign for president.

    Why do you suppose he keeps elevating these dirt-bag maggot friends of his?

    I am beginning to question more than his associations…something’s rotten in Denmark!

34. #36
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:51 pm, backwoods conservative said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:02 pm, sonofdy said:

    And????

    Michelle, you know the dems don’t care about DEMOCRATIC orruption.

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm, sonofdy said:

    orruption = corruption…

    Since the world supposedly revolves around the “O” these days, I think you probably had it right the first time.

35. #37
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 6:33 pm, walterc said:

    BlameAmericaLast said:

    Trolls would only denounce a tax cheat if it was a Republican.

    It’s too bad Joe the Plumber was a conservative, he could have a really great job right now.

    A tax lien only shows that Joe was behind in paying his taxes, not that he was cheating on his taxes like most of Da One’s nominees seem to be.

    ECS

36. #38
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm, Southpaw said:

    I think I see part of the reason for the financial crisis we are in: People who can’t even handle the fundamental task of paying their taxes are running our government.
    We.Are.Doomed.

    Democratic campaign slogan for 2010:
    Taxes for thee, but not for me.

37. #39
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 7:43 pm, madshark said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm, sonofdy said:
    orruption = corruption…

    Actually, I think you were right the first time around. You just make it a compound word “Democraticorruption”.

    I know, it’s redundant, sort of like La Brea Tar Pits.

38. #40
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 8:00 pm, shooter said:

    OK I’ll say it again.
    BHO has NO ethical nor morally sound acquaintances or friends. Everyone he knows is just like Ayers and Wright. We hoped not but change was not in the cards for Mr. Barry Hussein Obama’s ambiguous apocryphal deceit filled life.

39. #41
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 8:47 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    deducted too much for …tax preparation fees

    No free passes for this guy – he has “people”. If he paid for tax preparation, why is it all screwed up?

40. #42
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 9:26 pm, vsatt said:

    Donating a speaking fee, would typically mean refusing a fee. He probably deducted the “donation” on Sch. A, without including the income. That is not an accident, or an oversight.

    I’m not a CPA just a lowly housewife/mother with a BA in Communications and that’s exactly what I figured happened. It’s nice to have CPA verify that, thanks bruins. My question is, if average people can spot the fraud instantly will Congress be able to or will they willingly suspend disbelief to confirm him?

41. #43
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 9:38 pm, vsatt said:

    If Bush was cutting taxes only for the evil rich then why did these people feel the need to pay even less. According to the left, they were already getting an unfair break on their share, shouldn’t they have felt compelled to at least pay what they owed? How could the left support these nominees who abused their tax-cut privileges while poorer people are losing their homes?

42. #44
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm, CJ said:

    A “goof” is a mistake with an equal chance of erroneously inflating or decreasing the person’s tax liability. I balance my checkbook each month looking for “goofs.” Sometimes those “goofs” show my account as having too much and sometimes as having too little. One would expect some “goofs” on tax returns to result in tax refunds. And yet, Democrat tax “goofs” always go one direction.

    Funny, that.

43. #46
    On March 2nd, 2009 at 11:10 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On March 2nd, 2009 at 5:57 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Since WHEN can you deduct season tickets to ball games?

    I once had a professor who was a tax accountant. That person wrote off their season tickets because they and their spouse would take their clients to games and then “talk business”.

    deducted too much for …tax preparation fees

    hmm, I need to go back and check my 1040’s. I thought my accountant said that deduction didnt exist anymore.

44. #49
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    DEMOCRATIC orruption doesn’t bother me in the least. It is Democrats that bothers me.
    ‘Orruption-corruption, whatever, they are still Democrats. The Party of the Big Tent as in Maxine-Socialist Supreme-Race Monger Delux-Waters and KKK Klansman Robert Byrd. What a pair.

    Only six more weeks and we all get to prove our patriotism to VP Biden and write that check to the IRS. Feel the Luv. Can Kalifornians write off the tax refund they don’t get from the state? How about Kansas?
    —
    Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns

45. #51
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 8:47 am, WarEagle82 said:

    The Obama administration and the IRS obviously have a “progressive scale” when it comes to unpaid taxes or under reported income.

    If this rocket scientist former mayor failed to pay nearly $10,000 in taxes that means he failed to report $35,000 or $40,000 in income over those three years.

    The IRS hounds me when THEY make a mistake processing my tax forms! How does the IRS instantly figure out there is a mistake on MY tax return yet all these rich leftists get away with these gross violations for years!

    Wanna bet he would never have “discovered” these “minor problems” had he not been annointed by Obamessiah? Kind of makes me wonder whose tax problems the IRS is ignoring. There must be a special office for this down on 1111 Constitution Avenue. Maybe that’s what the IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers are there for…

46. #52
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 am, lottadawg said:

    I think the tax code is completely political by an unguided design.
    It probably started when “The Revanooers” found out they could use the tax code against gangsters and whiskey runners better than regular police work.
    This overly bloated tax code contains so many regulations that it gives the IRS the ammo so that they can pick and choose who they want to slam.
    I really enjoy seeing the Obama crowd get back what has been going on for years.
    It does highlight something that a meaningful change to would be a good thing.
    It also exposes the unwritten perks of higher office to what it is. Double standard.

    The fair tax anyone!

47. #53
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    Umm… isn’t this called

    TAX EVASION?

    There sure seem to be a lot of tax cheats among those democrats. Obama’s tripping over them. If this were considered a random sample, the survey results might indicate 70% of elected Dems cheat on their taxes.

48. #54
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am, JDinTX said:

    Ron Kirk is a tax cheat. He never forgot anything. He just thinks he is better than anyone else. Don’t be surprised if he uses the race card for his troubles. He was one of the worst mayors in the history of Dallas.

49. #55
    On March 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm, cheapseat said:

    maybe obambi will put some of those 300 new irs agents he’s hiring to audit democrat elected officials. seems he would reap a big payoff if this is any indication. then go get those new york, hollywood and miami liberals with swiss accounts, because everyone knows new york, miami, and los angeles are bastions of right wing tax cheats. i read the vast bulk of this first 250 released by ubs are primarily from those enclaves of conservatism.