How Many Tax Cheats Does One Administration Need?
Nietzche is Dead ^ | 2 feb 09 | foutsc
Now we find out that HHS Secretary nominee Tom Daschle failed to pay $128,000 in taxes related to limousine services provided by companies he was lobbying for (oops, I've just been informed he was not lobbying. He was merely helping businesses squeeze money out of the federal government. My mistake).
He will be regulating these same companies in his new job, but that's another story. We need to stay focused on the noble Obama White House ethics code, not the the swiss cheese farce it has become. Anyway Daschle was not a lobbyist, he was a "Strategic Advisor."
But it's all good: Daschle is a former senator and a Democrat, and he paid the back taxes once he knew he had no choice if he wanted the cabinet position.
I have lived in the third-world, and this is what third-world politics looks like. An arrogant political class, corrupted by money, burdens the people with onerous catalogs of legislation and taxes while blithely exempting themselves.
George Orwell was right. The pigs have taken over, and We The People learn that some animals are more equal than others.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-daschle1-2009feb01,0,4970462.story http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/us/politics/01daschle.html?ref=us
Nietzche is Dead ^ | 2 feb 09 | foutsc
Now we find out that HHS Secretary nominee Tom Daschle failed to pay $128,000 in taxes related to limousine services provided by companies he was lobbying for (oops, I've just been informed he was not lobbying. He was merely helping businesses squeeze money out of the federal government. My mistake).
He will be regulating these same companies in his new job, but that's another story. We need to stay focused on the noble Obama White House ethics code, not the the swiss cheese farce it has become. Anyway Daschle was not a lobbyist, he was a "Strategic Advisor."
But it's all good: Daschle is a former senator and a Democrat, and he paid the back taxes once he knew he had no choice if he wanted the cabinet position.
I have lived in the third-world, and this is what third-world politics looks like. An arrogant political class, corrupted by money, burdens the people with onerous catalogs of legislation and taxes while blithely exempting themselves.
George Orwell was right. The pigs have taken over, and We The People learn that some animals are more equal than others.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-daschle1-2009feb01,0,4970462.story http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/us/politics/01daschle.html?ref=us