Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:21:10 AM
This post by Iowahawk
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/01/ask-the-tax-guys-1.html illustrates that the best way to avoid paying taxes, the biggest loophole if you will, is to be high ranking Democrat preferably a Obama cabinet appointee.
Let's see we have our new Treasury Secretary not knowing he needed to pay taxes.
http://www.theledger.com/article/20090131/NEWS/901310306?Title=New_Treasury_Secretary__Tax_Man_Pays_Up
High ranking NY Congressman Charlie Rangel not paying taxes on real estate rental income.
http://www.jacksonville.com/interact/blog/pontevedraman/2009-01-21/corruption_so_blatant_it_is_beyond_belief
and now Health and Human Services appointee Thomas (Mr. Rogers) Daschle owing more than 100K.
http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2009/01/31/2nd_cabinet_nominee_runs_into_tax_troubles
Then there is Caroline Kennedy and others who have tax issues of their own.
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2009/01/23/a-tax-problem.php
The new Treasury Secretary Geitner said he used TurboTax to calculate his taxes. Being a high ranking Democrat and/cabinet appointee must have been a box to check.
The most infuriating part of this is that this is the party and these are the people who want big government and higher taxes, just not for them. If this is not hypocrisy, the word is meaningless.
By the way, these are the same people who attacked Joe the Plumber, a private citizen, for owing a couple of thousand in back taxes. Instead of confronting Obama in Ohio last fall, he should have asked for a job.