After this many tries, you'd think Obama could manage to find a competent person to weed out the tax cheats before nominating them. Maybe they're doing the best they can considering what they have to choose from?
Associated Press, March 31, 2009.
Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors" -- the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.
The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that the administration released. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.
Sebelius said she filed the amended returns as soon as the errors were discovered by an accountant she hired to scrub her taxes in preparation for her confirmation hearings. She and her husband, Gary, a federal magistrate judge in Kansas, paid a total of $7,040 in back taxes and $878 in interest to amend returns from 2005-2007.
Considering the money the IRS is recovering from Obama's nominees -- who were vetted and "cleared" of tax problems -- let's have the IRS audit every Democrat politician and collect the back taxes from all the other deadbeat taxpayers. That should help reduce the deficit.
If this were you or me, we'd be headed for jail -- not for a high paying government job!
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This has gone beyond embarrassing at this point. I'm not sure which is worse; not having a pool of candidates available who HAVEN'T cheated on their taxes, or deciding someone who HAS cheated is too indispensible not to nominate.
ReplyDeleteEarly on this crew was entertainingly inept, now that are just downright frightening.