Report: Daschle Delayed Tax Revelation"Errors?" Daschle's "errors" makes Geithner's $34,000 "innocent mistake" look downright amateurish by comparison.
Former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle waited nearly a month after being nominated to be secretary of health and human services before informing President Obama that he had not paid years of back taxes, the Washington Post reports.
On Jan. 2, Daschle paid $140,000 in back taxes and interest to the U.S. Treasury and about two days later informed the White House and the Senate Finance Committee, the White House confirmed to the Post.
Obama's transition team discovered in December that $15,000 of the $276,000 in charitable contributions claimed by Daschle lacked proper documentation. But Daschle waited until after amended returns were filed before he mentioned the larger tax liability.
Daschle spokeswoman Jenny Backus said he had known since June 208 that his luxury car and driver provided by wealthy Democratic donor, longtime friend and business associate Leo Hindery might be taxable, but never expected the amount to be such a "jaw-dropping" sum and "thought it was being taken care of" by his accountant.
Hindery founded InterMedia Partners, a private equity firm, in 1988. Daschle was paid $1 million annually for his consulting services, the Senate Finance Committee said.
Daschle had an unreported consulting income of $88,333, in 2007.
Bloomberg reported that Backus said Daschle was "embarrassed and disappointed" by what had occurred.
"Senator Daschle is embarrassed and disappointed by these errors," Backus said. "He apologized for his part in these errors and expressed his deep regret that the committee had to devote time to them."
But we shouldnt be so hard on them. From a layman's perspective, I'd say they were just playing by the rules. You know, the ones that elitists have set for themselves, above and apart from the rules you and I must live by. A former Queen once said, "We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." Certainly Daschle and Geithner are Big People, no? They deserve our respect, not simple-minded judgement. Elitists provide a valuable service to America -- after all, without them, who would tell us what to do and how to behave?
'Tis a shame, though... most of us are not Big People. Remember Joe the Plumber? He's classic Little People. After his personal government records were illegally leaked to the media by an Obamunist true-believer, he was "outed" as a tax cheat and skewered by the leftoids for failing to pay (are you sitting down?) a whopping total of $1,182.92 in back taxes -- that's eleven HUNDRED! With an "H"!!! -- an amount which I doubt would pay a single day's interest on Daschle's debt to the IRS.
We've learned a valuable lesson here: If you're going to cheat on your taxes, do it big. A $1,200 debt gets you vilified by leftoid hacks; $34,000 in tax evasion lets you run the Treasury; and $140,000 buys you the Health and Human Services Dept. Such a deal!
HopeChange™, fellow Little People.
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