WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama called disclosures about Treasury choice Timothy Geithner's tax problems an embarrassment Wednesday but said Geithner's "innocent mistake" shouldn't keep him from confirmation as the new administration's top official in urgent efforts to revive the economy.Think about this for a minute... A congressman who violates the very laws he writes, and a tax cheat in charge of the IRS. If this isn't government decadence at it's finest, I don't know what is.The revelations that Geithner had failed to pay $34,000 in taxes several years ago derailed Senate Democrats' plans to speed him to confirmation by Inauguration Day, but senators in both parties said the information was unlikely to torpedo his chances in the end.
This is why nobody trusts the government or the empty suits who run this country like a personal fief, extracting the fruits of our labor and doling out favors. This is an oligarchy; but at least it's an equal-opportunity one, where persons of all races, creeds, ethnicities, and religions can rape the taxpayer and pillage public and private property for personal gain and pleasure.
Joe the Plumber was discredited by Democrats and their press operatives when some reporter dug up the tidbit that he was delinquent on some county taxes by a few hundred dollars. If he had just gone big like Geithner, he could have qualified for a cabinet post.
How about Charles Manson for FBI chief?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/opinion/15thu1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
7 comments:
The point isn't that he didn't know he was supposed to pay self-employment taxes...oops! The point is a money and finance guy who doesn't know he has to pay them is like an auto mechanic who doesn't know he needs to change his oil. How freaking incompetant can you get.
Incompetant: Not qualified, inadequate or unsuited to a particular purpose, devoid of those qualities requisite for effective conduct.
Sure, why not put him in charge of the Treasury? He can eliminate the national debt with a simple mathematical error! I'm all for it.
~Finntann~
He can eliminate the national debt with a simple mathematical error!
LOL!!!
I don't understand the idea that since the gov't is immoral, or incompotent, we should trust our lives to private business.
I would much rather have a bad politician incharge than a good CEO. But that's just me. I suppose that's where we part ways.
I'm not okay with bad gov't, or bureaucrats putting their feet up on their desks, but the alternative doesn't necessarily seem much better.
Canadian Pragmatist,
What an incredible statement. I can't quite wrap my head around what you wrote. The level of envy in you for the success of other people must be off the charts. I vote your next surgery be performed by a surgeon who thinks just like you.
SteveH
CP: the thing is, it's not a single CEO in charge...it's millions of them trying to gain your business. govt gains your business at the point of a gun.
regarding geithner...it's not likely that he didn't know he should have been paying fica taxes. but still, it is possible he didn't know (tax laws really are quite confusing)...PRIOR TO THE INITIAL IRS AUDIT (which exposed the latter 2 years). once the irs audited him though there is absolutely no chance in the world he didn't know he should have also paid for the first 2 years. but he didn't pay the taxes for those years until it came out in the vetting process. he's a simple tax cheat, and should be ineligible for treasury secretary.
Russell wrote: the thing is, it's not a single CEO in charge...it's millions of them trying to gain your business. govt gains your business at the point of a gun.
Amen. Caveat emptor, without mommy government protecting us all at every turn produces a Darwinian effect on society, and the bad business shrivel and die.
A smart, dedicated Nietzschean should be able to understand that.
Do you honestly expect me to believe that someone with a B.A from Dartmouth and and M.A from John Hopkins... who then worked for Kissinger and Associates, and the US Treasury prior to working for the IMF... didn't know he had to pay taxes? Despite having signed a worksheet acknowledging he had an obligation to pay Social Security (Wash. Post), and who filled out, signed, and submitted an annual tax allowance request with the IMF requesting their portion (half) of his tax obligation (WSJ). Didn't know?
Come on...how dumb can you think the American public is?
~Finntann~
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