“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter” – Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507.
I’m sure he meant for this to be applicable only to ordinary citizens, and not important people like himself. He should have clarified.
Wendy McElroy writes:
This is the same Daschle for whom the IRS has forgiven all fines and penalties for the $128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 in interest for tax “errors” in his returns for 2005 and 2007. Why? Because Daschle apologized. It didn’t matter that it took him months to pay up after being informed of the “errors” or that he disclosed the “oversights” only a few days before his Senate confirmation hearing to become Secretary of Health and Human Services. He apologized.
Of course this is the second Obama appointee/nominee that has trouble paying his taxes. But the Timothy Geitner debacle was a little more amusing since he’s now the head of the IRS.
This is becoming a joke….and it became three this morning with tax problems not just two. At least this one knows your supose to bow out when caught, and this is only $900. Daschle is $128k and he thinks because he said “I’m sorry” he should be ok….give us a break. Maybe I shouldn’t pay my taxes and then say I’m sorry….
Our politicatians all need to be eraced, removed, and we should start with a clean slate. Barny Frank still has a job and he defended freddie and Fannie till the end. Now he’s the guy incharge of getting the economey out of this mess? Good grief how stupid can we be?????? the gov’t is running the biggest ponzi scheam of all in Social Security…anyone born before 1945 wins big, 1945 – 1957 wins a little, and everyone else gets hosed as they were the “last ones on the airplane.”
you’re absolutely right. the government operates on a ponzi scheme, and someday the fraud will be exposed to everyone.