Forget Your Politics : Too Ironic not to laugh

[rowjimmy21]

How sad, isn't there any honest politicians left?


What I am saying, honest and politician in the same sentence.

 

[jackoroe]

Not to make excuses for this tax dodging scum, but the tax system is really ridiculously complex. A nice flat tax system would be so much simpler. Everybody pays a fixed percentage and that's it. Problem solved!

 

[Lostlover]

Not to make excuses for this tax dodging scum, but the tax system is really ridiculously complex. A nice flat tax system would be so much simpler. Everybody pays a fixed percentage and that's it. Problem solved!

A note to the spamming OP:
You know the GOP's hero aka Joe the Plumber was a tax dodging scum. And he was allowed to campaign for the ticket and talk about where and who he didn't want his tax money to go to.

That's irony.

PS: I like flat tax rates. It's fair.

 

[Lostlover]

^^ Forget Your Politics

for a second

Shoulda posted it in Hot Topics.

 

[Lostlover]

why? is this not a "Current Event"

check the forum you're in LL

Ask the mods to move this thread into Hot Topics and out of the "Current events and Politics" forum and I'll redact my previous posts.

 

[letme]

Um, seems to me it was, you know, the Republicans controlled the Presidency from January 2001 until now. If the tax code bears any political impramateur, it is of the Republican brand.

Facts. They still matter. Dontchaknow.

So now it is GWB's fault for the 16,000 pages of tax codes ?

Is there anything that is not his fault.?

Edit******* also is GWB @Fault that

Geithner also didn't realize a housekeeper he paid in 2004 and 2005 did not have current employment documentation as an immigrant for the final three months she worked for him,

 

[naked gent]

Not to make excuses for this tax dodging scum, but the tax system is really ridiculously complex. A nice flat tax system would be so much simpler. Everybody pays a fixed percentage and that's it. Problem solved!

While the tax system is too complex if the estimated tax on income is too difficult for Geithner he's not qualified to be Treasury Secretary.

Speaking as someone who will be writing his estimated tax to the IRS on thursday I feel like a fool for consistently paying them.

 

[NickCole]

Obama's defending this guy.

Obama stood by Geithner yesterday, issuing a statement through a spokesman that he is "the right person to help lead our economic recovery . . . He's dedicated his career to our country and served with honor, intelligence, and distinction. That service should not be tarnished by honest mistakes."

The man Obama wants as Treasury Secretary, who oversees the IRS, not only "forgot" to pay taxes once and was called on it, it came up a second time. And Obama's transition team were the ones who uncovered it, yet still Obama nominated him:

Two years of unpaid taxes were discovered during a 2006 audit by the Internal Revenue Service, and another two years of unpaid taxes were found during a background investigation by Obama's transition team before Geithner was nominated in late November. If confirmed, Geithner would oversee Obama's massive economic recovery package and lead a department that includes the IRS.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/01/14/treasury_pick_failed_to_pay_taxes/


Two years might be an honest mistake; another two years, discovered two years later, sounds like a fool me once scenario.

This is the man Obama's trusting with the economic recovery and the IRS.

If confirmed, Geithner would oversee Obama's massive economic recovery package and lead a department that includes the IRS.

And people are saying he'll probably be confirmed.

Not that I'm surprised. But boy oh boy.

 

[NickCole]

I never thought it was, but it's sure not something to laugh about now.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Finance Committee for a second time postponed a hearing for Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner following revelations about his failure to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes while working for the International Monetary Fund, among other tax infractions. ...

As a result, President-elect Barack Obama will take office without having a Treasury secretary installed amid the biggest financial crisis in decades. Mr. Geithner's hearing is now scheduled for next Wednesday.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123194884833281695.html

It's more of that acceptance of dishonesty --that it's okay in some instances as long as you get what you want-- that led Obama to nominate Geithner in the first place. His transition team discovered two of the years Geithner hadn't paid taxes and knew about the other two years. And Obama chose him anyway. There are consequences. Would have been good if these lessons were learned as a result of the past eight years but it looks like some need another brick house to fall on us.

 

[NickCole]

^ Harry Reid also said a Blago appointee would never be a Senator.

 

[NickCole]

If this were only about the undocumented worker or whatever that part of the story is, I wouldn't care.

But the whole point of this guys's value is related to finances and there's evidence right in front of us that he's dishonest when it comes to finances. His expertise, which nobody disputes, is valuable but we're seeing with this economic crisis what happens when guys with great financial expertise are also dishonest. And dishonesty is not something people turn on and off like a light switch; it's part of one's characater and decision making.

Ugh. He'll be confirmed.

It's like we're on a big boat that's badly damaged and we've got great tools but people keep using them to drill holes in the bottom.

 

[Kulindahr]

Not to make excuses for this tax dodging scum, but the tax system is really ridiculously complex. A nice flat tax system would be so much simpler. Everybody pays a fixed percentage and that's it. Problem solved!

At least make a flat minimum tax for the top two brackets.

Um, seems to me it was, you know, the Republicans controlled the Presidency from January 2001 until now. If the tax code bears any political impramateur, it is of the Republican brand.

Facts. They still matter. Dontchaknow.

Apparently only the ones that fit your view.
The tax code has been metastasizing for decades, under presidents of both brands. Publicans and Drats have fueled its malignant growth both separately and together.

It's like we're on a big boat that's badly damaged and we've got great tools but people keep using them to drill holes in the bottom.

I'd say it's more like they're dismantling the structure belowdecks to build nice places up above, and proclaiming how nice it is as the hull leaks.