Daschle’s tax evasion woes

One year I took a few thousand dollars out of my savings in Muni bonds to pay off bills and I forgot about it at tax time. A year later, the IRS sent me a bill for $4000 and threatened to begin collection action against me until I proved that it was from my savings and that I’d made about $200 on the sale of the bonds which didn’t affect the taxes I owed that on iota. It took me three months to straighten it all out. A few years before, the DC government had done the same thing until I proved that they owed me money instead. Of course it took me months to get the check for the few dollars they owed me.

Now, Tom Daschle missed paying about $150,000 and an apology gets him off. It kind of makes me wonder WTF? Emily Yoffe in the Washington Post writes that maybe the IRS should make everyone cabinet appointees;

…maybe the IRS, in an effort to find scofflaws, should have every American nominated to a Cabinet post, given the salutary effect it seems to have on one’s memory of taxes unpaid — witness the taxable-income confession of our new Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner.

So what’s the difference between me and Tom Daschle? Washington Post’s Ceci Connelly explains;

Over three decades on Capitol Hill, including 10 years as the Senate Democratic leader, Daschle has nurtured one of the largest, most experienced talent pools in the city. His charges guided Barack Obama from his first days in the Senate, through the presidential race and into the White House. Daschle’s tentacles, moreover, stretch far beyond the agency Obama picked him to lead, reaching across the entire administration from the upper echelons of the White House to mid-level departmental positions to Obama’s kitchen cabinet.

The network is being tapped this week as Daschle and his allies scramble to explain why he did not pay more than $100,000 in back taxes, primarily for the use of a car and driver for three years. After a 75-minute closed-door meeting yesterday with the Senate Finance Committee, he emerged ashen-faced and apologetic.

So basically, they’re going to make him stew in own juices for a whole week and then confirm him when Americans have pretty much forgot that they’re going to have real life tax cheats doing the people’s business – pretty much like they’ve forgotten that Joe Biden’s much-vaunted high college grades were the product of his cheating in college.

These are the people that are going to “change” Washington. They’re the ones who are going to fight for us. Even though we can’t trust them to do the things we do everyday in our own lives, somehow it’s OK when a Democrat does it.

More on Daschle’s serial tax evasion at the home of Ms. Malkin.

UPDATE: Drudge and Breitbart report that another Obama tax cheat has withdrawn her name from consideration for the cabinet.

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