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- Dzue, on 04/01/2009, -6/+62What is this a qualification?!!
- AlaskaLoneWolf, on 04/01/2009, -7/+55Why am I not even slightly surprised?
- GhostInAShell, on 04/01/2009, -10/+56How many Democrat accountants are failures?
- EMFK, on 04/01/2009, -7/+50Well, at least it wasn't intentional. :-)
- 2612, on 04/01/2009, -7/+46Why not vote for higher taxes, if you never intend on paying them?
- schwagman, on 04/01/2009, -5/+43Enough already, at the executive leadership level, the ratio of honest public servants to ***** who skirt their tax obligation is astounding. This is a horrible example that the "best of the best" is portraying.
Note to future politicians;
1) If you are thinking of cheating on your taxes, don't.
2) If you are to stupid to understand your taxes, hire someone who does.
3) Pay your tax bill when due. - Claverhouse, on 04/01/2009, -7/+44Every time a Democrat nominee finally pays his or her taxes, an angel gets his wings.
- GeorgeFord, on 04/01/2009, -1/+30Kathleen Sebelius is a Democrat and there were no accusations of Gregg having not paid his taxes.
- Hercules, on 04/01/2009, -6/+33This is just another indication we need a flat/consumption based tax because it's too complicated for even government employees and their accountants to figure out properly.
Plus it's more fair, and encourages saving. - davebots, on 04/01/2009, -5/+31Obama said ***** you to the IRS and told them he is going to hire everyone who owes back taxes to get that money back.
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -1/+24It is beginning to look that way, yes.
- fury420, on 04/02/2009, -5/+24FTA:
"In her letter to the Finance Committee, Sebelius said she and her husband hired a certified public accountant to review their tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007. "
"Regarding charitable contributions of more than $250, she said she could not locate acknowledgment letters from the organizations on three out of 49 donations made in those three years. Sebelius eliminated the deductions, she said."
"Sebelius said she sold her home in Topeka, Kan., for an amount less than the outstanding balance on the mortgage. She continued paying off the loan and the interest for which they continued to claim a deduction. "
“Another loan for home improvements was treated similarly,” she wrote. “These errors were corrected in our amended returns.”
"With the business expenses, Sebelius said she discovered “insufficient documentation required to claim some of our tax deductions for business expenses.” "
how is this a big deal at all? how many people would honestly come up squeaky clean under a detailed tax audit going back many years? - enantiodromia, on 04/02/2009, -6/+25the truth is, if any of you complainers here actually made as much as the "tax cheaters" you are spending so much of your phony outrage energy on, and/or had the complex tax issues which arise when you own property in multiple states, have some private and some government income, own companies which own other companies, and personally employ several people, you would have tax "problems" too.
it's not like these people are sitting in their underwear filling out forms on Turbo Tax on April 13th, which is probably how most people "do" their taxes, saying to themselves "I'm totally going to cheat on my taxes, because an extra $7,000 in my checking account is worth losing my prominent and respected career over".
the differences between you and "them", besides the fact that you never made anything of yourself and your major achievement was purchasing and hooking up your flat screen TV, is that most of your tax returns can be done on the IRS 1040-EZ form, and, not one single person in the entire country gives a crap about "random Digger's tax return from 2006", where as these people have brigades of accountants dedicated to finding flaws in their paper work for the single reason of denying them a nomination.
so there you have it: your taxes are easy, because your lives are simple. - Blinker1315, on 04/01/2009, -2/+21Rudely put, but it is strange Obama's team couldn't vet potential nominees better on the basics, like taxes.
- inactive, on 04/01/2009, -2/+18jayjayjoni... Did you really not know Sebelius is a Democrat?
- gopfan, on 04/02/2009, -6/+22That's why democrats don't mind raising taxes, they don't pay them.
- iNONYMOUS, on 04/01/2009, -2/+17uhhhh....oops?
- GeorgeTirebiter, on 04/02/2009, -2/+15Only 7k? This must be an April Fool's joke.
- twinklyJesus, on 04/01/2009, -1/+14Jayjayjoni:
It appears you have a bit of egg on your face, or was that breakfast? - twinklyJesus, on 04/01/2009, -6/+18Change....
- radiofrequency, on 04/01/2009, -3/+15She's a multi-millionaire. You think she does her own taxes?
She hires somebody to cheat on her behalf. - adml_shake, on 04/02/2009, -3/+14If anything I says something about our tax codes. They are too ***** complicated and need some serious revamping.
- AmericanAngle, on 04/01/2009, -18/+29Obama's appointments are either corrupt or incompetent....the sad truth is they are both.
Chicago politics on steroids makes it to Washington. - DaviDTC, on 04/01/2009, -2/+12So the people who do pay taxes make up for what you aren't paying for.
- rjseals, on 04/02/2009, -1/+11Isn't it a requirement that Obama appointees have tax trouble?
- youareretarded, on 04/02/2009, -7/+16lol
Some of you guys are just plain retarded!
"In her letter to the Finance Committee, Sebelius said she and her husband hired a certified public accountant to review their tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007.
“That evaluation revealed unintentional errors, which we immediately corrected by filing amended returns,” Sebelius wrote.
She paid $7,040 in additional taxes and $878 in interest, Sebelius said. " - daisymeme, on 04/01/2009, -7/+15Worse than Sebilius' lack of honesty as a Governor of Kansas, are the people who are accepting this kind of stuff as suitable ethics for canidates seeking membership in Obamaland.
- necoates, on 04/02/2009, -2/+10If this is intentional or not, doesn't the rash of this at every level prove that our tax code has become way to complicated? I'm not defending Obama's picks by any means, but I bet any two different CPA's will come up with two different numbers for taxes 95% of the time.
- twinklyJesus, on 04/01/2009, -5/+13My, can I borrow your rose-colored glasses? Or are those stupidity goggles?
- enantiodromia, on 04/02/2009, -2/+10http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/31/sebelius- ...
- mrteleprompter, on 04/02/2009, -2/+9Fair? Maybe to the people still working, but that is the only group you are thinking about. The tax you are suggesting would absolutely rape the savings of the elderly. You exalt yourself as "fair", but you only offer benefits to one group.
- Serinus, on 04/02/2009, -0/+7He's trolling, imo. He knows.
- inactive, on 04/02/2009, -0/+7Obama's vetter also did not pay his taxes.
http://gawker.com/5161837/obamas-chief-vetter-has- ...
Who vets the vetter? - gfryesc, on 04/02/2009, -4/+11Sure, no penalties here. How come none of these 'unintentional errors' ever result in a candidate overpaying instead of underpaying? For some reason it never goes that way. I wish the IRS were so understanding with regular citizens. It pays to know the taxman personally I guess. Change you can parse.
now if you'll excuse me I think I'll go invest in some teleprompter companies. - digdug2020, on 04/02/2009, -2/+8I don't understand why people think that $7000 is significant for millionaires. How easy would it be for one of us to make a $50 mistake on our own taxes, which is probably a realistic number, percentage wise; plus they have ***** more tax forms and itemizations than us normal peons.
- jiggawatt, on 04/02/2009, -0/+6Or, the vetting process was getting them to pay their back taxes?
- PopcornDave, on 04/02/2009, -1/+7That seems like too convenient an excuse. She's ultimately responsible for those returns. By the very fact that she signs them, she's indicating all information is correct.
Now it's entirely possible her accountant made the error or her accountant is being thrown under the bus because she or her husband ***** up. We'll never know, but I wonder of the average person would be treated as generously by the IRS if they had 4 (consecutive?) years worth of tax ***** ups. - enantiodromia, on 04/02/2009, -2/+8so let me get this straight:
you think that Governor of Kansas only has $7,000 in Federal Tax responsibility per year, and that she wasn't going to pay any of it until she got "caught"?
even though it sounds like " a lot" to you, $7,000 is probably a drop in the bucket of her total tax burden - Barackalypse, on 04/02/2009, -4/+10I think this is all part of Obama's plan to increase tax revenues by nominating every tax cheat in the country for a cabinet position so that they pay their back taxes!
- roho76, on 04/02/2009, -3/+9I wonder when he will start asking his appointees if they have tax problems or if he is going to continue the surprise method.
- pingveno, on 04/02/2009, -1/+7What I really want to know is: how much are these people paying in taxes? If someone has paid a few million dollars in taxes I have no problem with a few thousand dollars worth of errors. Daschle's $100,000, well, that is a bit too much.
- waggdogg, on 04/02/2009, -0/+6The IRS should look into this. Great way to collect back taxes!
- decoy26517, on 04/02/2009, -4/+10Yes, thank god she hired someone to fix her taxes for her once she tried to get appointed to a high ranking federal office and people had questioned her on it... Heck, if she wasn't even in the running she may have saved almost $8k! Hell I guess hiring that expensive CPA back in 2005, 2006 and 2007 to correctly file their taxes was just to much. Whole lot easier to just lie about your investments and leave out important documents...
- twinklyJesus, on 04/01/2009, -1/+7I just threw up on my shoes a little bit
and, again. Make it stop. - SillyRabbits, on 04/02/2009, -4/+9As they say, it's no wonder Democrats don't think taxes are a big deal - they simply don't bother paying them anyway.
- inactive, on 04/02/2009, -6/+11What do you expect from hypocrite wingnuts.
- williepepper, on 04/01/2009, -9/+14In case you haven't noticed, Genius, he's been a miserable failure, having his approval rating plummet faster than any other president in history. That's a miserable failure.
Also, he's had a record number of people appointed who haven't paid their taxes.
Get your head out of your butt. - offrdbandit, on 04/02/2009, -1/+6Interesting comment given the left's sentiment that it's the "patriotic duty" of the rich to subsidize the incompetent.
- bluto36, on 04/01/2009, -0/+5sure if you find grandma mary kate and karen carpenter hot
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