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Taxes Aren’t So Taxing For Obama Treasury Secretary Nominee

Written by Audrie Zettick on January 13, 2009

Just got off the phone with my Dad, trying to plan when I was going to drive 2 hours back to the family business to do taxes.  You know, those pesky quarterly returns we do to file and sometimes make payment on various federal and state taxes.

 

Oh, and guess I need to do my own self-employment quarterly deposits.  I have to because I’m no different from you and countless other self-employed or small business owners. 

 

In between doing all that administrative work, I checked my twitter feed and found Michelle Malkin’s tweet on her blog post. 

 

Turns out, if I was part of the Obama administration, I could have waited to worry about those pesky taxes.

 

Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama’s choice for Treasury Secretary missed filing a whole buncha taxes from 2001 to 2004.  About $42,702 in total, of which $25,970 was paid shortly before being nominated in November, to be exact. 

 

Max Baucus (Chair of the Senate Finance Commitee) and President-Elect Obama aren’t concerned with the oversight.  It’s just “honest mistakes.”   And honest mistakes they’ve known about for weeks but did not make public.

 

So much for transparency.

 

The Obama Transition Team claimed Geithner is part of an economic team that has “the best minds in America.”

 

I’m all for forgiving “honest mistakes” on personal taxes.  But appointing someone who missed critical details time and time again is a different matter.   Maybe this is what they meant by “immediate relief” for America’s families (as stated in the Obama plan). 

 

Somehow I don’t think I’d feel “relief” but rather the wrath of the IRS if I did the same thing.