> If you take any user on HN, and send an 2 or 3 IRS accountants pouring over their tax records for 3 or 4 weeks, they will turn up something. So tax issues I can see, if they were mistakes, and the person owns up to them and pays the back due taxes.
While true, that's not the sort of mistakes that Obama's people have made.
The treasury secretary signed a form every year that he worked for the IMF acknowledging that he was being given extra pay for certain taxes. He cashed the check as well. He then didn't bother to pay the taxes.
This is the sort of thing that "little people" go to jail over. It's a firing offense in the IRS, one of the Treasury agencies.
And, this didn't come out after he was nominated. It came out during the "vet". (When he was told that it was an issue, he paid, but penalties were waived. Think that you'd get that sort of treatment.)
Does anyone think that the current treasury secretary is the only person who could do that job as well? I'm pretty sure that there's someone who is tax-clean who could do at least as well.
"Little people" do not go to jail over not paying taxes. In rare cases, "little people" get audited and pay back taxes, interest, and (sometimes) penalties. To go to jail over taxes, you have to use illegal means to conceal your liability. Geithner didn't do that.
While true, that's not the sort of mistakes that Obama's people have made.
The treasury secretary signed a form every year that he worked for the IMF acknowledging that he was being given extra pay for certain taxes. He cashed the check as well. He then didn't bother to pay the taxes.
This is the sort of thing that "little people" go to jail over. It's a firing offense in the IRS, one of the Treasury agencies.
And, this didn't come out after he was nominated. It came out during the "vet". (When he was told that it was an issue, he paid, but penalties were waived. Think that you'd get that sort of treatment.)
Does anyone think that the current treasury secretary is the only person who could do that job as well? I'm pretty sure that there's someone who is tax-clean who could do at least as well.