Is this change we can believe in? Apparently he forgot to declare his limo driver. I’m not sure what bothers me more — that he’s a tax cheat or that he has a limo driver. Why does an ex-senator have a limo driver? Maybe Obama should punt this guy?
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Let’s remember that the it is very common to first nominate the guy you really don’t want, let the opposition shoot him down, and then nominate the guy you actually want.
Sounds pretty dumb, but that’s the way it seems to work.
Here’s the link Marc, from my post this am on your other story. Can’t find a link above.
http://foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/30/white-house-daschle-tax-issues-shouldnt-bar-cabinet-confirmation/
Thanks for the credit. ROFL
He is the original developer of Obamas presidential run.Just after he lost his senate seat in 2004 he sat down with him and planned the campaign.They will have to catch him eating puppies to get Obama to dump him.
What this says, more than anything else, is just how broken our tax code system is. I doubt, under careful scrutiny, that few have NOT made an error at one time or another.
# 4 tom said, “I doubt, under careful scrutiny, that few have NOT made an error at one time or another.”
LOL!
A $100K error that he “discovered” during the confirmation process. Read the story. The guy is a felon.
#1 – Your theory falls apart when Congress does anything Obama wants. Daschle will get in after they conduct their “due diligence”.
#5 – Exactly right Paddy-O. Change we can believe in, huh?
#6 Since most on this site only care about the law when as it applies to the other side, this will either be a quiet thread or, lots of people posting attacking the story or trying to obfuscate the issue of the guy being a felon & Obama appointing 2 now to his cabinet.
Tom Daschle is and always was weak. Toss him and get a Dem with balls. Rahm Emmanuel and Nancy Pelosi both have big brass ones, there must be a few more out there.
Total Tally: $140,000+ in back taxes.
Then —
The Finance Committee staff still is reviewing whether travel and entertainment services provided Tom and Linda Daschle by EduCap, Inc., Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation, Academy Achievement, and Loan to Learn should be reported as income. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Daschle made use of the jet belonging to EduCap, a non-profit student loan organization.
This guy is a special interest magnet.
Dump him.
What’s everybody complaining about. Daschle appears to have the quality that Obama is looking for in his cabinet appointments…a devious criminal mind!
How do you get 140 thousand in taxes owed on a driver? How much does this chauffeur make?
Obama signed an executive order that when a new contractor takes over a federal contract, they have to keep the workers from the previous contractor. Obama should have to do this for his own Cabinet as well.
#11, They found more money he didn’t claim.
http://tinyurl.com/c65ukr
Obama has started a precedent. If Timothy Geitner can get away with it, why not Tom Daschle.
According to Politico, it is just a bit more than the limo driver….
Tom Daschle, tapped to be President Obama’s health czar, was paid more than $200,000 by the health-care industry in the past two years, according to documents obtained by Politico.
Err, ummm Mr. President Obama, wouldn’t this be classified as being a lobbyist?
#14. If Obama really seats these criminals then he is no better.
He has a limo driver because the crooks elected to office saw to it that they are well taken care off.
It’s really a shame when Fox News is the only source that seems to be digging into these. I guess raising taxes is not so bad if you don’t have to pay them.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s going to be a long and expensive four years.
Tom Daschle attended the Ted Kennedy seminar on drinking and driving where he learned that if you drink to excess on multiple occasions for years on end it is far cheaper to hire a chauffeur than to have your car fished out of a lake or river.
As far as tax evasion, that doesn’t seem to be a top priority in the Obama administration.
Where are all the usual suspects on this blog who scream about prosecuting gov’t officials who break the law?
a democrat that actually pays the taxes that they so often raise is rarer than a jackalope..
#19 Once the leader anoints his cabinet they are divinely forgiven for all wrong doing. There for this will be a non-story for all the followers.
Cow-Paddy,
I’m laughing at you. You made several errors, again.
A felony requires intent. There was no intent to avoid taxes in this case and Daschle reported the error himself.
Knowingly telling someone they can torture a person is a felony.
The taxes due, $100,000+ is stretched over three (4?) years and includes the car, expenses, and driver for those years.
Although he found and reported the error on his own, he does not have the accountant error to blame. That should exclude him from accepting the Cabinet post.
It is too bad that even an inadvertent error could keep someone from the cabinet. It should however because he has no acceptable excuse.
#22
> There was no intent to avoid
> taxes in this case and
> Daschle reported the error himself.
You mean there was no intention to “evade” taxes. Anyone that does not have intent to avoid taxes is an idiot.
Although I’m not fond of Daschle, I have much more of a problem with the Treasury Secretary having tax “mistakes” than the “health care czar”.
# 22 Mr. Fusion said, “I’m laughing at you. You made several errors, again. A felony requires intent.”
Oh, like INTENTIONALLY not reporting $80+K in income?
ROFL. You’re such an idiot. Or, do you STILL think federal tax evasion isn’t a criminal offense?
We should expand the size of the Cabinet. Think of all the Democrats that would pay up their taxes.
Daschle was unaware that using a company car and driver was a taxable benefit. He was wrong and should have known.
Geithner hired a tax accountant to prepare his taxes for him. The accountant made the error. Even though Geithner worked in banking circles, he was a not a tax expert and counted on someone else to do the work.
# 26 Mr. Fusion said, “Daschle was unaware that using a company car and driver was a taxable benefit. He was wrong and should have known.”
Not half of it. Daschle also didn’t report AT ALL that he received consulting income of $88,333, in 2007.
Criminal.
So, if you want to defend Obama just brushing this off, then all the crap you have spewed in the past about gov officials breaking the law and being brought to justice was disingenuous. You are a typical myopic partisan. In other words, part of the problem.
Your cred = 0
#27, Cow-Paddy,
I was unaware of that. I’ll have to check it out.
# 28 Mr. Fusion said, “I was unaware of that. I’ll have to check it out.”
All these crooks regardless of party need to go down. Can’t wait to see what comes up on that Repub senator Obama is courting.
Democrats should be called Democrooks or Hypocrats. Which sounds better? Anyone who beleives Daschle’s situation was an error is a moron. If he were a Republican he would be run out of town and proscecuted.
“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. ” (Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507, Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD))
He is the same kind of crook as Obama, just not as sneaky.