Lord Narf-Um-What-Brain-Lumpford-Something-Shire (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} remjte) wrote,@ 2009-01-14 11:36:00 |
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Treasury-to-be didn't file his taxes
http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presiden
WASHINGTON (Jan. 14) - A Capitol Hill grilling is likely for Timothy Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to head the Treasury Department, after public revelations he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes several years ago.
Now, spot the bias:
"...newly released information about the tax goofs by Geithner,..."
"...did so after Obama's transition team found that Geithner had made the same tax mistake his first two years at the IMF as the one the IRS found he made during his last two years there."
"Obama's transition team told Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and senior Republican Charles E. Grassley of Iowa of the tax problems in early December,..."
'"These errors were not intentional; they were honest mistakes," Baucus said after the session.'
"Grassley, who pressed for the irregularities to be made public, hasn't said whether he considers them grounds for opposing Geithner's nomination."
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., dismissed the events as "a few little hiccups," and said he was "not concerned at all" about the impact."
They're "goofs" or "mistakes" or "tax problems", even "hiccups" if you want to listen to Harry Reid, yet other people have GONE TO PRISON for these things. Some have at least gone to local jail for FAR LESS.
They don't even mention that it's a crime (I know- I disagree with the income tax on Constitutional grounds, but it's not like Geithner was making a principled stand, so, stay with me here), regardless if his penalty amounts to simply paying what he owes and then some. Other people would be labeled as "tax cheats" or "tax evaders".
http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presiden
WASHINGTON (Jan. 14) - A Capitol Hill grilling is likely for Timothy Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to head the Treasury Department, after public revelations he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes several years ago.
Now, spot the bias:
"...newly released information about the tax goofs by Geithner,..."
"...did so after Obama's transition team found that Geithner had made the same tax mistake his first two years at the IMF as the one the IRS found he made during his last two years there."
"Obama's transition team told Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and senior Republican Charles E. Grassley of Iowa of the tax problems in early December,..."
'"These errors were not intentional; they were honest mistakes," Baucus said after the session.'
"Grassley, who pressed for the irregularities to be made public, hasn't said whether he considers them grounds for opposing Geithner's nomination."
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., dismissed the events as "a few little hiccups," and said he was "not concerned at all" about the impact."
They're "goofs" or "mistakes" or "tax problems", even "hiccups" if you want to listen to Harry Reid, yet other people have GONE TO PRISON for these things. Some have at least gone to local jail for FAR LESS.
They don't even mention that it's a crime (I know- I disagree with the income tax on Constitutional grounds, but it's not like Geithner was making a principled stand, so, stay with me here), regardless if his penalty amounts to simply paying what he owes and then some. Other people would be labeled as "tax cheats" or "tax evaders".
