Good Grief. Another Obama Treasury Department Official Admits Cheating On Taxes
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:37 AM
It’s like its a prerequisite…
Another Obama Treasury Department official admitted to cheating on her taxes.
Dr. Lael Brainard is the latest Obama official to have tax problems.
The AP reported:
President Barack Obama’s choice for a top job in the Treasury Department did not disclose all of her late tax payments until she was repeatedly prodded by Senate investigators, a congressional report issued Wednesday said.
Obama’s nominee for undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs, Lael Brainard, is the fifth presidential nominee to reveal tax issues during the congressional vetting process.
Brainard was late in paying real estate taxes in 2005, 2006 and 2007 on property in Northern Virginia, according to the report by the Senate Finance Committee staff.
The report also challenges the accuracy of a deduction Brainard claimed for running an office from her home. The challenge led Brainard to reduce the deduction on her 2008 return, though she declined to adjust returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007, telling committee staff she used a reasonable method to calculate the deductions.
Brainard paid most of the late property taxes before she was nominated, in March. However, she told the committee that she realized after her nomination that her 2008 property taxes had not been paid. They were paid in September, the report said.
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Sal commented:
I am not even a college graduate and yet, I manage to pay my taxes on time.
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Andreas K. commented:
Since all the tax cheats are sitting in the treasury department… Maybe putting Charles Manson in charge of the justice department isn’t such a bad idea?
syn commented:
Yet another Ivy-Inbred from Harvard who cheats.
End Tenure: Stop Ivy-Inbred Indoctrinating Stupid Occupation.
Ginger commented:
This is funny.
They have put us in the unemployment lines and in three years we are going to put them in the unemployment lines! Oh wait! They won’t need it.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Mike commented:
You know, if we can just get his appointees to pay their taxes, we can cut the deficit to hundreds of billions instead of trillions.
proof commented:
I think Obama’s plan is brilliant! Retire the deficit by appointing nothing but Democrat tax cheats who have to pony up back taxes to play.
down with dems commented:
The 2012 election ads are writing themselves…. play Obama’s quote where he says (paraphrased) “judge me by who I choose to keep around me”… then list off all the tax cheats, socialists, communists, terrorists he has surrounded himself with. Show the Hugo Chavez book greeting, all of his bows to foreign leaders, play his “America is a Muslim nation” quote, display his hypocrisy in criticizing the white police officer who “stupidly” arrested his black friend while out of the other side of his mouth begging people not to jump to conclusions about Hasan the Muslim traitor. Skyrocketting national debt, the deficit, the lack of transparency in EVERYTHING, all the easily proved lies he has told… he will have to come up with a new entitlement program to promise people in order to get re-elected…
LytnUp commented:
I have a hard time believing that all of these people think taxes are not high enough. They certainly seem to have a hard time with the current level.