Originally Posted By dshyates I wish I made enough money where I could forget a sum of money so large that the tax on it is $135,000. No, taxes has NOTHING to do with why I think Daschle should stay away. He is an obstuctionist partisan.
Originally Posted By dshyates "I'm sick of Democrat hypocrisy. Enough." Fair enough. lord knows there is enough hypocrasy in Washington to go around.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<I'm sick of Democrat hypocrisy. Enough.>> But you're the one who criticized the Dems for being "tax cheats" when it was proven that McCain skipped out on FOUR YEARS of property taxes on his San Diego condo. Four years is not an honest mistake. Where's your indignation for Republicans being tax cheats? Doesn't matter if Daschle deliberately did not pay the tax. You criticized him for being a "tax cheat" while supporting a Republican who didn't pay his taxes for four years. That's hypocrisy, pure and simple.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains 1 question - How can you not pay your property taxes for 4 years and still have the property? My sister actually did forget to pay hers (she had previously had an escrow account and thought they were still paid through that) There was a lein on the property within 3 months of not being paid. So how could you go 4 years?
Originally Posted By DAR Slogan for Tom Daschle: I believe that everyone should pay their fair share when it comes to taxes(except me)
Originally Posted By dshyates with Daschle, I understand the mistake. And it was an actual mistake. I would assume that if someone was providing a car they would be paying the taxes on it. If "giving" me a car to use is going to cost me $128,000, then I think I would use my own car. It does seem that Dems hate taxes as much as Repubs.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 they love to raise them- it's the paying part they seem to believe they're above.
Originally Posted By queenbee <<they love to raise them>> As long as we are generalizing..... They love to raise them on the rich while the Republican love to raise them for the working poor. Didn't Bush raise the payroll tax which affects the working poor most of all?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 ^^^ funny but usually when Dems raise taxes by me it's on state income tax and sales tax-- are either rich or poor exempted from them ? I think not.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name. < no loss to any of us -- and as a former lobbyist in the industry who got rich from that - I'd rahter have someone with less of a rooting interest in either side of the health industry issues - thank you
Originally Posted By dshyates I am so glad Daschle withdrew. The only thing I want to see Daschle do is kick Tom Delays rear end in a cage match.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Didn't Bush raise the payroll tax which affects the working poor most of all?> No.
Originally Posted By dshyates Doug is right. Bush not only did NOT raise payroll taxes, he block them.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <But you're the one who criticized the Dems for being "tax cheats" when it was proven that McCain skipped out on FOUR YEARS of property taxes on his San Diego condo.> One, this is the first I've heard of it. Two, Sen McCain lost the election, and isn't being considered for a cabinet position. Three, not paying a small property tax on a rental held by a trust isn't the same as misstating your income.
Originally Posted By dshyates "One, this is the first I've heard of it. " <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/143775" target="_blank">http://www.newsweek.com/id/143775</a> "Two, Sen McCain lost the election, and isn't being considered for a cabinet position." Holy flurkin' schnit, What as absolutely frickin' dumbass position to take. Did you come up with that all on your own? "Three, not paying a small property tax on a rental held by a trust isn't the same as misstating your income." No, his mistake was over 7 times greater than Mrs. Killefer's $900 error the Repubs went BALLISTIC over.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh <Holy flurkin' schnit, What as absolutely frickin' dumbass position to take. Did you come up with that all on your own?> Wonderful. Another post that mistakes an insult for an argument. I don't see Republicans going "ballistic" over any of the President's nominees; I see them voicing reasonable concerns. In fact, here's a link to a Republican pundit saying Mrs. Killefer's mistake was no big deal - <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123368873148944433.html" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/...433.html</a> "Maybe there is more to the story than this, but if the AP's report is accurate and complete, the outrage here consists in the withdrawal of her nomination. Unlike Geithner and Daschle, she paid her delinquent taxes in full long before Obama even became a serious candidate for president. If an error corrected in a timely fashion leads to this sort of public humiliation, why would anyone accept an appointment to a government post?"
Originally Posted By Mr X Did ya see the AP report about DouglasDubh stuns world events by providing an actual link to information? Thanks, Doug..interesting (and yes, in comparison to the other stuff I was pretty surprised that Killefer withdrew over this as well).
Originally Posted By dshyates <a href="http://www.no-libs.com/index.php?/Anti-PC-League-Featured-Post/nancy-killefer-tax-cheat-withdraws-nomination.html" target="_blank">http://www.no-libs.com/index.p...ion.html</a>
Originally Posted By dshyates Doug, just peruse this google search and take in the results. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPIA,HPIA:2005-18,HPIA:en&q=killefer+cheat" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?s...er+cheat</a>
