Tom Daschle cheats on his taxes too!

By Saturday January 31, 2009

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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?



32 Comments
  1. jobs says:
    2/1/2009 at 9:52 am

    #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.

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  2. Mr. Fusion says:
    2/1/2009 at 9:55 am

    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.

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  3. Thomas says:
    2/1/2009 at 10:39 am

    #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”.

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  4. Paddy-O says:
    2/1/2009 at 1:17 pm

    # 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?

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  5. MikeN says:
    2/1/2009 at 1:25 pm

    We should expand the size of the Cabinet. Think of all the Democrats that would pay up their taxes.

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  6. Mr. Fusion says:
    2/1/2009 at 8:27 pm

    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.

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  7. Paddy-O says:
    2/2/2009 at 5:44 am

    # 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

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  8. Mr. Fusion says:
    2/2/2009 at 7:38 am

    #27, Cow-Paddy,

    I was unaware of that. I’ll have to check it out.

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  9. Paddy-O says:
    2/2/2009 at 7:48 am

    # 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.

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  10. JW says:
    2/2/2009 at 9:08 am

    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.

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  11. Mr Diesel says:
    2/2/2009 at 12:08 pm

    Wow!! Hardly a peep from all the Bush Derangement Syndrome posters always looking for politician blood. Oh, that must be only Republican politician blood.

    Seems a little hypocritical to me.

    I learned today that if I don’t pay my taxes I can say it was a mistake and I can’t be convicted of a felony. Man is that ever a load off my mind.

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  12. Paddy-O says:
    2/2/2009 at 12:17 pm

    “The financial disclosure form Daschle filed about a week ago also shows that he made more than $200,000 in the past two years speaking to members of the industry that President Obama wants him to reform.”

    Daschle also works at a lobbyist firm, although, he isn’t “technically” a lobbyist.

    If Obama doesn’t dump this trash he’s a hypocrite.

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