Another Deduction!

Another Obama administration nominee with tax problems! Nancy Killefer has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government due to a failure to pay employment taxes on household help for a year and a half.

The AP reported that on March 7, 2005, the D.C. Department of Employment Services slapped a tax lien on her home in the tony Wesley Heights neighborhood. The local government alleged that just three years after she left the high-powered Treasury post she began to fail to pay unemployment compensation tax for a household employee. And she failed to make the required quarterly payments for a year and half, whereupon a lien for $946.69 was placed on her home.

You know, if these officials, lawmakers and other fat cats actually paid their share of taxes like the rest of us, maybe our federal budget wouldn't be in such a crisis.

Tax Exempt?

What is going on with these Democrats lately? Two of Obama's cabinet appointees seem to have trouble paying their taxes! First there was new Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, who failed to pay Social Security taxes, even though he was paid extra to compensate for those taxes. Now we have Tom Daschle who has been picked to head the Health and Human Services Department. Apparently he failed to pay more than $120,000 in taxes! No wonder Democrats have no trouble raising taxes, they don't intend on paying them anyway! Look guys, if you want to get out of paying your taxes, do what the Republicans do, USE LOOPHOLES!