Personally it makes me physically nauseous to hear Representative Frank speak, but what he is saying in this clip is extremely important. He is addressing a complaint by a Democratic senator that appointments to the Treasury Department are being held up because they are being too heavily scrutinized for things like tax evasion.
Scrutinizing Treasury Department nominees because they haven't paid their taxes.
Yes, that sounds like typical "gotcha" political games.
The problem is that Representative Frank, much like Representative Rangel and Senator Dodd, don't want any politician to be scrutinized for tax evasion, lest they be thrown under the bus for the same.
Despicable.
Even worse is that Andrea Mitchell caved to him.
****Update: I couldn't get the video to work, so here is the link.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Don't Ask Whether TREASURY DEPARTMENT Appointees Paid Taxes
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My only thought was this "overreaction to minor acts of imperfection" should then not be a big deal when the IRS comes after Joe Average who messed up his numbers up too.
There's so much hypocrisy up in Washington it's ridiculous. When you run for or are appointed to public office you should understand that you are opening yourself up to scrutiny. If you don't like that or have something to hide, then DON'T run.
Thought that you would enjoy this video interview of Harry Reid stating that our income taxes are actually voluntary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
That is kind of like Speaker Pelosi saying that the President had been "generous" by not increasing taxes until 2011. Like this is the government's money that they are letting people keep. Outrageous!
Yah, income taxes are voluntary. You either have to pay them or go into elected office!
I believe that, since quite a few of the high profile people in the Administration and Congress have been found to have not paid their required share of taxes, ALL officials, representatives, and employees deserve to be audited by an independent group to assure that their taxes have been faithfully reported and paid. And, any that are found to be not in compliance should be required to pay any arrears as well as appropriate fines. Maybe the cost of such audits should be borne by each member of the group from their personal salaries and not from Government funds. There should be instituted a new requirement based upon the ability of such employees, representatives, senators, etc. that tax audits are a prerequisite for election or appointment or hire.
I think that's a brilliant idea, Bill, I think that every incoming congressman should have a tax audit performed. I think an audit of all lawmakers would be completely appropriate, given the lack of confidence that they have inspired lately.
I forget which state it was, but there was a recent showing that of the elected state lawmakers something like 30% of them owed back taxes.
That's ridiculous.
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