$43,000 In Unpaid Taxes Is A Common Occurence?

• January 17, 2009

Michelle Malkin rips into the hypocrisy surrounding the revelations of Obama Treasury nominee Tim Geithner’s unpaid taxes:

The Senate Finance Committee revealed this week that Geithner failed to pay some $43,000 in federal self-employment taxes for four separate years – and only coughed up $26,000 of that debt when he was named Obama’s Treasury Secretary-designate in November. The brilliant and meticulous Geithner didn’t catch the lapses. The Internal Revenue Service and Team Obama’s vetters did.
Recall that Joe the Plumber, an average guy with no Ivy League degrees in business or finance, was crucified for his $1,182.98 Ohio tax lien (the state had sent a notification to a prior residence he had vacated). One might give a common man some leeway for making common mistakes. But Tim Geithner is no “common” man – and “$43,000 in unpaid taxes is a common occurrence” simply does not wash as a credible alibi. Supporters have dubbed Geithner “too big to fail.” Try “too smart to care.”

I don’t make anywhere near what Giethner did in a year at the time of these unpaid taxes, but I still pay a lot of federal taxes. Given what I pay, and what a precious percentage it is of my overall income, I’m more than a little insulted at leftist/media attempts to trivialize this.
If Geithner mismanaged his personal finances so throughly that he wasn’t aware that he had failed to pay tens of thousands in taxes then he is clearly unfit to sit at the head of the government agency that oversees the IRS.
If he was aware that he owed tens of thousands in taxes and didn’t pay them then he’s a criminal and a hypocrite and is unfit to sit at the head of the government agency that oversees the IRS.
Either way, Geithner needs to resign.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array mplsbob

Dino, OK, lets not make any heads of those corporations treasury secretary. Fair enough?
Carter

It’s better than that…this article points out that not only did he not pay those taxes, he filed the appropriate paperwork to be reimbursed for those taxes he didn’t pay.
Kramer

It all depends on whether you got a D or an R infront of your name, D’s get away with murder, R’s are not quite as bad, but getting closer
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Why are you worried that a plumber didn’t pay his taxes while you’re unworried that this financial whiz who’s slated to run the Treasury department didn’t pay his.

Last time I checked we weren’t hiring Joe to in effect run the economy (under the current bailout mania).
jimmypop

83 of the 100 largest corporations including BofA, Citigroup, Newscorp and AIG have offshore subsidiaries that screw America out of 100 BILLION DOLLARS a year in taxes.

But I’ll bet that doesn’t bother you.

first, its not our money to take.

second, why should any business be REQUIRED to be in the usa? you guys HATE them and have been chasing them away for years and years.
A Citizen

Wait until NAPOLITANO gets her hands on Homeland Security.
Talk about a lack of experience…..
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

What is a real joke is that the Obamalama team knew about this and figured that it was no big deal.

It is. This guy is a criminal. A tax cheat! He’s supposed to head up the IRS? He’s smart enough to run the economy?
robert108

That protection costs blood and treasure. Yours and mine.

Absolutely false! It’s about making valid, reciprocal business agreements.
Your bullshit is noted, again.
robert108

I stand by my comments/statement.

Of course you do; it’s the proof that you lack intelligence.
ellinas

Did Joe the plumber pay his taxes?
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Ellinas it seemed to me that you were fine with this guy not paying his taxes.

Also what’s to stop foreign manufacturers from selling to the US if you don’t allow US firms to buy from them?

I don’t agree with keeping foreign goods out. Why should US consumers be forced to pay for overpriced goods that are at lower quality than what people can get in the rest of the world?

It’s better to reduce barriers to operating in the US as much as possible. We have too many stupid regulations and taxes that are driving manufacturers (and other jobs that can be outsourced) away.
Kurt

It is a common occurrence, I do it all the time.
Kurt

Getting reimbursed for taxes one does not pay is the democrat plan…same as unearned income.
robert108

Like the rest of PEBO’s team, Geithner is a criminal.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Wow, so now it should be ok if we don’t want to pay our taxes either.
Dino

83 of the 100 largest corporations including BofA, Citigroup, Newscorp and AIG have offshore subsidiaries that screw America out of 100 BILLION DOLLARS a year in taxes.

But I’ll bet that doesn’t bother you.
ellinas

Whistler! I am concerned about anyone that does not pay their share of taxes.
Brent

You are falling for the Big Myth that this guy pays taxes. Think about it… the guy is a net tax consumer and has been for a long, long time. Why don’t they just take the $43k out of his current/future tax-sucking salary?
mplsbob

Can you even get a job at the IRS if you failed to pay your taxes? Doesn’t that make you ineligible?
ellinas

robert108. Your bullshit is noted, again.
I stand by my comments/statement.
ellinas

robert108. Your bullshit is noted, again.
This is proof that you lack intelligence.
Old Retired Petty Officer

If it was you or me…………the IRS would be after us in a heartbeat. But an obammybuddy gets a pass? Everyone of his cabinet picks is a useless waste of sperm.
ellinas

The Whistler. It is not ok with me that this prick, or any other prick who does not pay his taxes.

I am in agreement about lower priced quality goods entering our country competing with others, and keeping the prices down. However if an American buisiness, for instance a pharmaceutical company, invents a medication or treatment for let’s say, to cure testicular cancer, the only thing that stands in the way of beeing counterfitted/reverse engineered/duplicated other countries companies is the might of Uncle Sam. That protection costs blood and treasure. Yours and mine. And that is why I wrote this post: ellinas on January 17, 2009 at 08:37 am
eneils Bailey

But Tim Geithner is no “common” man — and “$43,000 in unpaid taxes is a common occurrence” simply does not wash as a credible alibi. Supporters have dubbed Geithner “too big to fail.” Try “too smart to care.”

If that would have been my ass, I would be in litigation, up to my ass.

Geithner appears to be no more than a usual tax cheater, an empowered social liberal professing tax policies to be paid by the common man but his misfortunes should be forgiven for his exalted status in life.

Washington, and its suburbs is a locale that all working and tax-paying citizens should treat as a chancre upon the economic and cultural health of this nation.
ellinas

……second, why should any business be REQUIRED to be in the USA?

jimmypop on January 16, 2009 at 11:39 pm

Because they benefit from our economic and military might.
They benefit from trade treaties the USA negotiates with other countries.
If they want to be in China, Taiwan, Honduras, India, etc, then they should not look to the USA for support in the enforcement of intellectual property rights, when their products are reverse engineered and produced cheaper at other countries factories, or for compensation when a foreign government decides to nationalize their factories or any other operation they have abroad.
robert108

83 of the 100 largest corporations including BofA, Citigroup, Newscorp and AIG have offshore subsidiaries…

In order to escape greedy Dem taxation and regulation. Duh.

Dem energy restrictions on development, building refineries and building powerplants have screwed us out of trillions in personal income, hundreds of thousands of jobs, and massive amounts of tax money, even at reasonable rates.
Carter let the environazis into our legislative process, which caused the damage.

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