A Citizen. I agree with your definition. Avoid the mud puddle. Avoid bad people. Avoid late payments by paying one’s bills on time. Avoid dangerous situations by choosing to associate with those who do not engage in dangerous behavior. Simple when you think about it.

Evade is good if one needs to evade the enemy on the battlefield when shot down.

Evading taxes might be illegal.

I can read and once used the 5-year tax averaging method that resulted in owing less than if I did not use the legal method.

What would you call that?

Why are these crooks not in jail?

Many parents actually taught their children to lie, cheat and steal as well as sell drugs and prostitute themselves.

I’d say I’ve only taght about 1000 students but I’ve seen it too.

I once called the police chief of the town where I taught to inform him that a 30 year old local man was carrying on a relationship with a 6th grade girl. The girl’s mother (who I assume to be on drugs) seemingly approved of her daughters 30+ year old boyfriend.

Because they are Democrats!

What is absurd about RealityBasedBob is that he is just stupid enough to defend the very people who are going to screw him up the anal cavities with a massively stimulating pogo stick.

Dude, when are you going realize that YOU are the one who is being screwed?

Gotta love Madam Pelosi and her presidential pimp, no matter how they beat their children into submission the children always return for more abuse; and they’re always so gleeful about the misery they vote into power.

Boy, Chief, No shame, no honor, no accountability is correct! This should be the Democrat’s creed. It probably is.

ABC? ABC? The ABC that is part of the biased MSM?
I can’t trust what the MSM is reporting.

If ABC is even bothering to mention it, it must be really big.

Admittedly its difficult to look inside another person’s mind and read their intent (but then, Democrats have been blithely doing so where President Bush and members of his administration were concerned for 8 years straight!).

Still, reports now indicate that Daschle only acknowledged his debt of $128,000 back taxes and $12,000 in interest after it had been agreed that he would serve in the Obama cabinet. In other words, Daschle knew about the back taxes well before, ad the only rational conclusion is that he had no intention of paying up what he owed on his own volition, until it became clear that his unpaid taxes would be a public embarrassment for him and for Obama. He never intended to pay his taxes until he was asked to serve in the cabinet.

It is becoming more and more apparent that prominent Democrats, the so-called “leaders” of their party, have a very different, very disdainful view of the rules that the rest of society is expected to live by.

eneils Bailey. Thanks for the discussion opening. I taught grades 5 through 9.

I could tell many similar stories, but certain people would not “get it”.

On a positive note, one woman I car pooled with put her four children through college and taught them Christian values while owning one old car and a cinder block house.

She was the exception. We finally made good friends after about 15 years. She refused to work for the corrupt School District #1 in Columbia, SC because the man she interviewed for asked her for $300 under the table and that was back in 1962. She was an example of a woman of integrity. Unlike these corrupt democrats.

Good one sc! And they probably only spent 10 minutes researching Daschle.

It was probably only 5 minutes.

Tom will still be confirmed, we all know that rules don’t apply to dumocrats.

Onslaught. This is a picture of who they are. The Truth.

Smart people, in my book who lie, cheat and steal are not smart. They are dirty criminals.

Certain people continually try to create unusual definitions of common words such as IS.

Honest people pay their taxes, support those who refuse to work and are generally happy because they worked for a living. They give their honest values to their children. We enjoy life because it is ours, we worked for it, earned it, defended freedoms here and abroad and still contribute time, money and love to those who do not have it.

Personally, I just filed my income taxes and noted that I contributed over 500 hours to the South Carolina State Guard that prepares for disasters such as Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

We donate the blood that others take for granted. All we ask is that those “others” leave our homes, families, and property alone.

I can read and once used the 5-year tax averaging method that resulted in owing less than if I did not use the legal method.

What would you call that?

Communism is evil
Chief RZ on February 1, 2009 at 01:53 pm

Tax averaging is legal. The IRS lets you do it. You didn’t “evade” paying your taxes, you legally “avoided ” paying more than you might have. Bottom line, you paid, you didn’t commit tax “evasion.”

Seeing how Tom Daschel is a Democrat it won’t matter how deep they dig. Democrats get by with that sort of thing. As long as they vote for more Taxes they don’t have to pay them. At least that is how it appears. Accountability? Thy name is NOT Democrat!

LoadTheMule. About 29+ years. I taught 400+ a year, then later split semesters. 400X29=about 10,000. I taught Health and Physical Education. The largest class was 53 students, but most were 35-40. I taught 6-7 classes per day, refusing a planning period so I could have classes with about 30-35 students.

Perhaps some posters follow Daschel’s example?

If he is dirty, he should not serve.

Proof. They have no shame nor honor nor accountability. Nothing is right or wrong, good or bad. They do what is “right” in their own eyes.

I saw this while teaching over 10,000 students during my public school teaching career. Many parents actually taught their children to lie, cheat and steal as well as sell drugs and prostitute themselves.

And then what happened when you moved from the first to the third grade?

Did things improve?

Many parents actually taught their children to lie, cheat and steal

as well as sell drugs and prostitute themselves.

If he is dirty, he should not serve

Same for Timothy Geithner? He said he was dirty and mirabile dictu! He’s serving!

Seems to me there’s a big difference in the Obama administration between “should not serve” and “will not serve”.

It’s not a bad thing to skip out on your bills or do anything for a buck. In fact, it’s what the smart people do.

The Putz from Portland demonstrates once again, his complete lack of morals. Added to his complete lack of credibility, makes him the all around expert on what not to do!

ELLINAS: Now I understand why you chose to live in Stockton.

But I thought you constems thought it ok for people to keep more of the money they earn?

Are you practicing class warfare?
Dino on January 31, 2009 at 05:23 pm

Not at all, we’re talking TAX EVASION.

The MSM is starting to realize that they may have backed the wrong horse and are now trying to cover their ass.

ABC News has obtained the Senate Finance Committee……

By Proof on January 31, 2009 at 01:13 pm

Hmmm!!!! ABC? ABC? The ABC that is part of the biased MSM?
I can’t trust what the MSM is reporting. They are so biased, they don’t even say he is not a Republican.
Got any other sources? Like a right wing blog we can trust?
I for one don’t even watch the corrupt and biased MSM.
They are cheerleaders for the corrupt Democrats.
They constantly cover for them.
ellinas on January 31, 2009 at 04:30 pm

Are you saying that the Senate Finance Committee report isn’t accurate because ABC reported on it?