Comments on: Daschle on Taxes

By: steve s

steve s — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:46:16 +0000

I have committed numerous errors on my tax returns over the years. When I used to trade stocks, one time my 34-page filing of trades was flagged and I didn't hear from them for 3 mos. They eventually recalculated it and said I owed them about $54 bucks. I paid it. Recently, they sent me a letter saying I probably qualified for the EITC and just didn't realize it. I signed a form saying I did, and they sent me a $100 check. In general I have not found the IRS to be the hideous monster alleged, and I believe that Daschle probably didn't get any special treatment. If accidentally violating a tax law automatically put you in jail I'd be writing this from the prison in Starke. Do I think the tax code should be simpler? Sure. But I think a lot of the complexity is to give rich people loopholes. Am I crying that Stanley O'Neil ruined Merril Lynch, got paid $150 million to do so, and now might have to pay 35% taxes on that money? No, I'm not.

By: Eneils Bailey

Eneils Bailey — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:29:21 +0000

“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. ” - Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507.

If the laws were properly enforced, poor ole Tommy-Boy would be some thug's bitch in Federal prison.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:05:06 +0000

This guy is the liberalist of liberals, so this is no surprise.

Liberals are inherently cheaters--in fact, that is the meaning of liberalism.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:57:14 +0000

About par for the course for this guy - he spends all week in Wash while a senator bad mouthing the president and then runs for reelection with ads depicting him with Bush. I can definately say that I am not surprised by any of this - he is coming clean now only b/c he has to - not b/c he just discovered his crimes.

By: odograph

odograph — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:42:30 +0000

No native criminal class, except Congress.