Is it just me, or does this piss anyone else off....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_go_co/treasury_geithner

"he called "careless mistakes" in failing to pay $34,000 in taxes earlier in the decade, when he worked at the International Monetary Fund."

I'm sorry this is not the guy I want in charge of the US Treasury.

I dont know man, if you gave me the chance at pocketing 34K and a reasonable belief that i could get away with it. F the morals id do it.

Just trying to be a realist here. cheating on your taxes is the least of sins i worry about. hell it's akin to an american sport truth be told.

I dare you tell me that you sit down come tax time and say "Hmmmm.. let me run these numbers again because i'm sure that there is some way i can contribute more to the government coffers"

Is it just me, or does this piss anyone else off....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_go_co/treasury_geithner

"he called "careless mistakes" in failing to pay $34,000 in taxes earlier in the decade, when he worked at the International Monetary Fund."

I'm sorry this is not the guy I want in charge of the US Treasury.

He also testified that even his tax man/accountant missed it. Hope he did not pay too high for the tax expertise.

Yeah we know no one would lie under oath, lulz.

Is it just me, or does this piss anyone else off....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_go_co/treasury_geithner

"he called "careless mistakes" in failing to pay $34,000 in taxes earlier in the decade, when he worked at the International Monetary Fund."

I'm sorry this is not the guy I want in charge of the US Treasury.


It is far from unusual to under pay taxes with our tax codes, it's done by millions of people in ALL professions every year. You file what's called an ammended return...very very common thing.

I'd worry less about the $34k and more about the fact that he's almost no different than Paulson. That will cost us a helluva lot more than $34k.

So he's either incompetent or immoral and we know that going in....

Great choice...not

/grumble
Ron Paul would have been so much better :(

So he's either incompetent or immoral and we know that going in....

Great choice...not


This tax thing is so totally a non-issue I don't even know where to start on it. The specific tax he did not pay is a fairly arcane payroll stipulation that you'd never even knew existed unless you were a tax accountant for the self-employed, and then only in a small number of situations -- as one senator noted "His consisituents paying it" is probably not true because most of them aren't consultanting internationally. It totaled a relatively small amount of money that he paid back when it was noticed.

If he's a crook, he's horrible at it.

Rag on the guy's policies ... those are actually worth talking about and likely to have a few more zeros at the end in terms of cost ...

/grumble
Ron Paul would have been so much better :(

I don't think Congressman Paul really would have been better. He'd be more likely to pick Democrat picking Barney Frank (both of these congressmen work very closely together on the financial issues and agree most of the time), but it'd be just as bad of a choice - picking a politician to do a banker's job. That being said, there are plenty of bankers out there who agree with Paul and Frank's evaluation of "the Temple of the Fed and of the High Priest Alan Greenspan" - Barney Frank's quote, not mine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/magazine/22Paul-t.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=bf8dec405a435ea7&ex=1186459200