Thursday, January 15, 2009

I Wish I Didn't Have to Pay Taxes

One of the things you hear a lot at moonbat sites is how you just don't want to pay your fair share if you think raising taxes is a bad thing. And it's not just that you think raising taxes on "the rich" is a bad thing. It's if you think voluntary taxes, such as gambling, are better than mandatory ones, you must be some rich bastard. And we all know that rich bastards don't pay their "fair share" of taxes. In other words, you must be Timothy Geithner.

Would it be OK if I stopped paying my taxes until Barack Obama names me to be his secretary of the treasury?

That is a deal I would like to get. That is the deal financial wizard Timothy Geithner got.

He didn’t pay all of his federal taxes for years. Then, after Obama decided to name him treasury secretary, Obama’s vetting team discovered Geithner’s little oversight.

Not paying your taxes is considered serious for some people. But not for Geithner, a Wall Street “wonder boy” — he is 47 — who is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was instrumental in putting together the recent Wall Street bailout package.

You would think a guy like this would know about paying taxes, but no. Mistakes were made.

Geithner failed to pay the proper self-employment taxes for 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, even though he was sent documents telling him he had to do so.

But in 2006, Geithner got a document he couldn’t ignore. The IRS sent Geithner a notice saying he had not paid his taxes for 2003 and 2004, and Geithner paid up.

But he did not pay up for 2001 and 2002, even though he must have known that he skipped taxes for those years, too.

He didn’t pay those taxes until Barack Obama decided he wanted Geithner to head the treasury and Obama sent vetters to look into Geithner’s past.

Shockingly, you aren't hearing any complaints from the Left that Geithner, a.k.a., Rich Bastard Not Paying His Fair Share, skipped out on his taxes until Teh One called him to run the--*snort*--I.R.S.!

It really is too good to be true, and were Geithner a Republican, Jon Stewart would be making endless jokes at his expense. But this is, after all, the coronation of His Obamaness, and so all those pesky ethics rules kinda fly out the window.