nytimes.com - 1/14/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama with his choice for Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, in Washington early this month.
nytimes.com - 1/15/2009
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The tax transgressions by Timothy F. Geithner, the
nominee for Treasury secretary, paint a picture of noncompliance...
that is more disturbing than his supporters acknowledge. >
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Editorial: More Questions for Mr. Geithner
michellemalkin.com - 1/15/2009
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The message from DC is the guy to trust at Treasury is the guy who didn’t pay taxes. Such care with one’s own money gives such assurance for the rest of us. By convention when you make big bucks, not paying taxes is an “honest mistake“.
It seems that Obama spokesmen are calling the non-payment of thousands of dollars in back taxes for years a minor thing. One news report described it as “a speed bump.” Sam Stein over at HuffingtonPost calls it an “embarrassing public relations headache” but really a mistake “quite common ...
About Geithner
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Now I can accept that a paperwork snafu led to immigration issues for a domestic employee. And I can accept that even the brightest guy can make a tax mistake those IRS rules are confusing, and the one he broke more than most. But when you get pinged for a violation on one return that you know you made in other years but choose not to correct since you didnt get caught, doesnt that raise a serious character issue that needs to be considered? Timothy Geithner didn't pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for several years while he worked for the International ...
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