corner.nationalreview.com - 1/31/2009
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It seems Tom Daschle recently paid a little over $100,000 in back taxes and interest after failing to tell the IRS that he was receiving a free car and driver from a Wall Street friend for three years. If you're keeping track, that's a little over twice the amount Tim Geithner paid in back taxes ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/30/2009
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ABC News has learned that the nomination of
former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-SD, to be...
President Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl on its way through the Senate Finance Committee. The controversy...
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Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/31/2009
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ABC News has obtained the Senate Finance Committee
Report on Tom Daschle's nomination to be Secretary of...
the Department of Health and Human Services, which indicates that Daschle's tax problems were even more substantial than earlier reported. The ...
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More Daschle Tax Issues
michellemalkin.com - 1/31/2009
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ANOTHER GEITHNER PROBLEM, this time for Tom Daschle:
It seems Tom Daschle recently paid a little …
Instapundit —
ANOTHER GEITHNER PROBLEM, this time for Tom Daschle:
It seems Tom Daschle recently paid a little over $100,000 in back taxes and interest after failing to tell the IRS that he was receiving a free car and driver from a Wall Street friend for three years. If you’re keeping track, that’s a little over twice the amount Tim Geithner paid in back taxes and interest.
Don’t any of these people pay their taxes?
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Driving Mr. Daschle: HHS Nominee Has $100,000 'Geithner Problem'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner "only" $40,000 in back taxes and interest, principally relating to unpaid Social Security and Medicare taxes (with a dash of retirement-plan penalty and illegally deducted overnight summer camp expenses thrown into the mix), the man who Rush Limbaugh used to call "Puff" Daschle during his Senate days has upped to ante to six figures.
Jake Tapper at ABC's Political Punch appears to be the one breaking the story (HT NRO's The Corner):
Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax ...
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Tax issues shadow Obama health nominee Daschle —
Reuters: Politics 1/31/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's choice to spearhead U.S. healthcare reform, Tom Daschle, paid more than $100,000 in back taxes for a three-year period, setting up a potential roadblock to his nomination, documents showed on Friday.
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