breitbart.com - 1/31/2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Sen. Tom Daschle, picked by President Barack Obama to lead the administration's health reform efforts, recently filed amended tax returns to report $128,203 in unpaid taxes and $11,964 in interest, according to a Senate document obtained by The Associated Press. The ...
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
online.wsj.com - 1/31/2009
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Getty Images Tom Daschle, right, flanked by his
wife Linda Daschle, as he testifies during his Senate
Confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Jan. 8.
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Daschle Paid Back Taxes After Vetting
michellemalkin.com - 1/31/2009
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Corruption, Democrat Style
Power Line —
... Another thing that happens a lot in Washington is that when Democrats get appointed to visible, high-ranking positions in the Executive Branch, they suddenly discover that they owe a lot more money in taxes. We saw that with Tim Geithner. The latest example is Daschle, Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services: ...
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California Conservative —
First, Tim Geithner either was too lazy, too incompetent or too crooked to pay his taxes. (Personally, I’m going with the too crooked option.) Now it’s being learned that Tom Daschle didn’t pay his taxes either:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Sen. Tom Daschle, picked by President Barack Obama to lead the administration’s health reform efforts, recently filed amended tax returns to report $128,203 in unpaid taxes and $11,964 in interest, according to a Senate document obtained by The Associated Press.
The White House acknowledged Friday that “some tax issues” had emerged in connection ...
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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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