reason.com - 2/3/2009
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Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) is trying to keep his hopes alive to be named secretary of Health and Human Services after it's come to light that he failed to pay almost $130,000 in taxes. The short version: Of course, he'll make it. The Senate is an undistinguished ...
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NICK GILLESPIE ON TOM DASCHLE:
Here’s a question for Daschle (and for that matter, Timothy Geithn…
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NICK GILLESPIE ON TOM DASCHLE:
Here’s a question for Daschle (and for that matter, Timothy Geithner, who had tax and nanny problems of his own that didn’t stop him from being named Treasury secretary): When you amended your taxes and coughed up about $140,000 in back taxes plus interest, did you feel like you were stimulating the economy as much as you would have if you had spent that money yourself?
Heh.
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Daschle Ankled
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Farewell, o great American. More from Nick Gillespie below. By the way, since when did Cabinet appointments go the way of baseball arbitration cases, in which every attempt is made to avoid contentious hearings altogether? All these pre-confirmation resignations are robbing us of crucial public drama....
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