Has everyone been following the mad string of resignations by Obama's nominees over tax evasion disclosures? One of them, Nancy Killefer, resigned because she hadn't payed a few hundred dollars in taxes - I think she just decided she didn't want that position anymore. But Tom Daschle's case is no petty one - he owes 100s of 1000s of $$$. Joe, the plumber who made headlines during the election campaign, falls somewhere in between. Hence, the term "average Joe" I suppose.
I tried to find out if the taxes Tom Daschle evaded was in the last 8 years, but nowhere could I find when exactly he evaded that amount. Let's assume for this blog's sake that all the tax Tom evaded was prior to 2001. Dashle in 2001 must have been thinking "Phew! Atleast the next 4 years, I don't have to fudge my tax return". And, deja vu in 2005, of course.
Obama has already appointed 3 Republicans to his cabinet. If any of these guys have tax problems, atleast they have their publicly held ideology as an excuse. I hope the tax problems ends here. Otherwise, Obama would have no choice but to cross party lines to pick all his nominees. It all becomes too murky at that point, and all of a sudden Rumsfeld's famous incoherent rant about known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns start making sense. (Just replace known and unknown with Democrat and Republican)
If this Animal Farm ending is inevitable, let's not hasten it. Let's keep Obama and Michael Jackson as far apart as possible. We cannot let Obama truly change colours!
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Don't be hasty in resting your trust iwth the Republicans. Why do you think they rant about tax cuts, specially for the wealthy - they want to get it down to a level where their evasion becomes legal!
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