“…Death and Taxes…” Maybe not so much the “Taxes”

Only Two Things in Life are Certain: Death and Taxes. Unless of course you are a member of the Leftist Elite and wish to work in President Obama’s government. It has always confounded me as to why Liberals are always so willing to raise taxes and take more money away from hard working people.

I think I’ve figured it out: It’s because none of them are actually paying their taxes!!!

[Conversation in the Senate, 2002]
Anonymous Senator: “Hey, Speaker Daschle, let’s raise taxes on the rich so we can pay for more entitlement programs that will make people more dependent on government.”

Daschle: “Great idea…hell…I don’t pay them anyway.”

Tom Daschle, nominated by President Obama to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Nancy Killefer, nominated to scrutinize the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), withdrew their nominations after it came to light that they failed to properly pay their taxes. Timothy Geitner, now in charge of the Treasury Department (and the IRS), also owed thousands of dollars in back taxes and penalties for not paying his taxes. Somehow, despite being a tax cheat, he still managed to get the job as arguably the 3rd most powerful person in Washington D.C.

One of two conclusions can be drawn from this: (1) the tax code is so complicated that even the people who are ostensibly qualified to interpret it can’t, or (2) these people are criminals. I think it is #1….......and #2.

No one can turn a criminal into a victim faster than the left. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) fell all over himself on National Public Radio this week defending Daschle. Rockefeller said that Daschle’s issues arose because he never really had any money, that he was a victim of being poor and not being able to afford the same accountants that rich people had. Oh...uh-huh. Other Democrats ignored Daschle’s sins and offered praise such as “he did the right thing”; “how noble of him to fall on his sword for President Obama”; “he knew there were more important things for the Obama administration to worry about”. Its as if Daschle had done nothing wrong and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy had struck again.

What a great guy…I almost forgot he is a tax cheat and a criminal. Of course, it depends on what the definition of “is” is.