NY POST - Feb 3, 2009
Did the Democrats adopt a plank in their party platform last summer re quiring all of their top dogs to have serious personal tax problems?
Sure looks that way.
Tom Daschle admits that he failed to pay more than $120,000 in taxes on a private car and driver furnished to him for personal use over three years by a media mogul buddy - yet he's still expected to win confirmation as secretary of health and human services.
That's not surprising - as a former Senate majority leader, Daschle has a whole lot of Capitol Hill IOUs.
But given the tax delinquencies of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, it makes you wonder whether these guys have any shame at all. (continues...)
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