[silverleaf]

OK, SO his character and judgement is impeccable. He is not a greedy self serving petty egoist who thinks taxes are for the little people ... like Charlie Rangel. This was all just a “mistake”

Why should a guy who is too stupid to understand his own tax forms,

or too stupid to hire a competent CPA to do his taxes....

be made the next US Treasury Secretary?

Should we taxpayers feel a tingle down our legs about his judgment? In the next 12 months we will be expecting him to guide an even dumber person (the prez select) in handing out a $1 trillion dollar “stimulus”

[Red Boots]

Why should a guy who is too stupid to understand his own tax forms,

Oh, come now ! Nobody can understand those darn forms ! You can't blame him for that !

/end extreme sarcasm.

[Proud_texan]

"too stupid"

At the least (if it wasn't intentional).

Going into business for myself the self-employment tax calculation was one of the "can I do this and eat" items and I'm no tax wizard.

I'm stunned that anyone who worked as an independent contractor would overlook something as trivial as this so I have to chalk it up to intentional.

Or maybe someone who has spent his life working for blood sucking taxpayer funded schemes rather than having a real job doesn't think about such things.

We are "governed" by backbenchers.