Posted on 10/04/2012 3:12:04 PM PDT by Rio
Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin on Thursday released a decade's worth of federal financial reports he has updated with nearly $130,000 in state pension income that he received, but failed to disclose, over that time.
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I thought not paying your taxes wasn’t such a big deal.
It sounds like Akin, at least paid up, even if somewhat belatedly. However, I don't recall Geithner and company ever having to pay their tax tab back before being allowed to serve as the Secretary of the Treasury. Not to mention the clear moral conflict of having a likely, if not proven, tax cheater managing the Treasury Department. Hmmm. What could possibly go wrong?
Unfortunately, I was the one who lit the fire. When I discovered it, I filed amended tax returns May 15, 2012; paid the associated taxes, interest and penalties.
That ignited a sh@tstorm that is apparently never going to end.
Next time, I will just wait until the Gestapo finds me.
The purpose of the disclosure forms is so that the public can know where a politician is getting his money from, and whether he's using his political office for personal gain (like awarding government contracts to businesses that pay him money). Pension income is irrelevant to that purpose.
“Todd Akin failed to report state pension income”
And how does this compare to ObamaClaire’s husband profiting off of the Obummer spending bills ObamaClaire voted for?
What’s next, Akin caught on videotape jaywalking?
I think the good voters of Missouri can figure out who is doing more damage to the republic and Akin will come out on top of that analysis.
Just use the rats excuse, it was an oversite.
Oooh, you're right...if he'd just not paid taxes on this income, it would be a resume enhancer. Like for the Dim's, right?
On this issue however, McCaskill getting a $40,000/yr Missouri pension??? for what???
Why aren't these "retired" politicians required to wait until 65 to start collecting like the rest of the plebeians who pay their salary???
Not only that, she leased her airplane to the gubmint so every time she used it for "official business" she got a charge-back!
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