Daschle apologizes for failing to pay taxes

YahooNews ^ | 02/02/2009 | Kevin Freking

[1066AD]

That’s actually the interesting part. All of the real workers in the Obama administration will be in the west wing

Exactly. Politburo.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Exactly. And it would take a lot less than this to get them started.

[popdonnelly]

No need to apologize, Tom. We know you D.C. elitists only care about yourselves, anyway. We’ll act accordingly.

[ItsForTheChildren]

It never dawned on me that I just could have said “I’m sorry.”

It only has meaning if you are deeply sorry.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Taxes are for chumps!......

[EDINVA]

This is sounding more and more like a Helmsley Administration.

[freekitty]

Apology not accepted.

[tbird-james]

enough of the apologies after the holdup.
Do the deed, then a few words of apology, and then continue on with your life.
As the old story goes - do it and then ask for forgiveness if you get caught.
enough of this ***
Where's all the quotes from Daschle about the importance of taxes and paying them and criticism of hose that don't? Read them all at his hearing and then vote against him.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Charitable contributions deducted "in error", discovered by the transition team. $250 grand in "car service" (must have been some car) HE ALREADY KNEW WAS TAXABLE AND INTENTIONALLY AVOIDED PAYING, and a "clerical error" resulting in $88 grand consulting income going unreported.

So for some perspective, in three years the guy has evaded taxes on more than seven times the US median household income - and that's just what we know about so far. The taxes avoided would have provided food and health care for 50 or 60 starving children for a year (the number who died of illness or starvation waiting for their share is unknown), or perhaps given badly needed raises in wages and benefits to the same number of union represented government employees </sarc on that last part just so ya know>. The hypocrisy.

I was happy to see him bumped out of the Senate by the good voters of South Dakota, but maybe the US Treasury would have been money ahead to just keep paying him.

[Uri’el-2012]

In addition to being a tax cheat,

isn't Tom Daschle an UNlicensed lobbyist ?

We know his wife is a lobbyist for those in health care.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Could be. But his position is supposed to be “the one” responsible for giving food & health care to the starving children for “The One”. And we know for sure he has taken food out of their mouths, intentionally.