March 2, 2009
Neverending Story Offers No Glimpse of Ending [Dan Collins]

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee this afternoon revealed that another of President Obama’s nominees — U.S. Trade Representative-designate Ron Kirk — has tax problems.

Finance staff briefed aides to committee members today on the revelations, which indicate the former Dallas mayor underpaid taxes to the tune of $9,975 during 2005-07, and that he has agreed to promptly file adjustments. The underpayments deal in part with speaking honoraria he received that he listed as charitable donations to his alma mater, Austin College.

Kirk instead should have reported the honoraria as taxable income and then deducted the donations. The panel also asked Kirk for substantiation of other charitable donations he has made, including a television set, and it has questioned Kirk’s write-offs of business expenses, including those for Dallas Mavericks season tickets.

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  1. Comment by Phil on 3/2 @ 4:54 pm #

    I love the AP headline for this story:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_go_pr_wh/kirk_taxes

    “Trade Nominee Kirk Agrees to Pay Back Taxes”

    Agrees to? Because, you know, paying taxes is fucking optional.

    If he keeps nominating tax cheats to his Cabinet, Baracky may have this deficit just yet!

  2. Comment by Phil on 3/2 @ 4:55 pm #

    *have = halve

    Pardon me, but I did spend many a year at the public skools.

  3. Comment by ExDip on 3/2 @ 4:58 pm #

    Okay, I’ll bite. How does mayor of Dallas prepare one to be USTR?

  4. Comment by Techie on 3/2 @ 5:00 pm #

    Why file? It’s not like The One Lightworker is going to nominate you for a high-level position……

  5. Comment by Joe on 3/2 @ 5:02 pm #

    Comment by Phil on 3/2 @ 4:54 pm #

    I love the AP headline for this story:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_go_pr_wh/kirk_taxes

    “Trade Nominee Kirk Agrees to Pay Back Taxes”

    Agrees to? Because, you know, paying taxes is fucking optional.

    If he keeps nominating tax cheats to his Cabinet, Baracky may have this deficit just yet!

    It is just amazing. And the MSM is giving The One a complete pass on this crap.

  6. Comment by Techie on 3/2 @ 5:03 pm #

    I can solve the Financial Crisis! Get Democrats to pay their taxes!

    Brilliant!!

  7. Comment by alppuccino on 3/2 @ 5:06 pm #

    I think Bob Gibbs should be banned from talking before 4 pm EST. Barack too. And Axelrod. And Emmanuel. And Geithner.

    But really, if Gibbs has been charged with getting O’s message out, he’s done a great job: Start shitting your pants!

  8. Comment by kelly on 3/2 @ 5:06 pm #

    And the MSM is giving The One a complete pass on this crap.

    I noticed the sun rose in the east this morning as well.

  9. Comment by kelly on 3/2 @ 5:18 pm #

    Okay, I’ll bite. How does mayor of Dallas prepare one to be USTR?

    Step one: don’t pay all of your tax bill.

  10. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/2 @ 5:19 pm #

    Bob Gibbs

    Anyone else get a serious child-molester vibe off of that guy?

  11. Comment by kelly on 3/2 @ 5:19 pm #

  12. Comment by irongrampa on 3/2 @ 5:20 pm #

    Would par for the course work here?

  13. Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/2 @ 5:22 pm #

    The culture of corruption grows and grows.

    Do they feed Democrats agar?

  14. Comment by Tim Mcnabb on 3/2 @ 5:22 pm #

    I know it is a large sum, but relative to what. People like Daschle and Geither who really have no excuse are one thing, but I can see entering this amount into the wrong field and getting the wrong number. Making a mistake, and actually evading taxes are quite different.

    Now that I said that, he’ll be revealed to be a pompous DB.

  15. Comment by Wm T Sherman on 3/2 @ 5:25 pm #

    They want us to pay all our taxes, including some brand new ones, but they don’t pay all of their own. They want to gut the Second Amendment so we won’t have access to guns, which will not affect their safety because they have access to armed security personnel. They want to take away our privacy, but they conduct their own business hidden from view.

  16. Comment by maggie katzen on 3/2 @ 5:25 pm #

    Anyone else get a serious child-molester vibe off of that guy?

    That’s not quite it, but there’s something “off” there.

  17. Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 3/2 @ 5:27 pm #

    That’s not quite it, but there’s something “off” there.

    Yeah. Dead bodies in the basement, maybe?

    Somethign about the boy ain’t right, that’s for sure.

  18. Comment by alppuccino on 3/2 @ 5:27 pm #

    That’s not quite it, but there’s something “off” there.

    I think it’s the child-IQ vibe.

  19. Comment by maggie katzen on 3/2 @ 5:31 pm #

    delusions of adequacy

  20. Comment by kelly on 3/2 @ 5:31 pm #

    Put me down for the “really bad prevaricator” vibe.

  21. Comment by maggie katzen on 3/2 @ 5:32 pm #

    Put me down for the “really bad prevaricator” vibe.

    ding!

  22. Comment by happyfeet on 3/2 @ 5:32 pm #

    Ron Kirk knows better than to get in bed with the Chicago street trash Soros toadies what are defiling our White House. He has more sense than this. Maybe this is his way out.

  23. Comment by Phil on 3/2 @ 5:32 pm #

    Anyone else get a serious child-molester vibe off of that guy?

    That’s not quite it, but there’s something “off” there.

    I think he was Mark Foley’s page at some point. And liked it.

  24. Comment by Semanticleo on 3/2 @ 5:33 pm #

    Cut some slack for the guy. After all, he IS a Texan and we all know what a coozbucket Northern Mexico is.

  25. Comment by alppuccino on 3/2 @ 5:35 pm #

    Yeah. Come to think of it McClellan is a Texan too. Seems that all democrats from Texas are total booger-eaters. Thank for pointing that out leo.

  26. Comment by alppuccino on 3/2 @ 5:36 pm #

    s

  27. Comment by Dan Collins on 3/2 @ 5:37 pm #

    I don’t think they’re taking full advantage of their patriotic privilege, muzsoc

  28. Comment by Semanticleo on 3/2 @ 5:37 pm #

    “Seems that all democrats from Texas are total booger-eaters.”

    Um Yah. That bug exterminator Tom DeLay scrupulously avoids eating his boogers.

  29. Comment by alppuccino on 3/2 @ 5:39 pm #

    Ooh. Burn.

    Let me know when they call you up from double-A leo.

  30. Comment by Techie on 3/2 @ 5:40 pm #

    I’m sensing a culture of something here……..

  31. Comment by kelly on 3/2 @ 5:40 pm #

    Careful, al. She’s just toying with you here. Could be a trap.

  32. Comment by alppuccino on 3/2 @ 5:42 pm #

    I’m not scared.

    Gotta go! Bye!~

  33. Comment by happyfeet on 3/2 @ 5:43 pm #

    Not with Kirk I don’t think. He’s not corrupt that I know of ever. I’m really disappointed in his judgment though. When Baracky asks you to serve your country what you should say is fuck off, shithead and you will be a lot serving your country. Don’t be a dirty socialist collaborator, Ron. You’re better than this.

  34. Comment by router on 3/2 @ 5:44 pm #

    i like tom delay he does hardball

  35. Comment by happyfeet on 3/2 @ 5:46 pm #

    Jeff didn’t like Tom DeLay I think I remember but I always did. Good people. It’s hard to write a chronology where his ouster wasn’t the beginning of the end for the historical shitstain known as the Republican party.

  36. Comment by alppuccino on 3/2 @ 5:48 pm #

    ……and then Charles Krauthammer figuratively throws the rope over the tree branch by saying that part of the market’s plunge is a lack of confidence in the Obama Admin. All that’s left is for Fred Barnes to slap that horse on the ass.

    gimme some water….

    h/t pd buttons

  37. Comment by router on 3/2 @ 6:28 pm #

    He worked real hard to pass the medicare drug entitlement. Thats not socialism

    Voted YES on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients.
    Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003: Vote to adopt the conference report on the bill that would create a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. Starting in 2006, prescription coverage would be made available through private insurers to seniors. Seniors would pay a monthly premium of an estimated $35 in 2006. Individuals enrolled in the plan would cover the first $250 of annual drug costs themselves, and 25 percent of all drug costs up to $2,250. The government would offer a fallback prescription drug plan in regions were no private plans had made a bid.Over a 10 year time period medicare payments to managed care plans would increase by $14.2 billion. A pilot project would begin in 2010 in which Medicare would compete with private insurers to provide coverage for doctors and hospitals costs in six metropolitan areas for six years. The importation of drugs from Canada would be approved only if HHS determines there is no safety risks and that consumers would be saving money.

  38. Comment by router on 3/2 @ 6:31 pm #

    muslim socialist

    like the Grand Mufti, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini

  39. Comment by N. O'Brain on 3/2 @ 6:57 pm #

    Comment by Semanticleo on 3/2 @ 5:33 pm #

    Do you speak English?

  40. Comment by LTC John on 3/2 @ 8:16 pm #

    As there has been no real consequences of nominating (or confirming, hi SecTreas!) tax cheats, tax incompetants, tax oopsers, etc., why not just go for the full thing. Marc Rich for Secretary Without Portfolio!

  41. Comment by Phil on 3/2 @ 8:33 pm #

    As there has been no real consequences of nominating (or confirming, hi SecTreas!) tax cheats, tax incompetants, tax oopsers, etc., why not just go for the full thing. Marc Rich for Secretary Without Portfolio!

    Yes the double standard is blatantly obvious for all to see. Imagine the media reaction if BOOOOSH nominated a whole slew of tax cheats. Well, with the Dems in full control now, it’ll be hard to convince Americans that the economy and their 401Ks are doing just fine thanks and Rush Limbaugh is the real scourge of America.

    Make no mistake about it, they’ll try. But the era of Hope and Change is starting to fade as that cold bitch of reality begins to smack the Democrats and the media in the face. This is precisely why we’re seeing such a concerted “Look, Rush Limbaugh!” attack. What are they going to run on? A promise to reduce the deficit to 1 trillion dollars at some point? Best of luck with that.

  42. Comment by janet on 3/2 @ 11:13 pm #

    Another great choice and decision by Obama. Not even 3 months in and this so called president is making yet another tax evading candidate. Between his policies, choices and beleifs…I think this has got to be the worst start of a president in some time. Is it 2012 yet?? Get rid of Obama!

  43. Comment by Jay on 3/3 @ 1:11 am #

    Next? Bogoyevitch as ethics czar? Great choices Mr. Obama (ooops, voted for you)

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