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.
I love the AP headline for this story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap_on_go_pr_wh/kirk_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!
*have = halve
Pardon me, but I did spend many a year at the public skools.
Okay, I’ll bite. How does mayor of Dallas prepare one to be USTR?
Why file? It’s not like The One Lightworker is going to nominate you for a high-level position……
It is just amazing. And the MSM is giving The One a complete pass on this crap.
I can solve the Financial Crisis! Get Democrats to pay their taxes!
Brilliant!!
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!
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.
Okay, I’ll bite. How does mayor of Dallas prepare one to be USTR?
Step one: don’t pay all of your tax bill.
Bob Gibbs
Anyone else get a serious child-molester vibe off of that guy?
Would par for the course work here?
The culture of corruption grows and grows.
Do they feed Democrats agar?
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.
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.
That’s not quite it, but there’s something “off” there.
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.
That’s not quite it, but there’s something “off†there.
I think it’s the child-IQ vibe.
delusions of adequacy
Put me down for the “really bad prevaricator” vibe.
ding!
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.
I think he was Mark Foley’s page at some point. And liked it.
Cut some slack for the guy. After all, he IS a Texan and we all know what a coozbucket Northern Mexico is.
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.
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I don’t think they’re taking full advantage of their patriotic privilege, muzsoc
“Seems that all democrats from Texas are total booger-eaters.”
Um Yah. That bug exterminator Tom DeLay scrupulously avoids eating his boogers.
Ooh. Burn.
Let me know when they call you up from double-A leo.
I’m sensing a culture of something here……..
Careful, al. She’s just toying with you here. Could be a trap.
I’m not scared.
Gotta go! Bye!~
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.
i like tom delay he does hardball
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.
……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
muslim socialist
like the Grand Mufti, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini
Comment by Semanticleo on 3/2 @ 5:33 pm #
Do you speak English?
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.
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!
Next? Bogoyevitch as ethics czar? Great choices Mr. Obama (ooops, voted for you)