Nominee tax problems
@wanblygaleshka (72)
United States
February 4, 2009 12:27pm CST
Watching the news last night I was struck by the fact that two more of President Obama's various nominees have had to withdraw from the nomination process because of tax problems. One was confirmed, despite his own tax record and now others are being forced to withdraw. It seems to me that it's "business as usual" in D.C. with the Republicans doing their darndest to thwart anything that a democrat comes up with.
So in answer to all this, I'd like to call for a complete audit of all Republican members of both the House AND the Senate. Let's see how clean all their hands are. In fact, let's simply make it mandatory that ALL members of BOTH houses be audited and let's see just who is and is not cheating on their taxes.
It's real easy to sit in judgement on someone up for nomination, but shouldn't the judges then be held to the same standard?
3 responses
@ladyluna (7004)
• United States
5 Feb 09
Hello Wanblygaleshka,
Welcome back!
I would support that call for a complete audit of every member of Congress, and their families who are in any way financially capitalizing on their influence over voting representatives. Yup, we've got rep's getting rich off of their exemption to not be prosecuted for 'insider trading'. Reps whose husbands have earned millions and millions of taxpayer funds. Reps whose wives and children are earning lobbyist money. Husbands, wives and children who are paid campaign workers, etc...
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@wanblygaleshka (72)
• United States
6 Feb 09
Thank you for the warm welcome back my Lady,
It has been some time since I posted on here. I basically needed a forum to vent in. I've had it up to here w/ politicians getting rich, travelling the world, and making long careers of greed and graft at the expense of the people that they are supposed to represent. It feels to me as if the entire Washington elite has forgotten that they are supposed to be there representing the people that sent them there, not exploiting every opportunity for self gain that they can. I'm glad that the Founding Fathers aren't around to see what has become of their dream. They'd puke first, then be the first ones to call for an armed revolution. It's sad what has happened to that dream of a government of the people, by the people, and FOR the people. Instead we have a government of the politicians, by the political elite, for the self interest of those in power. I doubt that this society has much longer to exist the way it is. I don't call for the overthrow of our government, don't need to, it's doing a fine job of self destructing all on it's own. And I find that too sad for words.
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
4 Feb 09
Oops, hit that darn submit button by accident, to continue...
"others are being forced to withdraw". Nobody was forced to withdraw. Daschle and Killefer withdrew on their own. The worst part is that the one jerk who didn't withdraw is the man now in charge of collecting OUR tax dollars.
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@wanblygaleshka (72)
• United States
4 Feb 09
That's quite alright Taskr,
I've hit the "enter" button while IM'ing more times than I can count and had to send multiple sentences. LOL.
You're right in that they weren't "forced" to withdraw, per se, but the political pressure was mounting to the point where they felt that continuing to try to persue their nominations were pointless.
@newtondak (3946)
• United States
4 Feb 09
They shouldn't have ever been appointed - Obama knew about it before he ever appointed them - they just tried to hide it and get them approved. The one that was approved should be ousted!
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