someone forgot to pay their taxes and employed an illegal...

[catamount man]

...but I guess the MSM was too busy tongueing Obama's ass to report it.

If he was a conservative........wow............

Don't think REAL Americans didn't notice. Peace BITCHES!!!

[dbackjon]

Who are you talking about? One of Obama's appointees fits your tax description - but MSM has been all over it, and covered here as well...

[travelinman67]

Who are you talking about? One of Obama's appointees fits your tax description - but MSM has been all over it, and covered here as well...

MSM's given Geithner a pass. Spend some time Googling "tax cheat", "cheated on taxes", then preface both with "Obama", then do the same with "Bush".

Same ol', same ol'...

Bush appears with "cheat" to NYT, WAPO, Slate, DU, Huffington Post, etc...

Obama only appears with "cheat at Townhall, Newsbusters, and a sh!tload of bloggers.

Now, I realize the results can be skewed by Google or merely indicative of each "sides" spin, but the results are the same: The results obtainable by the public are biased.

Catamount is right. The press have their head so far up Obama's azz or have been intimidated by Obama enforcers like Ken Shapiro, that the public will never know what goes on in the White House.
He'll end up like Bush...surrounded by a pack of sycophants, living in a bubble.

[dbackjon]

You too are so funny. Bush had 8 years of cheating to Google.

And on the tax issue, there is no proof that Geithner knew he was cheating. As soon as it was brought to his attention (pre nomination), he paid the taxes.

The "illegal" issue is one that is just surfacing, and is being widely reported, just like the tax issue.

Just because it is not the lead on many places (with everything that is going on, I wouldn't expect it too) doesn't mean it is not getting reported.

Seriously, MSM coddled Bush after 9/11. Republicans like you two should have ZERO complaints about MSM.

[ASUMountaineer]

You too are so funny. Bush had 8 years of cheating to Google.

And on the tax issue, there is no proof that Geithner knew he was cheating. As soon as it was brought to his attention (pre nomination), he paid the taxes.

The "illegal" issue is one that is just surfacing, and is being widely reported, just like the tax issue.

Just because it is not the lead on many places (with everything that is going on, I wouldn't expect it too) doesn't mean it is not getting reported.

Seriously, MSM coddled Bush after 9/11. Republicans like you two should have ZERO complaints about MSM.

This much you are correct about and it was disgraceful. Thanks to that we ended up more government and more spending than we could have imagined and it is bankrupting and killing this country.

[JMU DJ]

You too are so funny. Bush had 8 years of cheating to Google.

And on the tax issue, there is no proof that Geithner knew he was cheating. As soon as it was brought to his attention (pre nomination), he paid the taxes.

The "illegal" issue is one that is just surfacing, and is being widely reported, just like the tax issue.

Just because it is not the lead on many places (with everything that is going on, I wouldn't expect it too) doesn't mean it is not getting reported.

Seriously, MSM coddled Bush after 9/11. Republicans like you two should have ZERO complaints about MSM.

This much you are correct about and it was disgraceful. Thanks to that we ended up more government and more spending than we could have imagined and it is bankrupting and killing this country.

Great points, not to mention all the civil liberties and constitutional rights that Bush trampled on... in the words of Tweedledee himself the constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper."


.... yeah, a REAL American wouldn't do anything like this to his nation right?

[Appaholic]

This is old news....give it a rest...Bush realizes Kerik wasn't the best person to nominate for Homeland Security Director....



http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/kerik-tax-chart/

-- Bribery. Accepted $255,000 worth of renovations to his apartment in an upscale section of the Bronx from a mob-connected construction company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, that sought his help in winning city contracts. Kerik was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections at the time. He already admitted to charges from city prosecutors that the payments constituted an illegal gift.
-- Tax fraud. Kerik failed to report $236,269 in rent for his Upper East Side apartment where he lived from December 2001 to December 2003 with his family. One of the city's biggest real estate developers, Steve Witkoff, paid the $9,650 in monthly rent. Kerik asked for Witkoff's help with the apartment while he was still police commissioner of NYC, and the real estate mogul made the payments because the two "anticipated doing business in the future."

-- More tax fraud. Kerik also failed to disclose $20,000 in consulting fees from a computer software company and $75,953 in royalties for writing his autobiography.

-- Even more tax fraud. Kerik failed to report wages paid to his nanny (more about that below), claimed $80,000 in phony charitable contributions, and falsely claimed a home office deduction for a home he had not moved into yet.

-- False statements. Lied on application for head of Department of Homeland Security about the nanny, payments from the construction company, and other things he preferred to keep quiet.




Oh...you were talking about someone else....

[ASUMountaineer]

This much you are correct about and it was disgraceful. Thanks to that we ended up more government and more spending than we could have imagined and it is bankrupting and killing this country.

Great points, not to mention all the civil liberties and constitutional rights that Bush trampled on... in the words of Tweedledee himself the constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper."


.... yeah, a REAL American wouldn't do anything like this to his nation right?

Yeah, I didn't go into those issues...little at a time for those still liking the guy. No REAL American would do such a thing, neither would a REAL Republican.

[travelinman67]

You too are so funny. Bush had 8 years of cheating to Google.

...I said "tax cheat" or "cheated on taxes". How is it that Townhall and Newbuster's articles on Geithner were picked up, but none by the "pack-o'-liars" over at DNC-Mouthpiece Central?

And on the tax issue, there is no proof that Geithner knew he was cheating. As soon as it was brought to his attention (pre nomination), he paid the taxes.

The "illegal" issue is one that is just surfacing, and is being widely reported, just like the tax issue.

Ummm...

...has anyone even thought to consider a more sublime issue...that of "Total Earnings" and FICA subject wage during those years. "Tax" posters, listen up...

The FICA subject wage during the period Geithner worked for IMF was

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2001.....80,400
2002.....84,900
2003.....87,000
2004.....87,900
2005.....90,000
2006.....94,200

...in question is that Geithner's FICA subject taxable earnings, before factoring in the IMF wages, were apparently low enough that the IMF wage was subject to FICA contribution...

Got it?

So, Geithner's non-IMF taxable wage for those years fell below the earnings limit... ????????

In 2001, he was Undersecretary to the Sec. of Treasury, in 2002, seved as a Sr. Fellow at the council on foreign relations, in late 2003, he was named President of the Federal Reserve Bank, until 2006 when he was appointed to an advisory board on the IMF related, Rockefeller Foundation initiated, "Group of Thirty".

Yet, during those times, his non-IMF subject FICA taxable wage did not exceed $80,000-$100,000?????

Ohhh...kayyy...

Jon...you're a bean counter...did I miss something?

Aren't foreign earnings treated in effect similar to "third party payment" FICA contributions?

I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions to the limits, yet, I'm not aware of any for U.S. resident, non-alien, non-qualified plan subject wages.

For the dumby donks who are ready to click "Post Reply" so they can respond, "Who cares"...this goes to ethics and integrity, not due to a failure to pay the self employment tax, but because a person with Geithner's credentials shoud be earning $300k to $2m per year, easy...!!!!! Which means he's either sheltering his earnings, or has a portfolio set up to wipe out his total subject wage tax base every year...

...either way, the guy's paying a lower tax rate than 'Joe the Plumber, and probably less than you or I.