Closing Arguments: Geithner’s Tax Problem?

Yes, he should be disqualified.

The IRS takes my assets or sends me to jail if I don’t pay my income taxes. He fails the test for an appointment and president elect loses integrity.

If change is to be change we can believe in, we need a person who has historically been someone who is honest regarding his own money and taxes. There is no way he should be trusted with our billions. Income tax mistakes and no payment of 34k over three years is not a one time mistake…

Absolutely, he should be disqualified. What is this “honest mistake”? He ought to know that he has to pay taxes on his income.

It would be like having the fox watch the chickens. If not paying his taxes is an honest mistake,,,what other kind of “honest mistakes” has he,,or could he make?
We need well qualified professionals in office, not “friends”. The leaders of all the companies that asked for bailouts,,they full well knew what was going on, we dont need that in our govt too. It’s time for change,,yes,, to honesty, and sensible spending. No more pork barrel,, waste,,more check and balance,,
Thanx,,a retired tax payer, tired of my tax $$$ being wasted,,,,, JW

Would you make an excuse for me if I don’t pay my taxes for years? Forgot??

Wow, if I didn’t pay my taxes I’d lose everything and be in jail and you want to put him in charge of the Treasury???? I guess the IRS never sent him a notice of taxes due or he ignored them? You must be kidding!

“Honest mistake” my foot! He was a SENIOR official in the International Money Market! He needed H&R Block to file his taxes? Give me a break. He is going to get it, unfortunately, but he shouldn’t. The highest post in the land to watch for our money must be transparent and efficient. No “oops!”

If we disqualify Mr. Geither then we should also disqualify Summers, Hillary, Holder, and Emanuel. They are all tainted and should get the boot.
I suspect Obama will circle the wagons and try to protect them. For this, he will pay a political price. Just as George Bush was judged harshly for going back on his no new taxes pledge (read my lips), Obama will be judged harshly if he does not produce an administration that produces real change. This is after all what he promised during the campaign.
Change here means getting rid of politicians that have used and abused the system for personal profit. Greed and arrogance are not principles of change.

YES, he should be disqualified.
Also, if someone in govt does not have to pay the tax penalties, then non govt people should not have to pay tax penalties either.
Govt officers, congressman, senators and employees should not think they are above the law.

If the situation were reversed, I guarantee the Dems would be crying ‘FOUL’ and insist Gethners placement should not be allowed…making way for some sort of backroom deal for some future quid pro quo.

Don’t have any bad will toward the guy, but one’s credulity would be sorely tested.

Of course this man should be disqualified. But I’m sure he won’t be. The Dem’s will make excuses for him, like Harry Reid’s…”It’s just a few hiccups” I think not paying your taxes for almost 4 years is more than a hiccup. And they want this man in charge of our tax codes, etc. Maybe that means if he is in, then all of us should just forget to pay our taxes for a few years too and call it “doing a Geithner” and see if we get away with it. Great “Change” that Obama is bringing with him to WA.

Disqualify him. Sorry, but $3400 is an honest mistake. $34,000 is either really dumb or a tax cheat. My husband is self employed, and we know that if you miss one payment by a week or two the federal and state tax people will be all over you in a heartbeat.We found out the first month in business that you pay taxes monthly when you are self employed. Guess you have to know someone inside the beltway to be able to cheat on your taxes and then get an appointment to be the Secretary of the Treasury. Hey, give me back my tax money. I would take better care of it myself. Thanks

Obamas “tough” vetting staff cleared this guy? This guy reminds me more of a Republican than “change I can believe in.” What a joke.

Paulette Sheward: “My husband is self employed, and we know that if you miss one payment by a week or two the federal and state tax people will be all over you in a heartbeat.We found out the first month in business that you pay taxes monthly when you are self employed.”
You must be talking about state taxes. Federal taxes are quarterly payments. And, having missed some taxes myself, it took the IRS 2 years to notice and when they did they treated me just like Geithner or any other taxpayer – they sent a notice with tax payable, interest and penalty, I paid it, and was done. Your arguments would be far more convincing if you didn’t embellish and exaggerate.

He should without question be disqualified. This smacks of dishonesty.

Just another example of the “same old same old” this administration employs, from its linkage to the cash milking of FNMA to hiring Hilary, a truth-challenged person as Sec’y of State

REPUBS GET OVER IT…
1)Tim Geithner is not a politician. He is the Federal Reserve Top Guy in NY
2) Obama Vetting process did uncover the unpaid taxes and not Senate hearings. Press is playing fool here.
3) As soon as vetting uncovered unpaid taxes, Tim paid the back taxes with interest.
4)Life is not in black and white. IMF provides its US employees with W2 but treats US citizens not an employee but independent contractors. So the unpaid taxes were the ones that you have to pay if you are self employed. It was a mistake yes but I think this mistake deserve benefit of doubt as this is not same as not filing your tax returns.
5) Instead of filing multiple comments under different pseudo names…folks go get a life..
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Tough_Luck,
Get Over it My @ss !!!
Try growing up!
This is guy is a complete FRAUD! NO ONE in this guy’s position makes this “mistake”. FOUR YEARS IN A ROW!!!
your points…
1. Who cars if he is a politicain or not. That changes nothing about his responsibilty.
2. This supposedly briulliant man could not add 2 + 2! He just “forgot he was in the EXACT same situation for his ’01 & 02 taxes ??????? COME ON NOW!!!
3. As soon as someone ORDERED him to pay them because there would be political fallout….He complied.
4. I am contractor who has worked for companies that just issused checks to pay my billable hours. I KNOW, REPEAT KNOW, that I OWE taxes on that money! I plan for that and the accountant that does my taxes helps me to esimate how much money I will have to set aside to handle that.
In the REAL world, we called that PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY!
5. I only have this one name here, and if you and your liberal buddies cannot handle the fact that Obama’s fraud appointees are going to be treated in the same manner that you have treated Bush, too bad!… In your own words…GET OVER IT!!!
This guy (As Well As Charlie Rangel) should be tossed right now!!!

NO! NO! NO! This person is either stupid, incompetent, or a crook. Maybe is is some of all. I don’t care how “qualified” he is for this or anything else, there are SERIOUS red flags waving in front of this country. If Obama allows this candidate to cross the line into his administration, that will tell me a lot more about Obama. PAY ATTENTION TO THE ACTIONS!

Hmmm. I kinda like the idea of having a guy in there who has experienced “life under the angry and intimidating eye” of the IRS, himself. That would be interesting. Maybe it will take someone like that with such an experience fresh on their minds to get the code’s complications and dysfunction gutted and simplified so that others will not find themselves in that same situation. In fact, why don’t we find someone who has been hounded over and over again by the IRS? Let them loose to reform this agency from the inside out?
:-)

I think people need to find something
esle to talk about. If you are going to
look for dirt then looking in your own
closet.

yes it should disqulifie him. No excuse as we all know what we have to include in our taxes.

He should be disqualified. How can OBama seriously considering him for this position? I do my elderly folks tax return each year and the IRS sends them a statement for appox. $68 penalty for not estimating their yearly taxes. This guy did not pay over $34,000. I wonder if they would put my 90 year old Dad and 85 year old mother in jail for not paying $68. Maybe I’ll tell them not to send the IRS any owed money this year and see if the IRS “forgives” me!!

No, he should not run the Nation’s Treasury Department! For God’s sake any third grader could figure that out.

Yes, He should be disqualified !
How does anyone with financial expertise forget to pay $34,000.00 ?
NOT $34.00, NOT $3,400.00 but $34,000.00
for several years ?
Now this man is going to be in charge of the Country’s money ?
OBAMA Mania at it’s BEST !
Lola

He should be disqualified. I go to a tax consultant every year to do my taxes and one year my home was destroyed by fire and I had to use my retirement savings and I had to pay taxes a year later on my retirement savings even though it was a small amount. Why did it take the IRS so long to tell him he owed that amount of money. Low income citizens are penalized more than rich citizens.

I dunno? What I do know is I’ve personally made mistakes on my tax returns with no malfeasance intended. The IRS discovered the mistake and billed me and I gladly paid the amount owed including interest because it was my mistake. Furthermore, I have overpaid my taxes and the IRS has sent me a refund including interest.

If Timothy Geithner made honest mistakes on his tax returns he is not qualifed to be the Secretary of the Treasury Department much less the head of the IRS. The mistakes he made should be known by any tax preparer and would be criminal for an average citizen. These mistakes are felonies and are punishable by up to 3 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. To top it off, Mr. Geithner didn’t pay the taxes until now. He was also spared the penalites a normal citizen would have been required to pay. I know people who went to prison for actually making mistakes on tax returns. Where is the equality of justice in the United States? Confirming Timothy Geithner proves there is NO change coming the Washington. It will continue to be politics as usual. Everything old is new again!

It is not honest to say something like this is an “honest mistake.” If he was a Republican, you can be sure the Dems would have disqualified him immediately and instigated an investigation besides. He is NOT qualified–4 years of not paying taxes!!!

Should Geithner be Secty. of Treas?
!!!!NO WAY!!!!
If you are supposed to lead by example, what sort of example would this be setting for the rest of us poor slobs?
Geithner could hardly be considered a “Babe in the Woods” when he began working for the IMF. The company issued W-2′s but according to sources, did not withhold and match Soc. Sec. and MediCare. Inasmuch as Mr. Geithner, by his own reported admission, filed his own 2001,2002,&2003 tax returns, he couldn’t but have looked at the W-2′s from IMF. The rather glaring empty blocks on the IMF W-2′s for FICA and Medicare wages should have been a warning to Geithner that something was amiss, prompting a visit to that firm’s
payroll and/or HR departments for clarification and/or correction.

The press goes too easy on Obama. Geithner broke the law, knowingly, on two different issues, over and over again. He gets rewarded with a cabinet position gift from Obama???????? That is just not right. Bad example for this country.
It says again, like with the Kennedys, that if you have the right contacts and/or money you can buy anything in this country. After all, Obama bought the election. Now he is selling out to and rewarding the crooks like he did in Illinois. Kennedy got by with murder and bought elections with his family’s money.

Obama needs to get another candidate in there.
Geithner has lost credibility. It’s like hiring a
bartender who is also an alcoholic.

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