{"id":490,"date":"2009-02-01T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-02-01T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:37:16","slug":"but_mom_i_did_close_the_door_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"But, Mom, I Did Close The Door (After I Let The Cat Out)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/01\/bumps-in-the-ro.html\">ABC News<\/a>, it seems as if the best way to deal with people who don&#8217;t pay their income taxes is to let them know they are being considered for public office at the federal level.&nbsp; Former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., nominated to be President Obama&#8217;s Secretary of Health and Human Services, has paid off taxes he &#8216;overlooked&#8217; previously.&nbsp; During the vetting process to become HHS secretary, Daschle corrected&nbsp;his tax violations, voluntarily paying $101,943 in back taxes plus interest, working with his accountant to amend his tax returns for 2005 through 2007.&nbsp; Those numbers represent a pretty large &#8216;overlook&#8217;.&nbsp; Does he need a new accountant?<\/p>\n<p>This is the same tactic used by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.&nbsp; After he was nominated for the office of Treasury Secretary, he paid the taxes he owed and apologized for not paying them.&nbsp; I guess my questions is, &#8220;If he had not been nominated for Treasury Secretary, would he have paid his taxes?&#8221;&nbsp; The same question applies to Tom Daschle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ABC News, it seems as if the best way to deal with people who don&#8217;t pay their income taxes is to let them know they are being considered for public office at the federal level.&nbsp; Former Senator Majority &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=490\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}