Prominent people have, over the past few months, taught us things about taxes. Our teachers have gone from the very lowly (see Joe the Plumber) to the very sophisticated (see Tom Daschle).
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
The modern version of: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" has arrived. It is: "Let he (or she) who has not told his accountant to do whatever they can in order to pay the least taxes cast the first stone."
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011
Tom Daschle's resignation should have been accepted, however, that of Nancy Killefer should have been refused. Responses must be tailored to the "sin." Not all imperfections make a person unfit for office.
Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011
In view of the "tax problems" that are plaguing the confirmation of Barack Obama's nominees, I have a modest proposal.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
Critics of President Obama will use the Daschle incident to claim that Obama is not really about change, and is captive of the same politicians and lobbyists who have always run Washington.
New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 05.25.2011
In just a couple of hours on Tuesday, two high-level nominees for jobs in the Obama administration took themselves out of the running because of tax p...
Joe Trippi | Posted 05.25.2011
Like many decent people, Daschle got caught in a bad system that is so corrupted by money it hardly matters whether the money is from good people with good intentions or bad people with bad intentions.
Paul Szep | Posted 05.25.2011
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.25.2011
The only thing more implausible than believing that a multi-millionaire with national ambitions would willfully try to defraud the IRS of $140,000 is believing that a man like that actually does his own taxes.
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
Though Obama won on promises to challenge Wall Street, there has been a calculated effort to stack the administration with the very Wall Street Democrats who created the problems he lamented.
Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 05.25.2011
When our leaders, or even our potential leaders, fail to contribute to the collective good, it feeds our lack of faith in them as stewards of the incredible coercive power of government.
Jamie Court | Posted 05.25.2011
Daschle isn't irreplaceable for health care reformers, but Obama would make a big mistake in appointing a replacement with any lessor convictions on a public heath care option.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Both the New York Times and The Nation have called for President Obama's Health and Human Services nominee to withdraw from contention over unpaid tax...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Those who defend Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle on the recently revealed news that he failed to pay taxes on the most expensive car ser...
The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011
Can health care reform go ahead, this year, even without Tom Daschle? Yes. Does this episode--and Daschle's absence--make the task of enacting health...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
Tom Daschle backed the patron who paid him a million-dollar salary and supplied him with a free car and driver for a job inside the Obama administrati...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: February 3, 1:05PM ET: Additional reporting by Sam Stein and Rachel Weiner WASHINGTON -- Tom Daschle withdrew Tuesday as President Barack Oba...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama is mulling a controversial new tax program that would require members of his Cabinet to pay taxes owed under the Federal tax code, the White House confirmed today.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011