Today I received an email titled “Avoiding IRS fines and penalties”. I didn’t bother to open it because I already had the answer. No seminar and no fees. All I need to do is have President Obama nominate me to a cabinet position.

Tom Daschle is the newest tax cheat revelation in Obama’s “Change You Can Believe In Ethically Pure” administration. But Daschle’s $128,000 in back taxes must have Tim Geithner, the new tax cheat Treasury Secretary, celebrating. These guys can certainly put their accountants on speed dial when nominations come around. These Obama appointments are the best thing to happen to the accounting profession since Sarbanes-Oxly.

            As a former democrat senate majority leader, Daschle was great at the most opportune times to say the rich were not paying their fair share in taxes. And now we know why. Daschle thought everyone else was evading taxes like he was. That is, everyone rich enough, to hide that much income.

            President Obama wasn’t worried, saying he expected Daschle to be confirmed. And why not? Harry Reid is sure to turn his two blind eyes to tax evasion once again and usher his predecessor on through. In this old boys club of the senate a democrat could be indicted for blackmail and espionage and still get 51 democrat votes –at least.

            No, Obama was more upset with those Wall Street firms paying $18 billion in bonuses. He actually said now is not the time to make profits. Joe Biden wants to “throw them in the brig”. Who? Neither of these guys in their indignation bothered to cite who paid the bonuses and who received them. It’s just Wall Street and they stink.

            But those bonuses don’t fund the government. Taxes do. And we know who did not pay their taxes on time. You’d think there would be some indignation about that from our president. But right now funding the government does not seem to be a big concern. The priority is spending the government’s (our) money on every pet liberal constituency group, from wherever that money can be borrowed. Now that, my friends, is a shameful bonus (almost one trillion dollars) paid to the producers of the last election cycle victories.