Is Nomination of Tax Cheat Turned Treasury Sec Geithner Really Essential?
Timothy Geithner’s nomination as Treasury Secretary is in a spot of trouble given the irony of the man who would be charged with enforcing our tax laws being himself a documented tax cheat. I’m willing to look at the domestic employee being illegal issue is not that big of a deal – which makes me FAR more non-partisan than Democrats who exploded the nominations of Bush cabinet picks Bernard Kerick and Linda Chavez over the same issue. But the tax issue ought to be a real thorn in the side of an administration that preached openness and honesty. The Obama team is depicting Geithner’s under- or non-payment of taxes for six years as some minor oversight, but it is anything but. The facts are: 1) Geithner had to sign a document for the IMF saying he knew he was responsible and would pay the taxes in question, and he even accepted money from them to pay the taxes; and 2) shouldn’t the man in charge of the nation’s treasury and taxes at least understand his own finances and taxes? As a McCla
