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Obama's nominee for trade representative faces tax questions
Mar 2, 2009, 22:18 GMT
Washington - Ron Kirk, President Barack Obama's nominee for US trade representative, will have to pay nearly 10,000 dollars in back income taxes owed on speaking fees he was paid over the last four years, according to a Senate report released Monday.
Kirk, a former mayor of Dallas, becomes the fifth major Obama nominee to face tax problems. But the issue was not expected to derail Kirk's approval by the Senate to be the chief trade negotiator for the US government.
The Senate Finance Committee said in a report that Kirk had failed from 2004-07 to register 37,750 dollars in lecturing fees as taxable income, because he had arranged for the money to be donated to a scholarship fund for his former university, Austin College.
Kirk should have paid 9,975 dollars in taxes on the speaking fees before handing them over to the college. The committee said Kirk has agreed to pay the taxes and has scheduled a hearing on Kirk's nomination for next week.
'Mayor Kirk is the right person for this job, and I will work to move his nomination quickly,' Max Baucus, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement.
Two of Obama's previous nominees - Thomas Daschle for health secretary and Nancy Killefer as chief performance officer - were forced to withdraw their names from consideration last month over tax problems.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was approved despite a tax issue related to his work for the International Monetary Fund, while Labour Secretary Hilda Solis was approved amid tax questions over her husband's business.
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Democrats are experts at raising taxes and spending, yet just can't bring themselves to pay their own.
- Kennedy paid 1 % on a $1 Billion dollar empire ('family trust')
- Teresa Kerry 14% on $780 Million
Democrats are like the fungus you can't quite scrape off your shoe
EssPee is back on his illicit drugs.
Take a look at grasscity.com ... search the posts for username 'sp4'.
You'll see he's been busy over there learning how to grow his own dope, and talking about how much he loves it.
By the nature of his posts on this forum, I'd say it looks like he's succeeded in growin' that good weed.
Unpaid taxes, hiring of illegals to be house keepers, corruption at all levels of the US Government. Council of Foreign Relations, along with The Jewish Anti Defamation League, dictating to the US, what the Foreign and Domestic Policy's of the US will be. Fighting 2 wars that no government will never win, just to benefit the CEO's of makers of military hardware.. Look at the past failures of other governments in Afghanistan, for example. British had over 200,000 troops in the 19th century, resulted in breaking the Bank of England, they pulled out. Soviets in the 20th century had over 500,000 troops, they to were defeated and also broke thier bank, then pulled out. High unemployment getting even higher in the coming months, that will result in a depression, then riots over food. China has been given the Green Light to take any land, buildings and natural resources, from the US, if we miss paying them for the money we borrowed form them, to run The US Government. GEE, you wonder why the guns are flying off the shelves !!
********The time is nearing to overthrow this corrupt government*********
And so it is...........................
...oh...god.... change you can believe in! With stuff like this, who would ever need a joint?
..libnazis that they cannot see the obvious weakness of the boy-king who needs these old Clinton apparatachicks so bad, due to a lack of his own real machine, that he must trot them up in front of Congress, in an embarrassing display as their tax shortcomings are brought forth, and the corrupt left green lights it through as though the dems are cloned Jack Abramoffs?
Ah, so someone went and checked him out, for themselves. This is good. Those 13 posts sure do show what an complete a-hole SP is. I'm sure the DEA is watching him. Just wait for the knock at the door, SP. It's coming.
Hey SP4 ...
Have you noticed that NOT ONE post here is defending the nominees tax problem .... not one!
No you haven't noticed that, have you?
Yet you write 'What is it about libnazis that they cannot see the obvious weakness of the boy-king'
Show me the post SP4, on this article, where someone defends the tax avoidance of nominees, then you'll have a valid point.
Otherwise, you're just drawing your incorrect assumptions ... again.
But we know you have no shame SP4, only eagerness to jump to false conclusions.
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BTW, did you ever figure out where to get your Compact Fluorescent Grow Lights? Are you growing Indica or Sativa pot plants?
what is it about sp4 you ask.
the answer is he is nuts and wins the asshole of the year award each and every year .lance comes in second asshole booby prize
...really weak posts. Drugs...insults, just more libnazi slam mail. No one defending tax avoidence? Let's start with the President...certainly HE had to know! This is libnazi elitism at it's best i.e. YOU have to pay but WE do not!
Now, find idiot boy #12 and get him to post another paragraph on drugs. I'm sure EVERYONE is dying for that!
SP4 ... in many, many posts on this forum, I point out and label your posts as 'weak' (my choice of words, because it most aptly describes you) ...
Now you choose to steal my keywords, about you?
Is that the best you can do?
If your arguments weren't so 'weak' you could do better.
Now that's comedy.
SP4 you are an insult. Nearly every post of yours is filled with insults.
And you think you have a vlid point in criticizing others for insults?
Weak.
Very Weak.
A weak Hypocrite = SP4
He writes 'Let's start with the President...certainly HE had to know!'
So using your logic SP4 ... Obama knew that the nominee was vulnerable to tax charges ... but went ahead and nominated them anyway.
Suuuure ... Obama is gonna nominate someone and knowingly put himslef up to harsh criticisim from ALL sides, for what 'he knew to be' a denial of nomination.
And he did that on purpose.
And that somehow makes sense to you?
Sure SP1/4 of a brain.
Do you realize how stupid your nonsensical assumption is?
It might make sense in your world ... but not in one that's remotely logical.
Hmmm ... I'd have to call your logic skills pretty weak.
You can find plenty of them at grasscity.com ... search the posts for username sp4.
SP4 has plenty of comments on how much he loves getting stoned ... even a little story about how he came to deciding to start using them for himself ... and of course, many questions from him on how to grow his own pot.
Check it out.
You can learn a lot about sp4 there.
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SP4: OhMar 2nd, 2009 - 23:57:00
...god!
hahahahahahahaha!
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