posted March 04, 2009 12:32 PM            

The head tax evader was appointed Sec Treasury...the person in charge of seeing to it that every American pays their income taxes.

Oh, but get this...this tax evader has agreed to pay his taxes. Since when do people get to "agree" to pay taxes they owe? You pay or you get prosecuted....unless you're an O'Bomber appointee and then, your income tax evasion earns you a Cabinet Post.

This White House is a Circus we can believe in, better by far than Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey.

Obama trade nominee Ron Kirk agrees to pay back taxes
By Associated Press
Monday, March 2, 2009

WASHINGTON — Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday.

The committee said the taxes arise from Kirk’s handling of speaking fees that he donated to his alma mater, and for his deduction of the full cost of season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team.

The disclosure made the former Dallas mayor the latest in a string of top-level Obama administration appointees found to have underpaid their taxes, following Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle, who withdrew as candidate for Health and Human Services secretary. Nancy Killefer, Obama’s pick for chief performance officer, also bowed out amid tax problems.

There was no immediate reaction from the White House to the underpayments, which were uncovered by the committee’s staff in a review of Kirk’s nomination papers.

Despite the error, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued a statement calling Kirk "the right person for this job," and said he would attempt to have the nomination moved through the panel quickly.

Kirk routinely gave any speaking fees he earned to Austin College, the committee said, and did not list them on his tax returns.

Instead, the committee said he should have listed the fees as income, then claimed them as charitable donations. The estimated effect was to reduce Kirk’s tax bill by an estimated $5,800, according to the report.

Kirk also deducted more than $17,000 as entertainment expenses for the cost of Mavericks’ tickets. The committee said he substantiated about $9,900 of that amount, and will owe about $2,600 in taxes on the balance.

posted March 05, 2009 10:26 AM            

Interview between FBI Special Agent and bank robber.

FBI: OK pal we've got you for bank robbery, transporting stolen property across state lines, transporting stolen property across international borders, income tax evasion, theft by computer fraud and...

Robber: Hey, listen up, I never robbed no bank. What bank am I supposed to have robbed.

FBI: Pottawatomie Mutual.

Robber: Never ever been in that bank. You got maybe some video tape of me robbing that bank?

FBI: You hacked into their computer system, established a phony account in the name of Henry Smyth showing a $300,000 account balance, then had the banks computers immediately wire transfer $300,000 to an offshore account in the Canary Islands where you had left instructions to split up the money and immediately wire transfer the funds to 3 accounts in Panama, where you had left instructions to split the money and wire transfer $50,000 to 6 different accounts in 6 different names to the Monumental Gold Vault in New York where you had left instructions to immediately purchase $50,000 in gold bars from 6 different accounts you opened there. We've got video from Monumental's security cameras of you loading the gold into a van. It took us 2 years to track these transactions and find you but we've got you cold. Now, where's the money?

Robber: What money? In your wild scenario there is no money, never was any money and whatever imaginary money there ever was is turned into gold.

FBI: The bank had to make good on your computer generated wire transfer. They were forced to take $300,000 from the banks account and pay your Canary Island bank. They want their $300,000 back.

Robber: Well, I'm not admitting anything here but strictly as a hypothetical; what if I gave the bank the gold?

FBI: The bank wants their $300,000 back in cash. They don't have a gold vault, don't deal in gold and they want their cash back.

Robber: Well, I'm still not admitting anything but gold has gone up 30% since you allege I stole $300,000 from that bank. The bank would be up $90,000 if they got their hands on that alleged gold.

FBI: My instructions are to get the bank their $300,000 and they're willing to not press charges if you "agree" to return their money..and if you "agree" to tell them how you hacked into their computer system.

Robber: So, let me see if I understand you. If I "agree" to convert that alleged gold to cash, "agree" to give $300,000 to the bank to cover the alleged robbery, "agree" to tell the bank how I allegedly hacked into their computers, then, we're even?

FBI: Not quite even pal. The president of Pottawatomie Mutual Bank is a personal friend of the President and this matter has come to the attention of President O'Bomber. He wants to appoint you as Chief of the White House Committee on Computer Science and Technology; but only if you "agree" to return the $300,000 to the bank, "agree" to help the bank with their computer firewall problem and "agree" to pay the income taxes on the $90,000 you'll have left over. That's "income" pal and everyone has to "agree" to pay their "income taxes". Your sentence in this matter will be to "agree" to serve at least 4 years in the White House. It's take it or leave it time.

Robber: Well, this is all just an "innocent mistake", an "error in judgement" and a "lapse" on the part of my accountant. Lots of people make these kinds of "mistakes".

Of course, I'll "agree" to give $300,000 to the bank for the mistake and "agree" to help the bank with their firewall problem, "agree" to pay the "income taxes" I owe due to the mistake my accountant made on my tax returns. I'll also "agree" to serve in the White House as a "public servant" of the people.

Can we "agree" America a great place or what?