Saturday, October 08, 2011

41 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes -- and they're not alone

This is old news (Sept 2010) so the figure may be higher now:
"Federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the IRS. As in, 1,000 x one million dollars. All this political jabber about giving middle-class Americans a tax cut. Thousands of feds have been giving themselves one all along -- unofficially. And these tax scofflaws include more than three dozen folks who work for the president with that newly decorated Oval Office." Maybe the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd could expand their horizons to the federal gov't which created the regulations they are protesting.

41 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes -- and they're not alone - latimes.com
I sort of backed into this story (which I think I've written about before) because I came across a tax law professor Alex Raskolnikov who had written a paper that began, "Crime and punishment. . . and so forth." If you are familiar with Russian literature, Raskolnikov was the main character in Crime and Punishment, a novel by Dostoevsky.

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