Tom Daschle Is A Repeat Tax-Cheat Offender

Listening to Tom Daschle’s explanation of “forgetting” he had $88K in unreported 2007 income and a quarter million dollars worth of car services you could almost believe he was just too dumb to understand what the other hundreds of millions of Americans understand. But then you’d be neglecting to consider that this isn’t Tom Daschle’s first tax cheat session. Daschle is a repeat offender:

In 2004, during his failed re-election campaign, it was revealed that Daschle claimed a property-tax homestead exemption for his $1.9 million Washington, D.C. mansion. The problem was that in order to claim the tax exemption, Daschle had to certify under penalty of perjury that the mansion was his primary residence. Daschle did so, and got the tax exemption, but there was a problem. Daschle had voted in South Dakota, the state he represented, by absentee ballot, listing a South Dakota address as his primary residence. South Dakota primary residency also was a requirement of Daschle running for office. When the homestead issue surfaced, accusations were made that Daschle or someone on his behalf altered the records to make it appear that only Daschle’s wife has applied for the exemption.

Ahh, so once again Daschle was cheating the IRS which entailed cheating each and every one of us as well. And still, Obama stands by yet another corrupt politician for nomination to his cabinet of crooks. Read the full article here.

Update: NYTimes is calling for Daschle’s nom withdrawal.

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