I don't remember hearing this in Obama's SOTU the other night. Do you? Pay our fair share? That's rich... The bigger picture
involves the $3.4 BILLION in back taxes owed by Federal employees as a whole.
How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no
matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.
Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some
well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.
Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.
A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama's executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back
taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven't paid any share, let alone their fair share.
The IRS' 2010 delinquent tax revelations come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees' tax compliance. Turns out, an
awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not paying their own income taxes.
The report finds that thousands of federal employees owe the country more than $3.4 billion in back taxes. That's up 3% in the past year.
That scale of delinquency could annoy voters, hard-pressed by their own costs, fears and stubbornly high unemployment despite Joe Biden's many
promises.
Even within Congress ...The tax offenders include employees of the U.S. Senate who help write the laws imposed on everyone else. They owe $2.1
million. Workers in the House of Representatives owe $8.5 million, Department of Education employees owe $4.3 million and over at Homeland Security,
4,697 workers owe about $37 million. Active duty military members owe more than $100 million.
WOW!!
he Treasury Department, where Obama nominee Tim Geithner had to pay up $42,000 in his own back taxes before being confirmed as secretary, has
1,181 other employees with delinquent taxes totaling $9.3 million.
As usual, the Postal Service, with more than 600,000 workers, has the most offenders (25,640), who also owe the most -- almost $270 million. Veterans
Affairs has 11,659 workers owing the IRS $151 million while the Energy Department that was so quick to dish out more than $500 million to the Solyndra
folks has 322 employees owing $5 million.
The country's chief law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, has 2,069 employees who are nearly $17 million behind in taxes. Like Operation
Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder has apparently missed them too.
Here's a novel approach. Instead of inciting class warfare and looking to throw the book at the super rich... How about enforcing the law and
collecting from the deadbeats on the Federal tit. $3.4 Billion is nothing to sneeze at!!! Fair share my !@#
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