{"id":462,"date":"2009-01-31T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/31\/memo-to-aspiring-obama-ites-pay-your-dang-taxes\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:27:00","slug":"memo-to-aspiring-obama-ites-pay-your-dang-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/31\/memo-to-aspiring-obama-ites-pay-your-dang-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to aspiring Obama-ites: Pay your dang taxes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Tim Geithner; now Tom Daschle &#8211; two men called to service in Barack Obama&#8217;s Best-and-Brightest administration who had to do some serious last minute tax tweaking.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my advice to all of you up-and-coming apparatchiks:  Tell your tax-preparers to color inside the lines.  No fuzzy math, no questionable deductions.<\/p>\n<p>One more observation.  <\/p>\n<p>With this percentage of tax-fudgers in Obama&#8217;s cabinet, I wonder how many of the nation&#8217;s elite are shirking their legal share of the tax burden?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the IRS needs a new enforcement wing devoted exclusively to the rich.  Call it the Future Office-holders Vetting Division.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we don&#8217;t really have a budget deficit at all?  Just a lot of uber-rich folks who need to &#8220;adjust&#8221; their returns for the last decade&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Tim Geithner; now Tom Daschle &#8211; two men called to service in Barack Obama&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}