{"id":465,"date":"2009-02-03T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/03\/pay-your-taxes-part-two\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:47:00","slug":"pay-your-taxes-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/03\/pay-your-taxes-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay your taxes, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Obama appointee &#8211; Nancy Killefer &#8211; has been hit by tax problems.  <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been forced to withdraw her appointment as chief performance officer after it was revealed that she hadn&#8217;t paid employment taxes for her domestic help.<\/p>\n<p>I think this embarrassing situation opens a rare window into the world of high-earning executives, who skirt the lines when it comes to paying their fair share of taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly more enforcement is needed.  Democrat, Republican &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t matter.  <\/p>\n<p>But for Democrats, who generally favor higher taxes, it&#8217;s particularly uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe that government can be a force for good, then it&#8217;s your responsibility to help pay for it.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if the issue short-circuits Tom Daschle&#8217;s nomination next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Obama appointee &#8211; Nancy Killefer &#8211; has been hit by tax problems. She&#8217;s been [&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\/465"}],"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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}