Not Another one! Obama Nominee Ron Kirk is a Tax Cheat

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, a cabinet appointee of President Obama’s has tax problems. Just for the record todayis March 3rd and the latest criminal nominated to serve under President Obama is Ron Kirk who was tabbed by the president to be his U.S. trade representative. You are not reading an old post, this is not a re-post, this is yet another tax cheat who was appointed by President Obama.

Now let me get a little more serious, this is appointee number four for the president who has tax problems. Ron Kirk forgot to claim almost $40,000 in income over five years as well as accidentally claiming to large of a deduction for some basketball tickets that he received, about $17,000 worth.

The committee found that Kirk failed to report as income $37,750 in honoraria collected for 16 speaking engagements at Austin College over those three years. One year, he deducted honoraria from four events as charitable donations though he hadn’t reported them as income, according to the committee report. He also deducted too much for the cost of tickets to see the NBA Mavericks, reporting the entire $17,382 as business expenses, the report says.

The article goes on to say that he has agreed to pay the IRS the nearly $10,000 he owes them. First of all, he agrees to pay them what he owes them? Did he have a choice? Doesn’t he have to pay them?

Secondly, isn’t it strange how he suddenly has seen the light and agreed to pay the back taxes he owed now that he is up for a position in the Obama administration. Would he have agreed to pay these taxes if her weren’t? I don’t think so.

This is how the White House spokesman categorized this latest tax cheat and his problems:

The mayor is working with the Finance Committee on a few minor issues

Owing the IRS $10,000 is a minor issue, that is according to the White House spokesman. Lets see how far you or I get with that line of defense of the IRS ever comes knocking on our door.

Needless to say, the administration doesn’t see this as a problem, they feel his nomination is still on course for approval. And it probably is, these politicians in Washington are held to a different standard than we are.

The problem is that the Democrats won back the house and senate in 2006 because of what they called the “Republican culture of corruption” and then they won the White House by promising to bring change to Washington. These nominees are in direct contrast to both, they continue the “culture of corruption” that Democrats railed against, and they trample any real chance that change was ever going to come to Washington under the Barack Obama administration.