Recently after an extended investigation The Washington Post found out that 41 White House aides owe the Internal Revenue Service $831,000 in back taxes. This however is not all that was found, in total across the United States federal employees owe a billion dollars in back taxes to the IRS. Federal employees neglecting their taxes gives rise to the simple fact that the economic state of the United States is at a low point. For the people that go to work everyday and struggle to pay their taxes when big time federal employees feel exempt from doing the same, is shameful. President Obama has even tried to appoint a man, Timothy Geithner, who had thousands of dollars in IRS back taxes to the position of the Secretary of the Treasury. With the US in such economic turmoil having government employees not paying their own taxes, the United States takes another blow on how they are perceived around the world and at home. And that hope that the American people felt for an economic turnaround took a huge blow as well, with the people running the show failing to carry out a fundamental practice of a US citizen.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/09/congress-taxes-irs.html
Ben Rains
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